Yesterdays "bookfest"

I made my first book ;) It's soft because its fabric and it's full of weird (but not frightening) poems. It's been manifactured by (my very own) Weird Rhymes Ltd. HIH!

I'm not quite sure what that little book critic thinks about this one. Maybe she'll tell me when she learns to talk?

I made the outlines and texts by textile marker and then painted the colourfull parts by brush and textile colours (that I mix myself from pigment and emulsion)

The "poems" go something like this:

1) Cat the Longtail dresses up with bows

2) This bird with yellow beak, flies trough the air and says kwaak, kwaak, kwaak.

3) The piglets have a funny beauty contest and the most crooked pigtail is making the judge happy. Bravo!

4) Matti the inchworm stopped in Mikkeli while going aroud the worl and waved. (to the little girl "reading" the book)

5) In the karaoke between the bulrushes the fish friends sing wildly

6) The lizard sisters giggle in the running contest and say wrooom

Tonight we are going to go out with my work mates to celebrate the succes of last year. We are going to eat and drink well and I have new top! It's the most shakeable top EVER! I'm so looking forward to dansing with it!

This dog looks like Tahvo

This looks like Tahvo most... I was eating apple cinnamon cheesecake and some of it was left when I had to move from the comfort of my sofa and "powder my nose". When I came back there was no cake, but the breath of the dog smelled like sweet cinnamon...

This is a very good illustration (and story) for children's book by Katie Kirk. I'm a big fan of imaginary and fun children's books and I know that the good ones are not easy to find. (I used to read stories for children under 6 years. It was only a few hours per week in a library when I was studying). Suprisingly often the stories that I inspected before reading them were too scary or they have weird stereotypes and stupid prejudices that no child should learn.