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February Mailing campaign

I sent out the first "News Letter" for February today.
You can see it here if you wish...
News Letter 1 for February.

I also found my newest board book for Ideals publishing on amazon.
You can see it here...
The Itsy Bitsy Spider on Amazon.com

Itsy Bitsy Catalog

Last week I received my copy of the Ideals Publications Books Spring 2009 catalog.
See below.



The thing that excited me was that I opened the cover above and on the first page was this...



That's the cover of the book I illustrated for them!
So my post for "Contain" this week is the above, because I just can't contain my excitement.

I didn't get my submission for last weeks "Resolve" done until Sunday.
So here it is...



Mr. Holmes and the Dr. are trying to resolve a mystery.

An Itsy Bitsy Bit more

These are 2 more interior images from "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."
It will be published by Ideals Books. I'm not sure of the release date yet.




Illustrated by Robert Snyder www.robertsnyderillustrates.com

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Letterhead ideas -
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Banner ideas -
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IF - POOF

It's almost impossible not to think of magic when you see or hear the word Poof.
So I started thinking about ways to do it without a rabbit and a hat.
For some unexplainable reason the Immaculate Conception came to mind.
Magically making a woman pregnant is a pretty good poof moment, I think.
My experience in coming up with titles for giftware figurines has led me to the practice of substituting one word for another that kind of sounds the same.
So I swapped out Conception with Confection and all of a sudden I had a woman who's belly had to turn into food.
I had to look up what a confection was in a cook book, because I wasn't sure what one was exactly. I knew it was some kind of dessert, but what kind?
The book had a recipe for some fancy strawberries. My mind automatically saw the stem as an "outie" so I had my idea and the drawing below is the result....