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This Father’s Day printable coloring bundle created from my original illustrations comes with two printable Father’s Day greeting cards, two Father’s Day coloring sheets, an All About Dad activity sheet, and a set of coupons to color with a cute envelope to put them in! The bundle can be purchased from my Teachers Pay Teachers […]

 If you’re getting an error from KDP that your PDF is the wrong dimensions, the solution is easy! You can use Photoshop to crop each page to the correct size. I prefer the cropping method over resizing, since resizing can stretch your art and ruin the proportions. To resize your PDF pages in Photoshop, […]

I’ve gotten quite a few requests for personal zoom sessions related to uploading a kdp children’s book! So I decided to start offering it as a service. On the homepage of my website, you’ll see a link for Schedule Help Session. If you follow that link, you’ll get to a page where you can fill […]

If you want to watch Black Mirror, don’t start with the first episode! It’s not a good representation of what the other episodes are like, and it might prematurely turn you off of the series. Here are the ones you should watch, in the order that you should watch them. S03 E04 – San Junipero […]

In early 2017 I painted a mural for a boy who loves hunting and the outdoors. His bedroom was already in a camouflage theme. He wanted it to look like he was deep in the woods – his request was a big old tree, vines, and plants. This mural took me about 14 hours, and […]

I love my town of Erie, PA! It just doesn’t get enough loving in my opinion. I was born in Erie, I grew up in Florida, and I also lived in California for almost 5 years. Then I moved back to Erie to stay for good :) Here are all of the things I LOVE […]

As I’ve been thinking about the new year and where I want my art to go, the one big thing I can’t get out of my mind is creating a children’s book. I’ve been wanting to do one for quite some time and it’s been just sitting there in the back of my mind. So […]

When I started making magnets, I tried many different ways to package them (in packs of 4). I had the following problems: Magnets would shift inside the packaging Magnets would stick to each other If I put two packs of magnets close to each other, they’d stick to each other & thus get shifted around […]

The mural I illustrated for the Erie Zoo is finally up! There are still finishing touches to be added (frame, plants, leaf benches) so it is currently closed off to the public, but the panels are up and it is so amazing to see my art at such a huge scale! I started out drawing […]

  I was listening to Craftcast, a crafty podcast, last week while working on an illustration project. Allison Arden, the girl being interviewed, mentioned that she was able to mail an orange via USPS – with no packaging at all. I couldn’t believe it. So I had to try it out for myself! So, I […]