The Toymaker's Journal

To Amuse and Delight.

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“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

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So, for reasons, my art is being shown in at the Shanghai International Illustration Art Expo 2026GAF. I am totally stoked about it and is something I never would have predicted when I was younger.

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“Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way"

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"Happiness comes through doors that you didn't even know that you left open"

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We are the music makers,

    And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

    And sitting by desolate streams; —

World-losers and world-forsakers,

    On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

    Of the world for ever, it seems.

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I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. ~ Dr. Seuss 

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My friend made this from a painting I did of Baby Sam. I hope you have a wonderful week

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The best strawberries I've ever eaten and it's February. What is this magic?

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Actually went out for a walk. “The bee’s work is a quiet reminder of the sweetness that comes from effort.”

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Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive. ~ Vera Nazarian

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My Funny Valentine

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“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” ~ Edward Hopper

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Look at this little sweetpea in China making one of my paper toys

I have never been never so delighted with the internet. <3

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“January is for dreamers—the ones who believe anything is possible in the year ahead.”

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C. S. Lewis.