New #B2S Tool & My New Book

Today, the end of July finds me reflecting on summer of 2025 finds.

I'm loving this app, which turns your pictures into coloring sheets.

Teachers, I see so much potential here; you could take first-day photos and turn them in to coloring sheets for a really fun display for Open House! Or, make a coloring book of yourself (or other key people on campus) and invite students to color the adults in their new school family.

It's pretty cool, really, to go from this ...

to this.

Or try Canva to cartoonize your photos.

This is the pair of slippers that my mom's mom, Grandma Larsen,

was knitting at the time of her passing in the late 1990s.

Mom had planned to finish them, but life tends to get in the way,

so I finished them off and gave them to her when she moved into her new place, some twenty years later. Just look at how happy she is to get to see and then wear her mom's handiwork after all of that time.

It was this find that planted the seed for the new picture book I've been working on most of this summer. Our talented illustrator, McKenna Giamfortone, has finished her watercolors and they are brilliant!

Here's a sneak peek at my favorite page ...

I cannot wait to share the rest of it with you soon.