The Toymaker's Journal

My cat at midnight. There's no food in his bowl. I have been judged and found lacking. Peak disappointment.

36 years ago I married a guy. He reads books, does dishes and can fix anything. Sometimes life just gives you a win.

I made a page of tiny paintings, cut them into stamps and pasted them into my Little Book of Ideas.... for no other reason then it made me happy to do so.

Do kids deserve to have a life now?

“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” ~ Walt Whitman

What was your biggest takeaway from college?

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

So, for reasons, my art is being shown in at the Shanghai International Illustration Art Expo 2026GAF. I am totally stoked about it and is something I never would have predicted when I was younger.

“Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way"

"Happiness comes through doors that you didn't even know that you left open"

    Of the world for ever, it seems.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. ~ Dr. Seuss 

My friend made this from a painting I did of Baby Sam. I hope you have a wonderful week

The best strawberries I've ever eaten and it's February. What is this magic?

Actually went out for a walk. “The bee’s work is a quiet reminder of the sweetness that comes from effort.”