posted by erika on May 17, 2013 – 7:14 am
Happy Friday!! This week my debut book, Queen Quail is Quiet: and other ABC Tongue Twisters was released for e-readers for Kindle and in print and I can’t stop skipping around.
This book teaches the alphabet by illustrating each letter using each sound of every letter. Younger children will learn to associate the colorful letter with the sound and older children will enjoy wrapping their mouths around the funny, tongue-twisting text.
What do you think about a Queen Quail is Quiet giveaway? Here’s the deal:
1) Leave a comment on this post any time between now and 11:59 PM EST May 24 to be entered.
2) Want to up your chances? Post about the giveaway to either Twitter or Facebook and that counts as a second entry (just let me know in the comments). Or if Instagram is more your speed, write “Queen Quail is Quiet” on a piece of paper, take a photo of your masterpiece and tag it with #queenquailbook.
3) I’ll choose the winner randomly using this tool.
4) The winner will get one digital download (works with Kindle, the app, etc) of the book.
Good luck!!
posted by erika on May 15, 2013 – 5:08 pm
Queen Quail is Quiet: and other ABC Tongue Twisters came out today for e-readers for Kindle and in print!
Queen Quail is Quiet grew out of my love of learning and drawing. I wanted to be a little different to approaching learning the alphabet. Creating a sentence illustrating each sound for every letter sounded challenging. I started out by thinking of words for the letters and then forming a sentence I could illustrate. Sketching of thumbnail ideas came next and was much easier to do once I realized this would no longer be just a project, but a book. Most of the sketching was just on plain computer paper and once I refined the sketches into final artwork, I scanned in the images onto my computer.
To read more, go to one of my friend’s blogs where I completed guest posts this week. Much thanks to PBJunkies and Charlotte Cooke !!
posted by erika on May 12, 2013 – 4:49 pm
Today is my first Mother’s Day as a mum and I love it. Thank you for the greatest joy Addy.
Enjoying the day with my daughter, mom, MIL and fam. Just wanted to take a moment to wish a happy happy Mother’s Day to all of those women who make your little ones feel empowered and special.
You truly make the world go round.
posted by erika on May 1, 2013 – 8:27 pm
So you guys, I have pretty big news. I can’t believe I am typing this actually. Means it is really real in a way.
The project I have been talking about forever, is that I have a book coming out. I am PUBLISHED. If you have been a long-time follower, you know I have had a pet alphabet project and it went through many different forms. But now it is going to finally grow up to be a book. Available in print and for e-readers through Amazon.com.
I am so excited.
The book is called Queen Quail is Quiet: and other ABC Tongue Twisters, it is an alphabet book where each letter demonstrates the sound of each letter throughout a sentence. Like, for the letter L the sentence is “Lemon Licks the Lollipop”. I am the author and illustrator.
I hope it makes my baby girl even more interested in reading and I hope it makes its way into your kid lit libraries as well. The book should launch May 15, definitely this month. Here is the link for pre-sale for Kindle.
Somebody pinch me, please!
posted by erika on April 29, 2013 – 11:24 pm
I have been killing projects left and right. One of those projects was getting everything together for my baby girl’s first birthday in a little less than three weeks. I wanted to do something different and add my own design as well. Didn’t think I would be able to do it but her birthday falls in spring and then bunnies came to mind and then “Some Bunny is turning ONE” appeared. I’m happy with the invites and since they are out now, I can share with you. These were created in AI and I was able to make my handwriting into a vector illustration for the type.
Plans are still underway but I wanted to document some progress.
I’ll tell you more about the other project VERY soon.
posted by erika on April 8, 2013 – 11:48 pm
Filed under Handmade, Prints
A long time ago I painted a watercolor of green leaves and someone had suggested I make a print out of it. There is a great site called Spoonflower where you can submit designs and they will turn those designs into fabric. So fast forward probably three years later and I have made my first fabric. I love how it looks and the quality is just better than I imagined. There is a blizzard coming so I scanned in the fat quarter proof I ordered.
What do you think? So now I have one print for sale and I can’t wait to make more. Whenever I can get more time I want to learn how to screen-print as well. Never done it and would love to see what it’s like.
