Jill and I recently started a small off-shoot site to our Dolls for Friends imprint called Doodle on the Carpet. The purpose of DOTC is to provide us a space where we can share some of the basic and rough doodles/sketches from our books. Some of these roughs have been slated for various projects we […]

New fire element wallet design from our side project, Dolls for Friends

We were so excited when we found out that one of our illustrations had been chosen to be made into a wallet by the awesome Portland, Oregon accessory company, Tinymeat. Our excitement was compounded four-fold when we learned that we were going to do three […]

Our little design firm, eljl, and startup project, Dolls for Friends, have been oh so busy the last couple of months. We are in a constant state of production-moving from one project to the other, sweating deadlines and trying to keep our heads above water.
I’d forgotten what it meant to be completely out on your own, […]