A Recipe for Snow

We’ve been waking up to snow all week. This island on the west coast doesn’t get a lot of snowy days, and even though this winter has been colder and snowier than most, it’s still enough of a novelty that snowy wake-ups are awe-filled moments. Norman...

Stubbornness

I recently listened to an illustrator describe the tools she had used to produce a picture book – “graphite pencils, watercolour, collage, old photographs…and stubbornness.’ Ah. Yes.     Picture books may look simple. In fact, the simpler they look or seem,...

So far.

It has been four and a half months since our littlest (and last!) was born. I thought you might like to know how we’re getting on…     Throughout the pregnancy this baby felt very different to the other two. We didn’t know her gender, so that was a...