off to nyc next week. lots a crazy cool stuff happening and i fiiinally get to meet the amazingly talented and inspiring illustrators that i happen to share an agent with. i'm sooooo psyched! fingers crossed i don't get lost in macys...again!  :-)

i painted, i sketched, i wrote. i ate and ran like a horse. and um, drank like a lil fishie! "-) but i DID work, too. i still can't believe it's over...and that we're racing towards fall already. sigh.. doodles for BETTY...doodles for THE KIDDIE TABLE...see? work!

  i just wanted to be mork, as a kid. make everybody laugh and go to another planet as maybe that's where i came from, all along? sigh...xoxoxoxo, robin. 

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!

a very sweet story...about a lonely kid. not sure when it's coming out but my guess is...2015? ©COPYRIGHT 2014. THOMAS NELSON BOOKS, HCK.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

illustrated of course. just launched it today. take a peek, if ya like!  a busy busy work summer so i'll try to post work updates here when i can. :-) runfrogrun!

go monkey go came today! my eldest, who does 2000 - 5000 piece ravensburger's happily obliged to put it together for me in um, less than a minute or so. :-)

oh man...where is spring? 

and i'm doing THIS today, to earn my box of dark chocolate!  "-) and yeah...a bit tough to get around these days. all the mountains o snow... sigh.

sigh...the TOUGHEST bosses all year. my own family. "I want to have a TARDIS!" Um... "We should all be ELVES!" Ohhh kay. "I don't want to wear an elf hat." Alright, I'll give you something else. "Do I have to wear elf tights?" OMG! YES! YES! YOU ARE AN ELF! YOU CAN'T WEAR JEANS! all i wanted was to be relaxing, wearing my new sneaks...NOT working. and since i'm the one who holds the

the next book in the series. put to bed and out to stores spring 2014!  think this is going to be my fav, so far...lots of super goofiness and awww! kindergarteners!  "-) ALL IMAGES ©COPYRIGHT 2013, 2014, EGMONT BOOKS, USA/UK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

it's my midwest roots. winter isn't winter w/o... so, i'll make my own. :-)

just in time for last minute tday ideas! "-) THEY DRAW AND COOK is just a super site and the talent (and recipes!) are out of this world. i'm so happy to be in one of their books! 

i'll get to some new halloween pieces this weekend but for now...BOO! fan art - my homage to the AMAZING DAN KRALL!  :-) yay, dan krall! :-)))

i'm illustrating a mom, mopping her kitchen floor when MY kitchen floor has been completely and utterly ignored by me, unless i happen to step in a puddle of something my kids forgot to wipe up. "Hey! Who spilled something in here and didn't clean it up?" but, i can't get to that, just now, as i'm illustrating a mom, mopping her kitchen floor. maybe i could get up @ 3am and do some

call it my "scooby do" period. (jinkies!) but i like where it's heading as now we're in the wimpy kid, capt. undies camp—cartoony, silly, goofy! book 5 (the old style) just hit the stores, book 6, this one...some time in spring 2014? i think? ALL IMAGES ©COPYRIGHT 2013, EGMONT BOOKS, USA/UK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

well, not me, personally, but my illustration GO, MONKEY, GO! wonder how many pieces i'll be? my son, the puzzlemaster? is thrilled. this is BIG time, baby, @ my house.  "-) look for it in toy stores, book stores, zoos?  etc.

been a crazy-busy summer - have a happy friday!  :-)

happy 101 degrees @ the beach today! seeeeriously! a good time to catch a fish!

that makes 5 so far, in this series. i feel like i packed lunches for these 4 all year and made organic doggie treats for sparky.  "-) here's some interior sneak peeks. i think it hits the stores this fall. just in time for halloween! working on book 6 for the summer. :-) ALL IMAGES ©COPYRIGHT 2013, EGMONT BOOKS, USA/UK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

:-)  gonna ride on this one alllllll summer!  "-)

  this was fun...needlepoint and wildflowers. "-)