They’re creepy and they’re kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They’re all together ooky,
The Addams Family.
Beginner
A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda
Happy Mother’s Day
Lesson
Bicycle
Easter Buffet
I…. in no way, condone the consumption of Easter bunnies!
Happy Earth Day!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6650219631867189375#
* I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please;
But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots,
Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits,
Happily eating Truffula fruits.
Now, since you’ve chopped the trees to the ground
There’s not enough Truffula fruit to go ’round!
And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies
Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.
* Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
_Dr. Seuss
Lets teach our children to speak for the trees and celebrate our earth everyday!
Houston SCBWI Conference 2011
So every year I write a little about the conference right after I’ve attended, but this year I seem to have procrastinated for lack of words..or photographs… or exhaustion maybe. I don’t know.
I won’t give you the line up or the deets of everyone’s talks. There are plenty of blogs that have already covered that. Besides, I don’t want to spoil it for you should you get the opportunity to hear the wonderful speakers that were there! http://www.scbwi-houston.org/calendar/2011-conference-the-art-of-book-craft/. I will tell you though, how I felt at the conference.
I’ve been very busy this year with my first illustrated book, I See Animals Sleeping coming out in June 2011, a completed book dummy and working to get my portfolio in order for the conference, So I felt tired and a little anxious. Isn’t there always a little anxiety when you show your portfolio? You might as well be showing your heart… but there is was. My quirky heart… I mean portfolio!
I had my portfolio review with Laurent Linn, who I must say, is the nicest and most intuitive reviewer I’ve ever experienced. He gave me ideas and directions and confirmed some things for me. I needed to hear what he had to say!
And you know what… I won the portfolio competition! …. and now… my head is full of all kinds of ideas…. and some are … well kind of quirky!