Illustrated Tumbler and Inspiring Blogs

I just finished this little drawing of an owl, hedgehog and mouse sipping some tea for a tumbler. All I can say is that I really love it!
I was on the search for the perfect quote about tea, and almost chose this one..
"You can never have a cup of tea big enough, or a book long enough to suit me..."C.S. Lewis
until, my mom kept saying this little ditty she made up, "Drink tea with me, the best is yet to be!". I loved it right away, and decided to swirl it around up at the top there.

I used colored pencils mainly and then pen for the quote.
I, of course, had to add some little mushrooms :).
Like the little thimble used as a cup?
Hee hee
Also I thought I would share some inspiring blogs I have been frequenting lately:

Beautiful textile art on Fiona Wilson
Really inspiring crochet home goods on Attic24 (how have I never seen this one before?)

Lovely illustrations on About Today, especially this post makes me want to have an illustrated travelogue
Some really great fashion+illustration+day to day goodness on Paper Sparrow

Also Carly (of A Girl and Her Blog) got a new blog called She Loves Libraries, be sure to check it out!

Hope your day is marvelous!
XOXO, Callie
the magical bean

Hedgehog Heaven

Can I help it that hedgehogs are so cute?

I love them, yes I do.

I actually am working on another drawing of one I hope to show you soon. Can't wait!

Today I thought I would share some hedgehog inspired etsy finds as well as two Russian cartoons I love.

Enjoy!

Click the pictures to see the very talented etsians behind it.

I found these cartoons while watching Cheburashka cartoons which Ireally love. I made it through today! Woo hoo!!!!!

XOXO, Callie

the magical bean

Forest Friends Drawing

Here is new drawing I did, which I used on my post in Diamond in the Rough but haven't shown here... so some of you may have already seen it.

But anywho, here it is, drawn in colored pencil and pen, a trio of little forest friends crocheting/knitting.

My sister Kaitlyn of My Baloney has another wonderful post to share, so be sure to stop by and check it out.

I woke up thinking of this song by Florence+the machine, so here it is!

Little Hedgehog Print

This is another new print I just added to the shop! This little hedgehog is one of my favorite's that I have done in a long time... I love his little dreamy look.

As for the inchworm...when I was little I was literally obsessed with inchworms and caterpillars. I would hunt them out and love the feel of them crawling on my skin. I wanted to be the size of them and explore the inner workings of trees and see how tall grass would look at that size. I would fill pages of drawings with them and even once had an inchworm inspired cake. This little inchworm is much like the ones I used to imagine with his outrageous little boots and rainbow colored body, he almost seems to walk out of my childhood dreams.

The print measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches with a small white border for framing.
Drawing was done in black ink and then colored in with colored pencils.