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Creative Process

Across two decades of daily collaboration, we’ve gathered some advice and opinions about how to imagine, enact, and sustain a life that centers on making things.

Annabelle Adams

Annabelle Adams

If you haven't been keeping up (who has?), we have published a book called The Real McCoys. It's a great book, a book we like, blah blah blah, I feel like we've mentioned it here A. COUPLE. TIMES. BEFORE. But that's just background intel for this post. If your...

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Advice to a Young Writer

Not long ago, I received an email from a young woman (the daughter of a high school friend), asking me for insight on the writing process. It was fun (and  instructive) to take a few minutes to reflect on what it takes to do what I do. I figured that, since I took the...

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The Most Wonderful Writing App

NOTE: This post is mostly for writers, though I suspect that anyone could benefit from the experience I'm recommending. But if you've come for family photos and don't feel like reading for a few minutes, no hard feelings. We'll be back again tomorrow.  I made a...

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Weather Balloon Auction

Weather Balloon Auction

Hello, folks. For various reasons involving travel, fishing, writing things, drawing things, traveling some more, sleeping not enough, and then traveling, we put the art auction on hiatus for a few months. But now it has returned, along with a volley of blog posts...

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New Auction: Honeymoon

New Auction: Honeymoon

Here we are: another month, another painting up for auction. The theme of the month is rockets, and so Robbi's options were somewhat limited. Here's what she came up with. I'm rather fond of it. For those of you who do not live in the barn and are not, therefore, able...

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Here We Go Again

Here We Go Again

Because we are committed to no less than ten big creative projects (four volumes for Idiots'Books, six mailings for Bobbledy) each year, there's not much time to rest in the barn. Robbi is busy at work on the next Bobbledy title, A Hole in this Book, a story about a...

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The Auction Has Returned! – Rainy Night

The Auction Has Returned! – Rainy Night

Perhaps you have been discontent these past many months while the Bobbledy Books original illustration auctions have been dormant. Your long sad wait is over. The artist in question was recently inspired and has recommitted herself to producing one original painting...

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