Welcome Sara Shirley, Dream Tale Puppets, & More

  We’d like to welcome a new marionette (above): Sara Shirley, made by the awesome craftsman, Rob Lauten. The only direction I gave Rob was a spec sheet with a handful of illustrations, my Czech marionette, Hurvinek, and a couple of marionette books and he made this incredible little creature … more on the Seeds…

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The Eleanor Courier Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1

Happy February! Click here for our first newsletter of 2022, Volume 2, Number 1! It’s a quick read! Our e-newsletter, The Eleanor Courier Journal, is a monthly publication about writing, illustration, and puppetry. Click here to view the first issue, here for the Vol. 1, No. 2, here for the Vol. 1, No. 3, and…

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Available Now: The Eleanor Courier Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4

Happy New Year! Click here for our latest newsletter– it takes only a minute or two to read. Our e-newsletter, The Eleanor Courier Journal, is a monthly publication about writing, illustration, and puppetry. Click here to view the first issue, here for the second issue, and here for the third issue. Please sign up to…

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New Logo Release: Walking Mall Poet

We are happy to announce the release of a new design – the logo and letterhead banner for Walking Mall Poet – featuring custom illustration and hand lettering, except for the characters within the circles, POET, set in Gills Sans Regular. They were a joy with whom to work. Check out their website: https://www.walkingmallpoet.com/

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Just Released: The Eleanor Courier Journal

We are pleased to announce the launch of our very first E-newsletter, The Eleanor Courier Journal, a monthly publication about writing, illustration, and puppetry. Click here to view the first issue, here for the second issue, and here for the third issue. Please sign up to subscribe if you like to receive future issues!

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Second Article Published in UNIMA-USA’s E-newsletter

It is exciting to share that UNIMA-USA published another article of mine in the fall issue of their member’s only quarterly e-newsletter (many thanks to Laurie Swygert at UNIMA-USA)! Check it out here too: “When students are involved with making crankies in teams they talk with one another and negotiate about what words and pictures…

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Everyday Saints

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Every Problem Has A Solution Quilt Project. The illustrated quilt-like square here is the result of my query, “how can I best use my skills as an illustrator and graphic designer to be useful in the time of the pandemic, climate change – and now also –…

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Solutions

This week, I am going to use a process that is part of a project at our Quaker Meeting – the Every Problem Has a Solution Quilt Project – developed by Friends Cameron Hughes and Barbara Lake. In a nutshell, participants come up with a problem. Using queries of some of the Quaker testimonies, you…

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A Sprout

A couple of weeks ago, I put some queries out to the universe: how can I best use my skills as an illustrator and graphic designer to be useful in the time of the pandemic and climate change? Is there a variation of these skills that could help? How could these skills become essential? Although…

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Sowing Seeds

A Friend from Quaker Meeting recently shared with me, The Soil Story. It’s a short, well-crafted, and engaging video produced by Kiss the Ground – a 501(c)3 increasing societal awareness about the extraordinary benefits of healthy soil. Watch The Soil Story. In a time where my services as a graphic designer (print) and illustrator do…

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