Welcome to 2017 (a little belated) ! I thought I’d kick off the year on the blog by thinking back about the end of 2016. My year’s end was full of activity; between holiday prep, many cookie baking sessions with my four year old, and holiday meal planning, I made a bunch of ornaments for lovely […]

Last December, the lovely Vanessa Dina at Chronicle Books got in touch with me. She asked if I was interested in working on this gem of a project: illustrations for a holiday cookie cookbook with one recipe for each day of the advent calendar. I was two weeks in to having our second daughter. As I remember, […]

Just over two weeks ago, we became the proud parents of our second daughter! Though we had almost the entire year to prepare ourselves for this change, nothing could prepare us for the overwhelming joy of the moment we got to meet her. She was born the day before Thanksgiving, and we brought her home the […]