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 !
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things i wish i'd done for christmas


So these are a few of the many things I just didn't get around to doing for Christmas this year, but I wanted to!
  1. April's super cool ornament challenge
  2. print downloadable gifttags from amy karol
  3. photograph my christmas baking like amy karol
  4. send out christmas cards. . . i designed them (see above), i just didn't print, address and send them.
  5. quilt some potholders to go with the cookie cutters we gave to siblings this year
  6. build an upside-down snowman
  7. make these cool pincushions from Heather Bailey for all my crafty friends
  8. host a bad holiday sweater party
  9. christmasy cupcakes
  10. make a christmas tree skirt out of the beautiful fabric a friend brought back from China last year. . . (see below)

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Unknown said…
I love the Christmas card-even if it didn't get sent in the mail.
7:12 PM
April said…
k, you can still do the ornament challenge. My new camera came via UPS man about 20 minutes ago and then I'm re-doing all my ornament pics (I left them all out for this purpose). And I have a friend who did an ugly-sweater party and I thought it was the coolest idea ever! Your Christmas card is so cute too, you are so creative!!! Let me know if MishaLulu throws in any 12-18m boy items in with your loot! SO JEALOUS!
7:14 PM
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