graduation cards

Have a graduating goddaughter or godson? Stop by your local Hallmark store and pick up one of my cards! Yep, these are a couple of my latest illos for Hallmark!

swept

©2011, Monika Roe

Here's my illo for this week's Illustration Friday topic of "swept"...

This idea popped into my head immediately when I read what the new topic was. It was one of those ideas that wouldn't leave me alone and nagged me everyday until I sat down and drew it.

Must have been quite a party for the maid to go on strike the next day!

office happenings

So I walk into my office after getting a coffee refill from the kitchen and this is the scene. Ladybug's station during the day is behind my chair on a mound of heart shaped pillows tucked in the folds of the wooden screens along the wall. For some reason that only a pug could know she found the wall of wood beside her irresistibly delicious! She licked it for a good couple of minutes before going back to her rhythmic snoring. 

Check out that tongue! Usually it's hanging out of the side of her mouth because she has no teeth left to hold it in. Crazy pug!

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shadows

©2011, Monika Roe

For this week's Illustration Friday topic of "shadows"...

a parfait murder out today!

This is the latest of my illustrated book covers and believe me, I was craving ice cream in a BIG way the whole time I was working on this cover!

Released today, A Parfait Murder is the newest cozy mystery in Wendy Lyn Watson's Mystery À La Mode series. Besides offering up a great who-dun-it plot, this book even includes ice cream recipes! The other titles I've illustrated for this series include I Scream, You Scream and Scoop to Kill.

I am thrilled to be a part of bringing this series to life!

national doughnut day

©2011, Monika Roe

It's the first Friday of June so you know what that means?! It's National Doughnut Day!

Oh how I enjoy a good doughnut every now and then! Dolly's Donuts here in town makes one that's chocolate iced with mini chocolate chips on top. As if that isn't enough, it's also stuffed inside with more mini chocolate chips! (You can see my illustration of it on my map of Paso Robles.)

This is the safest kind of doughnut there is, a knitted one! I made this for fun from a pattern I found online, then crocheted the icing and sewed on the sprinkles. A great way to use up odds and ends of yarn!

june!

©2011, Monika Roe

June means SUMMER! The favorite season of all "Popsicle-istas"!

If I were to design the perfect popsicles they would be in a range of classic patterns from the fashion world flavored with exotic ingredients. I imagine this houndstooth popsicle would taste like lychee fruit!