Let's peel back these layers!

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juliannlaw Here is a closeup of the endpapers in my debut picture book, THE WORKD’S LONGEST SOCK. I work digitally in Adobe Photoshop but the program doesn’t do it all for me! I knit all the pixels by hand! Haha! I do have things I do to help me work quickly and efficiently, though, like using layers. Here you get to see me take off those layers one by one till we are back at nothing but a background. The World's Longest Sock is now available on  Amazon ,  Barnes and Noble ,  Target , or wherever you  buy books !

some more birthday pics

So, we had a birthday party for Lucy. . . a while ago. I'm running behind on my posts. I'm not going to even try to catch up. But I need to post these great pics from my friend, Katherine, who has such an amazing eye for a shot and obviously knows her way around a camera.

The party was carnival themed. . . and we served








We had a photo-booth for all the clowns. . .


Cupcakes. . . which Lucy LOVES. The candles? Not so much.

We also had a jump house/waterslide which Lucy still talks about.


It was huge. I guess I estimated wrong when they told me the dimensions over the phone. It took up most of the backyard!

Ned (aka Oliver's Dad) made balloon animals. . .


We had a few other carnival games around for the kids to do. A fishing pond which mostly held ducks. . .


A ball toss. . . knock down the tower of cans. (I'd been saving the cans we used for about a month. I only had to open one extra to complete the pyramid. What can I say, I guess we eat a lot of black beans!)



Opening gifts. . .




And best of all, we had a bunch of cute guests . . .


And after all that excitement, Lucy couldn't sleep. She was up till 4:00 am!

Comments

Kate said…
what a blast! you guys are so much fun.
Unknown said…
That is a cool party. Totally impressed. Someday I might have to copy some of those ideas.
katherine said…
oh, that was such a great party!!! that little luce . . . love her.
The Phipps: said…
love the pics. it was a great party. i need to go to your link and get those pics. great job!

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