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]]>“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”
Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”
But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.
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]]>The post This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>It all began with the birth of her first child. “I designed her birth announcement and I really loved working on the illustrations,” she relayed in an interview with the Printed blog. Soon, an experimentation with color and shapes began. “My first illustrations were mainly colorful animals, personalized name prints and cartoons,” she says.
Years later, and now a proud mother of two, her brand is steadily growing, introducing more designs and merchandise. With a background in fashion design, Poppekins provides a different sort of creative outlet for van der Meer.
And with two small children running around, inspiration is aplenty. “They inspire me every day with their curious outlook on life and all the funny things they say,” she admits. “Their colorful toys and books give me so much inspiration too.”
Here’s a brand that both children and parents can enjoy!
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]]>The post Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.
“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”
Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”
Check out some of her work in the gallery below.
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]]>The post Mom Draws Comics Based on Her Life with 5-Year-Old Twins appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>“Trapped in my heavy packed routines, sometimes small sweet things that happen in my life are taken for granted and forgotten,” Winda says. “Therefore, I decided to make comics about my life and my family.”
She draws simple moments she wants to cherish forever and to keep as memories for her kids when they get older.
Scroll down to see some of her comics that we loved the most. Follow her on Instagram for more.
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]]>The post Tweets That Capture the Essence of Living with a 4-Year-Old appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>This is especially true for parents. As much as they love sharing the most angelic moments of their kids’ lives, they don’t shy away from posting something cringy or embarrassing that’s happened. Especially if it’s hilarious at the same time.
Below are some of the best situations parents of 4-year-olds have encountered and shared with the world on Twitter. They sum up the reality of a life with a toddler pretty well, in case you were wondering what it was like to have one.
Enjoy!
4yo: Can you read me one more book?
Me: No kiddo, it's time for bed.
4yo: But I'm a curious woman. And reading books helps me learn things and be smarter. Don't you want me to learn things and be smarter?
— Jess Calarco (@JessicaCalarco) December 2, 2018
My 4yo has met his younger brother for the first time. Walks up to the crib, pats him on the leg, and says, "You'll get through this," then walks away.
this goddamn shrimp
— the gRINCHupeco who stole Christmas (@RinChupeco) August 11, 2018
Every morning my 4yo tells me it’s a “blank day” because nothing good or bad has happened yet. At night, if anything remotely negative happened, she pretends to throw the memory into a garbage can to make room for more good memories.
So basically she’s already smarter than I am.
— Akemi Dawn Bowman (@akemidawn) November 26, 2018
Audrey (4yo): Daddy, what’s 100 minus 1?
Me: 99
Audrey: What’s 40 million plus one?
Me: 40,000,001
*10 seconds of stunned silence*
Audrey: Wow daddy, you know a lot of math.— Brian Wecht (@bwecht) December 2, 2018
4yo’s doing some magic.
4yo: Did you see me put that ball under that hat?
Me: Yes.
4yo: Try to forget.— Laura Pearson (@LauraPAuthor) June 3, 2018
4-year-old: Did you know you can put cheese on anything?
Me: What?
4: *intense whisper* ANYTHING.
— James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) April 19, 2017
4yo: You're a good dad.
Me: Thanks.
4yo: You'd be better if you said yes more.
Me: Okay.
4yo: Can I have ice cream? Think about what I said.— Mike Reynolds (@EverydayGirlDad) June 20, 2016
My 4yo is playing in a large box.
Me: “Is that your rocket ship? Your castle? Your voyaging boat?”
4yo: “Nope. It’s my garbage can. I live in it.”Dream big kid.
— boujie native (@kloqowej) November 27, 2018
Me: Audrey, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Audrey (4yo): A music player, just like you!
Me: Yay!
Audrey: And I can play in your band!
Me: Yes please!
Audrey: And then when you die, I can take your place!
Me: …— Brian Wecht (@bwecht) November 12, 2018
4yo: *spills goldfish crackers on the floor*
Me: please pick them up
4yo: but the doggy can do that
Me: we dont have a dog
4yo: *patting 2yo bro on the head* "Nice doggy"— Andrew vG (@tenwattandrew) June 9, 2018
If you ever want to see how patient you are, watch a 4 yr old try to zip up their jacket. You should be canonized for sainthood after that.
— Danielle Herzog (@martinisandmini) February 22, 2016
My 4 yr old daughter continues to ruin me….
Stood quietly in a que at the bank….
4yo- “daddy has that lady got a big baby in her tummy?”
** Fat man with long hair turns around and looks at her **
— The Acoustic Cop (@acousticcop) August 10, 2018
My 4 year old son asked me why I was putting on makeup and I said "To make me look pretty." He replied "I don't think it's working."
