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My Playful Penguin sculptures are featured on page 104 in Art Doll Quarterly
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About Me
An artist who aspires to become a children's book illustrator. Stays young at heart and an avid daydreamer. When the weather permits, I enjoy visiting/biking on the nature trail near my house. Visiting the trail has brought me many hours of enjoyment and relaxation. My camera is usually by my side while on the trail. I like to try to find the small and unnoticeable as subjects for my photos. And of course flowers and plant life encompass many of my subjects.I take pride in creating items with quality craftsmanship. I earned my BFA degree at UWO with an emphasis in drawing and sculpture. While attending school, I discovered my love of watercolors and sculpting with Apoxie Sculpt. This is when and where Lilly the Ladybug took shape and blossomed into a variety of subjects for my work. Both Lilly and I hope you enjoy the work of Lilly Bug Studio and discover, "the wonder of new things."
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Tag Archives: handmade
Handmade Holidays in 2011
This year was a Christmas filled with handmade gifts, which happens to be my favorite kind of gift. I made a lot of gifts to give this year as well as received plenty of fantastic handmade gifts. Before the year … Continue reading
Some cute bunny slippers
Hippity-hop, hippity-hop . . . some bunny slippers hopped into my blog! Last year I made 8 pairs of bunny slipper magnets for a custom order (a very welcome and fun order!). This year I did a custom order for … Continue reading
Sailboat Saga – Children Sculptures (work in progress)
The last update on my sailboat sculpture was about making the propeller to make the sailboat “fly”. This time I am going to share with you, my “work-in-progress” photos of the sculptures for the children who will be voyaging on … Continue reading
Cute handmade bird ornaments
Here are my new “jellybean” bird ornaments! They do remind me of brightly colored jellybeans, but actually these handmade bird ornaments are inspired by some comic strip characters that I made years and years ago while in middle school. The … Continue reading
Sailboat “Work in Progress” Saga – The Propeller
Here it is, the first chapter in the “work-in-progress” sailboat saga! I found a “propeller” for my sailboat that I was going to paint with spray paint and then I was going to attach it to the boat “as is.” … Continue reading
Fairy Plaques
This week my friend Hannah and I attended a class at the Scrapbook Cottage. In the class we created three charming fairy plaques using images from a sheet of Woodland Fantasy paper from Graphic 45. Each of us in the … Continue reading
Birthday Cake Magnets
This year I made some birthday cake magnets to send as a gift to my sister, Ann, and to my friend, Danielle. I wanted to package the cakes in a mini version of a cake box with a see-through “window” … Continue reading
A Valentine’s Make n’ Take
On Saturday my friend Hannah and I went to a Valentine’s make n’ take at the Scrapbook Cottage. They always have cute and fun projects to make. We made a card with an adorable bicycle rubber stamp image from Hero … Continue reading
Some more hand-stitched hearts
I have enjoyed stitching felt hearts. There is something so warm and inviting about working with felt, maybe it’s the bright colors and softness of felt that makes it so appealing. And stitching them together is such a relaxing and … Continue reading
Victorian Valentine’s Ornaments
There are some great ideas at the Art Glitter blog from their guest designers. When I was a guest designer last year, I found some creative glitter projects from previous designers. One project that really piqued my interest was an … Continue reading




