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The Little Cuties animals and garden flash card sets are full of color, character and imagination. They were designed to help teach little ones how to identify animals, fruits and vegetables. They also encourage children to imagine what it might be like to be a sweet pea or a colorful parrot.

These cards were designed with another purpose in mind as well, to help children recognize emotions. Expressions and emotions range in all of us and the Little Cuties provide a full array. From a crying crocodile to a silly peach. From a shy carrot to a scary (or maybe even angry) bear. Even a surprised frog or gleeful blueberry will give your little ones reason to relate to these feelings as they see them in the faces of each Little Cutie.

The sets come with a cover card, back card showing all characters in the set (see photos below) and 24 animals or 28 garden fruits and veggies cards. They make wonderful baby shower or birthday gifts.

These cards can be also be used for a child’s room decor as borders, or framed in sets hanging above a crib or play area. What a wonderful scene to have your little one wake up to. Each day is full of emotions . . . what will this new day bring?

Get the Little Cuties Animals and Garden card sets at Lettering Delights and awaken the emotions of your little ones.

And don’t forget the Little Cuties Let’s Pretend Animals and Little Cuties Let’s Pretend in the Garden books that started the cutie craze, available on Amazon. Your little ones will love the books too!

Too cute! And two cute collections of Little Cuties.

The Little Cuties, Let’s Pretend Animals and Little Cuties, Let’s Pretend in the Garden are ready to go from being only in books to being in many of your creations. The Little Cuties animal and garden book characters are now available on Lettering Delights. They are full of fun and sweetness to be used for crafts, baby products and gifts, baby shower and birthday parties, garden and outdoor ideas, nursery decor, and just about anything with a little cutie in mind.



The Little Cuties: Animals will give you many reasons to become an animal lover in a new and darling way. There are animal flash cards for learning and decor.



Also many graphics for party planning, paper patterns for gift wrap, boxes, banners, baby care labels, tags with sweet sayings, and an alphabet.





The Little Cuties: In the Garden will give everyone a new appreciation for fruits and veggies. These charming characters are available as garden flash cards.



There are also boxes, banners, party decor, papers, tags and an alphabet.



And the garden collection also has a sweet set of seed packets.



I have an idea you will give this little gardening collection two green thumbs up.



Get the Little Cuties Animal set and Garden set on Lettering Delights and start creating-cutie-crafts. Then read my blog for many craft and party ideas, DIY, and helpful tips over the next few days and get in on the Little Cutie craze! And don’t forget, it all began with Little Cuties beginner books.

The Boy on Shady Grove Road

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer have finally met their match. In this boyhood story of imagination and adventure Clyde and Kenny are the mid-century version of these adventurous boys, and I do know, as Clyde is my dad, and Kenny was my cousin.

I am so proud to announce the arrival of The Boy on Shady Grove Road a new book my dad, Clyde McCulley, has written about his childhood in the 1940s and 50s. It is filled with heartfelt and humorous stories of his “short on cash” upbringing that was never short on love. 

I knew many of these stories growing up, and even experienced the joy and simplicity of that little house on Shady Grove where he grew up, and many of the stories take place. It is only now that I can have the memories kept forever in this delightful, and sometimes tearful recollection of a childhood only a poor boy in the South could know . . . a rich life of wonder, joy and love!

Even though I was able to have these stories told first-hand growing up, I have now been able to read and already reread his book, The Boy on Shady Grove Road. I promise if you read this book, whether somewhat seasoned, like Dad, a mid-century born girl like myself, or a young one like Dad’s grandkids, you will all find joy in a simpler life, an appreciation for the life you’ve been given, and a way of learning about history that text books don’t give. And if you do not learn any of this, you’d best reread the book. :) 

The book is now available on Amazon, and the e-book will be coming soon. I really do suggest you take a little time out from your busy schedule and take a quick look at a slow-paced life on Shady Grove Road. It will be worth a few minutes of your life, I promise.

Thank you Dad, for sharing your life with us, to help each of us appreciate what we have and what we are capable of having and doing in this one life we are given. Many congratulations and much love!

Forever flowers from this day forward

My daughter’s bestie got married on the weekend and I was lucky enough to make the wedding flowers for the event.



Rachel, the bride, asked me to create flowers for her wedding when she was only about eighteen . . . should Mr. Right come into her life one day.



I agreed thinking she might change her mind when the time and the groom came along.

Now, six years later her wish has come true . . . she married the love of her life . . . and her forever flowers will be a reminder of their lovely and charming wedding day.



Congratulations Rachel & Derek!



May God bless you both as you begin this new life together.

It’s time for the Little Cuties to meet the world

It’s time to meet the Little Cuties! A series of books we have been working and now have the first two completed in the series. They are available on Amazon in paper back and e-book. Find the Little Cuties animals book and the Little Cuties garden book by clicking on the links.

Here is the “Little Cuties Let’s Pretend! animals”

and the “Little Cuties Let’s Pretend! in the garden”

These books are designed for ages birth through preschool and provide fun verses and art for your own little cutie to pretend with and enjoy. There is even a lucky four-leaf clover hidden within each book for your little tike to find, and each book shares the complete group of Little Cuties at a last page to see them all and decide which Cutie they like best.

Here is the Little Cuties animal front cover and back cover.

Here are a few sample pages from the animal book.

    

    

Here is the Little Cuties garden front cover and back cover.

Here are a few sample pages from the garden book.

    

    

Watch for our new Little Cuties books to arrive soon, “Little Cuties Bugs” and “Little Cuties Nature.” They are great companion pieces for the first two books. 

Go to our Story Night Press website to keep up with the latest and to find our books and e-books on Amazon.