easter!

Happy Easter! Hope yours was this exciting:

Emmie even got in on the action.

And if the candy eggs and the chocolate bunnies weren't enough, we made an Easter cake just because Lucy said she'd never had a layered cake before. Easter is a pretty good excuse to indulge your children, right? Emmie got to suck on peeps, but those pics didn't turn out as well.

Gone are the days of the pretty smiles or candid shots. . . Lucy has become a poser.

This little doll, though, needs a full-time camera crew to get all the darling moments.

Happy Easter!

if these old walls could speak. . .

. . . they'd tell fantastic stories of medieval court life and dragons and castles!

I just saw these fantastic shadow puppets at Kate's Paperie but of course they are sold out! Wouldn't it be fun to make some though? Lucy's into pirates these days. . . I could design a set of pirate shadow puppets. . . add that to the list of projects I would love to do but probably never will. Seriously.

semi-finals!

Can you spot my little bears? They're the second one from the top right corner! I'm a semi-finalist! Woot woot! This has been a fun challenge to work on. There were 968 final entries and

those were narrowed down to 75 semi-finalists.

Thanks for all your input, friends. I really love the spacey robot one, too, but I just didn't think it was quite ready. I want to keep playing with it a little. So I went with my gut and entered the bears against the blue/gray background.

If you'd like to vote (please, please, pretty please!?!) go to the Spoonflower website contest tab and vote for any and all the ones you like. . . click on them and they turn green. The submit vote button is on the 5th page. You have till April 6 to vote, but why wait? Do it today!