— Chutup (@Chutup) September 23, 2017
4yo running around outside in full Batman regalia.
Me: “you can't be out in the rain at this time of night”
4yo [exasperated]:
“THIS CITY NEEDS ME, JESUS CHRIST!”— Kendy Crush (@KennedyConnolly) June 13, 2018
4 was laying on the dining room floor…
2yo: Are you dead?
4yo: No, I'm not dead. I'm resting my feelings.— Caffeine, Chaos & Grace (@cafchaosgrace) November 6, 2018
My 4yo is playing pretend with his dinosaurs and the daddy dinosaur just constantly says “I’m old let me rest.”
— Creed (@chemical_scum) June 14, 2018
Overheard my 4yo explaining 'barefoot' to her little sister: "we call this bare feet because we're not wearing shoes outside, just like bears."
— Jess Bleakley (@JLBleakley) July 16, 2018
Audrey (4yo) and I saw a big rainbow flag while in West Hollywood today.
Audrey: Daddy, what’s that?
Me: A rainbow flag. It reminds us that there are lots of different kinds of people in the world & that we should love everyone.
Audrey: Well I already love everyone, so I WIN.— Brian Wecht (@bwecht) August 20, 2018
My 4yo just asked me if I was there when we went to Disney 6 weeks ago for 5 days, so I’m obviously making a huge impact in her life.
— SpacedMom (@copymama) November 7, 2017
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]]>The post Marianna Coppo Works Hard — Plays Harder appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>“Creating a book is an incredibly exciting and terribly frustrating experience,” admitted the Italian author in an interview with The Picture Book Review. Still, she finds that the “aha-insight moment”, when it happens, is amazing. “I’m not a very methodical person and I tend to scribble down stories,” she shared, explaining her creative process. “When I first come up with a story, it seems perfect (it never is). Then comes the part that I have to make concrete all of the things that I have in my head and that’s when the trouble begins.”
Like all good things in life, her work requires some decision making and, regrettingly, some compromise. According to Coppo, working on a book can be a taxing exercise. “Often I fall in love with the idea and lose sight of the bigger picture,” she says. “In practical terms, it comes down to making compromises.”
But creating picture books also means she gets to do the two things she enjoys best: drawing and writing. “The idea to give this form to my stories came quite naturally,” she admits.
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]]>The post This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>It all began with the birth of her first child. “I designed her birth announcement and I really loved working on the illustrations,” she relayed in an interview with the Printed blog. Soon, an experimentation with color and shapes began. “My first illustrations were mainly colorful animals, personalized name prints and cartoons,” she says.
Years later, and now a proud mother of two, her brand is steadily growing, introducing more designs and merchandise. With a background in fashion design, Poppekins provides a different sort of creative outlet for van der Meer.
And with two small children running around, inspiration is aplenty. “They inspire me every day with their curious outlook on life and all the funny things they say,” she admits. “Their colorful toys and books give me so much inspiration too.”
Here’s a brand that both children and parents can enjoy!
The post This Children’s Brand Aims to Put a Smile on Your Face appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>The post Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>Inspired (and influenced) by her two young girls, Stickley enjoys writing and illustrating stories for children. Trained originally as a printed textile designer, her illustrations are a mixture of shapes, patterns, and textures.
“When I was little, I was always making and doing, be it cooking, coloring, sewing, painting, drawing… I’d always be creating something or another,” recalled Stickley. “I think things really took hold at school when I had a wonderful art teacher, who encouraged me to apply for a Textile Design degree. Training and working as a printed textile designer, illustration naturally went hand in hand with designing prints. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to transfer this into illustrating for books.”
Explaining her creative process itself, she admits to using a lot of different processes to draw, using oil pastels, the mono-printed line combined with a collaged pattern, pen and ink, and paper cutting and paint. “I quite like a blank sheet of paper and often doodle on older, more worn out bits of paper I’ve collected over the years,” she says. “It adds another element to the illustration, I think.”
Check out some of her work in the gallery below.
The post Lisa Stickley’s Art Is Childish, But In a Good Way appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>The post Mom Draws Comics Based on Her Life with 5-Year-Old Twins appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>“Trapped in my heavy packed routines, sometimes small sweet things that happen in my life are taken for granted and forgotten,” Winda says. “Therefore, I decided to make comics about my life and my family.”
She draws simple moments she wants to cherish forever and to keep as memories for her kids when they get older.
Scroll down to see some of her comics that we loved the most. Follow her on Instagram for more.
The post Mom Draws Comics Based on Her Life with 5-Year-Old Twins appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>The post Tweets That Capture the Essence of Living with a 4-Year-Old appeared first on TettyBetty.
