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Congrats. Hope he is doing well.

Congratulations! That's awesome!

Ummm, Laura... I might need to keep them a little bit long-you know, with a new baby and all...

I really wanted four, but two is aobut all I can handle! My friend just named her baby Owen James too!

Congrats Laura!!!

Congratulations! :D

Really sweet illustration.

Thanks Eric! Coming from you, I am honored! Love your work so much!! I've not posted in months as haven't had time! This one I just had to whip out and get up there, like it or not! NO more missing out on the fun at IF!

We've missed you! This is absolutely wonderful. Nothing like that moment in the world!

Thanks "doodlegirl" for the complements! Both of them! That you enjoy my illustrations and that you even noticed I'd been away! I adore your work as well - I LOVE simple lines !

This is amazing!! "Simple lines" that is so funny you'd say that - I've been thinking about that all week! I love your work - just lovely! I'm new getting into IF but I look forward to seeing more of your work!

So lovely! I love their cheery rosy cheeks :)

Aww! That's lovely! Great work :)

Thanks for the comments! I look forward to seeing everyone's work as well!!

Joyful and I think I could still enjoy having the small town!

Very nice. Good color palette and texture. Small towns are awesome.

What a fun idea and oh so cute!

What a fun idea and oh so cute!

it's very nice. i like your colours and shadows.

Wonderful- love the colors.

Valgal!

Got the AWESOME pic you sent! I LOVE IT!!! Especially 'cuz you know that winter is my favorite season and I endure summers biding my time for the first snow. I love the picture so much that it brought tears to my eyes. I'm going to bring it to work so everyone can enjoy it.

xoxox

--dd

Really charming!

Sweet card,Val!

Very cool. I love the detail on the clothes and the doll.

It glows with warmth!

Beautiful!

I just love the colors in this piece and the glowing warmth from the windows really draws you in. I want to see what's inside!

A whole town -- how fun! Love the small details.

Wow. I love this die cut idea. Great illo.

I love this card, wonderful colors and biberons!!!

Beautiful card. I love how your houses always exude such warmth! Another wonderful post!

So nice and clever. Is it possible to see them all together? I really like the idea of the card making a small town.

it's just lovely, vallie! :)))

CUTE! I would love to see them all displayed together...my son would like that, too...he loves the little houses at Christmas and such. He would have hours of fun playing with a town of cards! :) He's so creative anyway! Love this house and the colors you chose for it.

awesome valerie!

Fabulous, as always, Valerie!

Love it, Val - really strong yet cute image!

I was wondering what you'd do for baby!! I love this, so perfect!

I'm really enjoying the music loop and viewing your slide show :)

Really pretty! I love the idea of a die cut town.

Very sweet! Great soft colors.

Sweet sweet sweet!.. wonderful colors!.. and the baby clothes are so cute!.. =)

Lovely!

beautiful color pallette for this one! Cute

- and I really like the slide show you put together for your mom, what a cool idea!

Lovely idea. I'd like to see the whole set up of the small town.

This is fabulous. The colors are perfect for any baby and the storefront is just charming. Collecting one of your little villages is a great idea...one by one by one.

Dood! I'm gunna hop in and ride with that baby! I'll save a TON on GAS! Whoo hooooo!
xo

dood!

Perfect - I love the colours and the little washing line of clothes. Fabulous idea of collecting a whole town of your 'artytecture'.

You and your clever ideas! Do you ever tire of being awesome? I love that you have a town if you purchase all of them! This is gorgeous!

this is so lovely and i'm just imagining the whole set together..what a sweet town!

Awww... those extra cute little baby outfits are killing me :O

It's a gorgeous image, Val... as usual!

Delightful and fun! You create such beauty and warmth with your drawings. Lovely.

I love your theme of homes. Your colors are lovely!

Viva la nerds! I'd never heard that Dr. Seuss was the genius behind the term, either. He was such a Veronica.

Haha! Yes, he was!

Great post! I am a geek and a nerd! It is so funny how words change over the years. It used to be that geek was not a good thing to be. Now, true geekdom is admired. Thank goodness. I think I am finally in fashion! WooHoo!

BTW - absolutely LOVE your drawing. Nice work!

No, I didn't know about "nerd" and Dr. Seuss. How cool. Very nice drawing.

Kathleen,

Welcome, fellow nerd/geek! Geekdom is definitely THE fashion--heavy rectangular glasses are all the rage!

Decaf,
Yes, I found the word origin interesting as well. I remember reading that "Vanessa" wasn't a name until a writer made it up for his play.

And the second-grade me thanks both of you for saying nice things about my drawing!

Great picture!!! ;)

Danette...

Great drawing and what great cursive...Did you really know you wanted to be a writer at that young an age...

I use to have to "fake" my "A's"...I couldn't even tell you how many "F's" ended up "A's" before getting the report card home to mom and dad...grin...

I'm an ol' south paw, so my handwriting looks like something from outer space at times...grin...

I always wanted to be a writer. Hence the volumes of poetry and Peter Pan comics I created in grade school.

I also think I draw great stick men, but there's not much of a market for that.

You learn something new every day (if you're lucky!). I had no idea Dr. Seuss invented the word nerd but he gets 10,000+ cool points of doing so. It's weird which slang words never really age and which ones become hopelessly dated. I don't hear too many people saying 'groovy' anymore. Anyway. I wish I could see the pictures you posted!! They're showing up as a red x for me. :/ (ah the joys of the internet)

Danette,

Cool pic and great posting - I think the origin of words is just as interesting as the words we writers choose to use in our stories. Sometimes those outdated words make a comeback and sometimes they don't. They say everything in fashion comes back around every 30 years. So things popular in 1977 would be making a comeback now. Go figure -

my phrases that I use abundantly are - cool beans (heard it a while back, close to 10 years now and like it), no way, awesome (has now taken on a whole other meaning I think)- these are the ones I tend to use a lot when writing and speaking to folks. Sorry ya'll - I can't help it - oh well, see you all in the postings - E :)

! I can see the pictures now. Well worth the wait. :) It's so great (& your cursive was great, if mine was that readable when I was in the second grade, my teacher would've been much happier, I think).

Nerds rule.

And, I do remember those crayons. Also the cheap chalk ... the ones that crumbled when you tried to use them. Ah, the joys of having "thrifty" parents.

Courtney and E,
Yes, the word origins are definitely interesting.

Courtney, I've seen your wonderful photos, so I couldn't help but smile when you said my drawing was great! Again, the second-grade Danette thanks you and believes you! Haha!

Linda,
Haha! Thrifty parents, yes, that would be the diplomatic term!

Cute post! I never knew about the origin of nerd. But then again, Dr. Seuss was the king of making up words. Thanks for stopping by my blog! I like yours alot! Especially it's title.

Thank you, Ello. Yes, Dr. Seuss was THE king of making up words. That's part of the reason he received scathing rejection letters when trying to market his first book, some kind of alphabet book. Then a friend took a chance on him and published And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street. After that, it didn't matter what the critics said about his words--people loved his work.

I did not know that! See, I need friends like that!

This is great!! Love the drawing! And kudos for that good grade in writing :-) All I ever did in second grade was talk.