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 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 2, 2013 – 10:36 pm
The planning for Addison’s first birthday has started and I’m trying to determine what kind of planner I want to be. How much DIY projects and what will her bday traditions be? I was researching online and there were so many planning lists. One of the items on a list was “don’t compete with other moms” and that was comforting to read. I am a busy person and so is Raul so I am constantly checking in with myself about whether what I want to do is for A’s special day or am I trying to compete with another mom out there.
There will be some DIY projects and I’m excited to see them finished. Everything can’t be created from scratch though and I’m okay with that.
Did you learn a lot from your baby’s first birthday? Anything you would do differently? I’m all ears.
P.S.
Where did the time go? I can’t believe she will have been here for a year in just a few more weeks.
posted by erika on March 29, 2013 – 11:15 pm
We have big plans so far. We’ll possibly go to a community Easter egg hunt if we can get up early enough. Baby-cakes is only 10 months old so she won’t be heartbroken if we don’t make it. Would be fun though. My parents are coming tomorrow and spending the night so Raul and I can go celebrate a friend’s birthday downtown. I can not wait!! We are “pub crawling” which involves walking from pub to pub. Cocktails and food? It’s been awhile and I don’t care, just glad to be getting out at night, with adults and having a good time. Then Sunday will be Easter grub at my parent’s house.
Hoping to get a chance to make these marbleized Easter eggs at some point too.
We’ll see!
Wishing you and yours a very happy Easter weekend.
