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.
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...
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...
Robbi is a raccoon. By which I mean, she comes alive when the sun sets and kicks into full gear when the most of us are ready to climb into bed. Her natural creative sweet spot is 10:00pm -2:00am. We've known this for a long time, but in the interest of spending time...
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...
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...
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...
I bring you today the second installment of the recently relaunched original illustration auction—along with some process pics that show you how it came to be. First, Robbi drew a sketch. I don't have a picture of it. You'll just have to take it on faith. Next she...
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...
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...
