Back in November, when I finished my season-themed miniature book on fall, I thought designing the final book in the set—spring—would be easy. After all spring is a time of rebirth and color. But every time I sat down to work on it, all I could focus on was the long list of house projects we had lined up as soon as it got warm again. I didn’t want winter to end.
Then in late April the daffodils I planted last fall started to bloom. But the tipping point to actually getting started was mid-May when we had a huge influx of migrating birds and a pair of robins starting building a very large nest in a tree outside my studio window. So in between all those house projects, I got the book designed, printed and assembled. Like the other 3 books, there’s a surprise at the end—this time it’s a pop-up bouquet of spring flowers. I’ve called it “I Wake to a Warming World: Spring” and you can see all the spreads here. The other books in the series are Summer in Vermont, One More Blanket on the Bed. Fall., and Winter’s Song.
