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The Bravest Adventure Book Release!!

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Exciting news friends! I have a new children’s book out – The Bravest Adventure – published by Archway publishing. My sister-in-law and I made a book together and it’s beautiful! I have been just dying to share it with you, but until yesterday there was no good way to purchase it. But, it is officially available on Amazon now! There are enough photos and sketches here for several posts, but I have so many favorite pages that I had trouble narrowing it down and I wanted to share some of the process behind the illustrations. The story is poetically written and the perfect inspiration for all young adventurers. I can’t wait for you to read it.

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Here are some of the sketches, process pictures, and final pages of the book to spark your interest. Hope you like it!

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2016 “Collection” Illustrated Wall Calendar is here!

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If you remember, our June theme was “Collection”. One of the project we worked on was to make this calendar for 2016! And it is finished! You can purchase it here in our shop (or here at my etsy shop.)
Basically the idea is this, each beautiful page is made up tiny hand-illustrated drawings/paintings around a theme.
The months are printed on heavy high quality paper and are perforated to become 12×12 limited edition art prints to frame + keep.

So when you are finished using the calendar, you still have twelve lovely art prints!
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I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the behind the scenes process of creating this.

It involved drawing LOTS of tiny little paintings
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Here is a photo of the girls helping me on January’s rocks and gems.

The finished calendar was printed, bound, and perforated by Color Pro Print in Fort Collins. I think they did just an amazing job.
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July 2015 Calendar Free Desktop and iPhone Wallpaper

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Pouring over atlas maps, planning destinations, summer road trips, July is about heading off on adventure. Pulling out your trusty compass and seeing where it leads.  Here is a Map themed desktop wallpaper for your computer and phones. For the iphone wallpaper, navigate to this page on your phone and then click and hold on the iphone images. Select ‘Save image to camera roll’. Then from your camera roll set your home screen/lock screen. Enjoy!

For iPhones:

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For Desktops (Click the small thumbnail below to download the large sized file):
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For more inspiration for July, check out our past July posts. – including 4th of July playlists, great BBQ recipes, and a road trip song mix.

June Calendar Free Desktop and iPhone Wallpaper

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Happy June everyone! School is out, the birds are singing, everything is green and bright, so here’s to soaking up the sunshine and collecting the bits of summer. Our theme for June is “Collection”, so here is a collection of some of my favorite tools! Enjoy!  For the iphone wallpaper, navigate to this page on your phone and then click and hold on the iphone images. Select ‘Save image to camera roll’. Then from your camera roll set your home screen/lock screen. For the desktop, click on the small thumbnail below to view the large size image. Note – the illustrations here are from an old french dictionary. So, thanks old french dictionary. You are awesome.

For iPhones:
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