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Real Name: Kristin Shell Member Since: March 27, 2008 Last Signed In: December 04, 2008 Blog Views: 631 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
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The Fairytale Town Printed Story.... Meeting with the children's book writer.... Gaining Security Writing and Illustrating Suprise Guest - Speedy Taco Salad Spontaneous Outing Start Kindergarten early or later? Fishing with Him How to Build a Log Cabin March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 Family Keepsake Storybook I'm offering a nice price for illustrations for those that are writing or have written children's stories. The price for printing a family keepsake storybook w/cd format is $20. Check out my website www.ecrucartwheel.com
"Mommy, Do You Think of Me." Everything is coming along nicely with the illustrations for "Mommy, Do You Think of Me". I have already finished drawing the illustrations. I'm getting ready to add the coloring to 14 illustrations. Once the printing is finished. We will save the illustration layout on a disc for future copies to be printed. *** Story Illustrations If you are still interested in illustrating let me know. I can schedule a time for your illustrations to be done. (Which, a lot of the stories entered into the contest should) *** Charlie, The Lonely Dolphin I'm also wrapping up the illustrations for "Charlie, The Lonely Dolphin" Siri Backer is the writer preparing to publish her story about a lonely dolphin finding friendship with a tour boat guide. *** 
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As a mom of four boys, I have become quite the Entomologist. My boys are typically fascinated with every naturally occurring thing on Earth. We would discover the most unusual bugs. Like, an arachnid that looked like half scorpion and spider. It didn't have a stinger but, it ran super fast and scared the heck out of me. My second son, in particular, is an amazing character. I call him my "Huckleberry Finn Boy" because he spends all of his time outdoors wandering around barefoot. He has this freaking talent for finding the smallest and most interesting things. A lot of the time it's discovering unusual bugs and insects. We frequently go to the Internet to learn about the nature of the things he brings home or discovers. He is on a quest to discover the most unusual insect. On this particular morning, I was out watering the garden when my son came out and walked into a strange looking bug crawling slowly on the patio. This insect looked like it was a shiny, emerald colored larva with four legs and crab claws for hands! They kept running around and hollering, "Is it an alien insect from outer space? Is it an Alien insect, Is it an Alien insect?" We quickly scooped it up in a cup and watched it. Wondering what the heck it was. I had no clue. It was the creepiest bug I had ever seen. I've seen many. So, I told them we would try and research it on ask.com. As I scoured the Internet, searching for what kind of bug it was. When my son came screaming upstairs yelling, "It's moulting, it's crawling out of its skin!" Eww. Great, now it has wings. Put a lid on it before it starts to fly around my house. We found out it was a North American Cicada. They are those loud singing summer bugs you hear when it is especially hot. Their song can be 120db loud. It also stays underground for 17 Years!! With this sudden heat wave. I guess it decided it was time to crawl out. Apparently, the "bug watchers" document "the broods" that are deposited underground and calculate the amount of time for it to emerge. Ours was deposited sometime around 1957. It made us remember about the time he brought home a silk worm. We watched it live through it's life cycle. From, being a silk worm, eating mulberry leaves to spinning its silk cocoon. When it emerged from it's cocoon it was a beautiful powdery white moth with fern like antenna. It was beautiful. We learned that silkworms only live on Mulberry trees. When they turn to adult moths they don't eat, they procreate and then, die. Our silkworm moth passed away. We still have her as a pretty, powdery-white specimen sitting on a leaf. Like, in a museum on a shelf. Next to their very extensive mineral and rock collection. (all typical boy collections) Did you know those large hovering insects we call "mosquito hawks" aren't mosquito hawks at all. They are harmless. They don't even eat mosquito's. They don't eat anything. They don't have the mouth parts. They are called Crane Flies. They emerge as adults, procreate and die. Just like the Silk Worm moth. We let our Cicada free. Into the tree where it was supposed to go. He was very excited to know that he discovered a very unusual bug. He had to take some pictures to document his new discovery. I recently had the pleasure of submitting a picture for an art calling from the Asylum Gallery based here in Sacramento. They ask local artists and artists around the world to submit a piece of artwork based on a chosen theme. This year the chosen theme is "Global Warming: A Hot Time in the Old Town". All artists are given a couple of months to submit their work through the mail or the Internet. The art show will be exhibited May 24th to June 22nd and a reception held on June 14th for Sacramento's 2nd Saturday festivities. The Asylum Gallery is located at 170 Southgate Road Sacramento, CA 95815 USA The Asylum Gallery is an artist-run space that is dedicated to showing the best of contemporary art by regional artists and to giving back to the community. All of the art shown will be sold for $5 and a percentage the proceeds given to the Women's Wisdom Project. Asylum Gallery will donate 30% of sales proceeds to the Women's Wisdom Project, a nonprofit program of the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services. Along with the themed art showing. The gallery will also be featuring handmade jewelery to be shown and available for purchase. Actress and Artist Cynthia Burdick will be featuring her Originally Handmade work called "CynStones". Cynthia uses semi-precious stones, pearls and swarofski crystals in her beautifully designed necklace, bracelet and earing collections. More about mail art? Check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... More about Asylum Gallery: www.AsylumGallery.net By the way... I was not aware that ALL of the pictures uploaded onto this site were publicly shown. After creating an album, I was surprised to see them floating around on the home page. lol. I thought I was creating a personal album. I don't know what happened. So, I guess everyone is getting an exclusive look at the book illustrations I'm working on. lol. :) |
