Penelope Illustration • Penelope Dullaghan

Lately I’ve been obsessed with little DIY projects. Especially when they end up being good cost savers. My local friends have been passing around a homemade laundry soap recipe and I thought I’d share it here. Here’s what you need: Arm & Hammer All Natural Washing Soda – $3.09 Borax All Natural Laundry Booster – [...]

I just added two new pieces to the News section of the site (for those who don’t subscribe to the RSS feed), including this one for the NY Times Op-ed. Enjoy!

Here’s a recent illustration I did for Hales Creative. It was for a story about foster parenting…the idea was that kids with rough pasts go into a loving home and find a place to bloom and grow. Here are the spots that accompanied the article:

Friday at lunch the phone rings. It’s the NY Times Op-ed looking for a finished illustration by the end of the day. Can I do it? Yep. I can. Put my stress level through the roof, but I got it done with an hour to spare. :) The story is about equal pay for women [...]

On Colin’s blog, he’s offering a public service for those interested in a “rock on!”.

summer has passed the torch off to fall. tonight was the first night of temps cool enough for me to get the knit blankets down from the closet shelf and to make up a cup of hot cocoa. looking for one of the cats to come warm up my lap. been so so busy lately [...]

New work to share! This is a new book cover for Scholastic. The book is for the pre-teen audience and called “The Great Wall Of Lucy Wu” by Wendy Wan-Long Shang. Really fun to work on. And I like how the final turned out. Here it is in context:

New work to share! This is a new book cover for Scholastic. The book is called “The Great Wall of Lucy Wu” by Wendy Wan-Long Shang. Really fun to work on. And I like how the final turned out. Here it is in context:

We welcomed my new niece Zoe into the world yesterday morning. She’s a beauty! I was so happy to rock her to sleep. Congratulations to Tom and Niki!

I got my first canning lesson this weekend when my mom and I made a veritable boat load of salsa and canned all day Sunday. It was so fun to chop and dice and chat and laugh together as we worked away over the hot stove. I was so drained by the end of the [...]

Love this. from Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Peace Is Every Step“.

painting on the sidewalks at the first friday gallery/shop walk bonfires with my extended family… sharing stories and tall tales… veda got a mullet chop ice cream circles… veda got bites of everyone’s cones kayaking down a beautiful late summer river sliding and laughing till our bellies hurt. It was a great birthday weekend. I [...]

even temporarily falling off the path even losing your temper even knowing you did a good job even forgetting to send in your taxes even procrastinating even jealousy even red and purple sunsets even… everything.