Beth LemonCadet and I are working on a new project: a website to promote quirky/rad/cool handmade children's goods. It is called Yeti Loves Seamonster. I came up with the idea last week and we are running with it. In honor of it, she snagged an Etsy Treasury, take a look:

The site will not only feature cool/quirky handmade goods for kids, it will have an area with free downloadable coloring book pages for parents to print out. No more coloring Dora and Elmo! I am gathering black and white pages of art from all kinds of artists. If you would like to be a part of this project, use the contact link above to email me. I am accepting two types of art. First is your choice. Pick your own favorite piece, make it black and white (for coloring in!) and send it to me as a 8-1/2x11 PDF. The second option has you drawing something new on the theme, "Yeti Loves Seamonster." These should also be black and white 8-1/2x11 PDFs. These will be collected into a free downloadable coloring book with all of the other pieces in the series. All art will remain yours and you can add your URL or contact information to the page. Make sense? I am really interested in providing interesting content for parents to expose their kids to.

Another section of the site will be a blog that collects first memories. Anyone can send these to me. Again, click the contact link and email me your earliest memory, any length is fine. I did this a long time ago in a zine and really loved it. I think it is nice to remember that as parents we are helping create these memories for our little ones and revisiting our own is fun.

Yeti Loves Seamonster isn't up yet, but will be in the next month or so. Do feel free to send me content, ideas for content, whatever! Tell me about cool handmade kids stuff and I may feature it!