]]>This is especially true for parents. As much as they love sharing the most angelic moments of their kids’ lives, they don’t shy away from posting something cringy or embarrassing that’s happened. Especially if it’s hilarious at the same time.
Below are some of the best situations parents of 4-year-olds have encountered and shared with the world on Twitter. They sum up the reality of a life with a toddler pretty well, in case you were wondering what it was like to have one.
Enjoy!
4yo: Can you read me one more book?
Me: No kiddo, it's time for bed.
4yo: But I'm a curious woman. And reading books helps me learn things and be smarter. Don't you want me to learn things and be smarter?
— Jess Calarco (@JessicaCalarco) December 2, 2018
My 4yo has met his younger brother for the first time. Walks up to the crib, pats him on the leg, and says, "You'll get through this," then walks away.
this goddamn shrimp
— the gRINCHupeco who stole Christmas (@RinChupeco) August 11, 2018
Every morning my 4yo tells me it’s a “blank day” because nothing good or bad has happened yet. At night, if anything remotely negative happened, she pretends to throw the memory into a garbage can to make room for more good memories.
So basically she’s already smarter than I am.
— Akemi Dawn Bowman (@akemidawn) November 26, 2018
Audrey (4yo): Daddy, what’s 100 minus 1?
Me: 99
Audrey: What’s 40 million plus one?
Me: 40,000,001
*10 seconds of stunned silence*
Audrey: Wow daddy, you know a lot of math.— Brian Wecht (@bwecht) December 2, 2018
4yo’s doing some magic.
4yo: Did you see me put that ball under that hat?
Me: Yes.
4yo: Try to forget.— Laura Pearson (@LauraPAuthor) June 3, 2018
4-year-old: Did you know you can put cheese on anything?
Me: What?
4: *intense whisper* ANYTHING.
— James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) April 19, 2017
4yo: You're a good dad.
Me: Thanks.
4yo: You'd be better if you said yes more.
Me: Okay.
4yo: Can I have ice cream? Think about what I said.— Mike Reynolds (@EverydayGirlDad) June 20, 2016
My 4yo is playing in a large box.
Me: “Is that your rocket ship? Your castle? Your voyaging boat?”
4yo: “Nope. It’s my garbage can. I live in it.”Dream big kid.
— boujie native (@kloqowej) November 27, 2018
Me: Audrey, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Audrey (4yo): A music player, just like you!
Me: Yay!
Audrey: And I can play in your band!
Me: Yes please!
Audrey: And then when you die, I can take your place!
Me: …— Brian Wecht (@bwecht) November 12, 2018
4yo: *spills goldfish crackers on the floor*
Me: please pick them up
4yo: but the doggy can do that
Me: we dont have a dog
4yo: *patting 2yo bro on the head* "Nice doggy"— Andrew vG (@tenwattandrew) June 9, 2018
If you ever want to see how patient you are, watch a 4 yr old try to zip up their jacket. You should be canonized for sainthood after that.
— Danielle Herzog (@martinisandmini) February 22, 2016
My 4 yr old daughter continues to ruin me….
Stood quietly in a que at the bank….
4yo- “daddy has that lady got a big baby in her tummy?”
** Fat man with long hair turns around and looks at her **
— The Acoustic Cop (@acousticcop) August 10, 2018
My 4 year old son asked me why I was putting on makeup and I said "To make me look pretty." He replied "I don't think it's working."
— Chutup (@Chutup) September 23, 2017
4yo running around outside in full Batman regalia.
Me: “you can't be out in the rain at this time of night”
4yo [exasperated]:
“THIS CITY NEEDS ME, JESUS CHRIST!”— Kendy Crush (@KennedyConnolly) June 13, 2018
4 was laying on the dining room floor…
2yo: Are you dead?
4yo: No, I'm not dead. I'm resting my feelings.— Caffeine, Chaos & Grace (@cafchaosgrace) November 6, 2018
My 4yo is playing pretend with his dinosaurs and the daddy dinosaur just constantly says “I’m old let me rest.”
— Creed (@chemical_scum) June 14, 2018
Overheard my 4yo explaining 'barefoot' to her little sister: "we call this bare feet because we're not wearing shoes outside, just like bears."
— Jess Bleakley (@JLBleakley) July 16, 2018
Audrey (4yo) and I saw a big rainbow flag while in West Hollywood today.
Audrey: Daddy, what’s that?
Me: A rainbow flag. It reminds us that there are lots of different kinds of people in the world & that we should love everyone.
Audrey: Well I already love everyone, so I WIN.— Brian Wecht (@bwecht) August 20, 2018
My 4yo just asked me if I was there when we went to Disney 6 weeks ago for 5 days, so I’m obviously making a huge impact in her life.
— SpacedMom (@copymama) November 7, 2017
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