She has returned from the big city with a book contract! It will published in March '11, and is called "The House that Mouse Built...

Hardworking mouse cartoonist, inspired by my son Sam Alden. Check out his great work at gingerlandcomics.blogspot.com

I made this ewer out of an acorn modified with fimo and then painted. The stand is made from bent brass safety pins.

The well-groomed mouse brushes her face every morning

a loaf of mouse bread, the size of a lima bean

Greetings from Mouseland! I have been away from internet access for a few days and have returned to find my followers list tripled! So I ne...

the basket is made from a poppy pod

The fans are a pair of earrings

If you give Nadim a mouse...

This reminds me of some chilly English picnics I went on in my youth. The grassy field in the picture is a furry green sweater.

Prom night in Mouseland

Coupla guys, waiting around

This young mouse is going to NYC with her aunt Laura...she hopes to have a book contract in her little suitcase when she returns! Her dress ...

illustrations were painted with three-hair brush and the aid of a magnifying glass

This pair looks eerily like my sons

a fierce game of mouse lacrosse

Closeup of a portrait in one of the houses, painted on a necklace pendant

Happy Easter from the Easter Mouse

Mama mouse with newborn, sitting in one of a pair of armchairs I made. Standard dollhouse miniatures don't work for mice because their ...

Six sisters, decked out in pink. These were for a children's story I was working on.

I spent the weekend carving this fainting couch

She is reading under an ancestral portrait, painted on an earring. The window is a glass button and the fireplace is carved from basswood.

Lovesick mouse, pining on a pincushion

The bathtub is an eyecup

This reminds me of an old goat cart my father used to pull us in when we were little. The cart is made out of a candy box.

This is a scene outside the gourd house..I made this maybe eight years ago. The mice are somewhat more primitive than the ones I'm maki...

A tray of mice, ready for their closeups. Or maybe cat canapes.

The woodstove is a salt cellar

My Fred Flintstone photo booth

I'm trying out a scene for a children's book illustration here. The house is made out of dictionary and book covers. Roof is an ...

Mama will soon be awake

This shows a week's evolution of mouse chairs. They're constructed out of old rulers, which are made from nice old VG fir, and easy...

This was in honor of my friend's 50th birthday. The cake stand is made from a part of a chess piece and a filagree earring. The swag ...

The pram is made from a walnut shell with a hairpin handle. The wheels are black wooden discs between clothing snaps and eyelets.

Close-up of a large gourd house. I carved the door and window from pieces of wood, and used some great hinges from a now defunct miniature ...

Inside the gourd house. The other half of the lid forms the hearth.

The mice are made out of felt and pipe-cleaners, and their eyes are black beads

The little guitar is carved out of wood, with nylon thread strings.

This is an interior I've been working on recently. The tabletop is made out of a mousetrap.

An illustration of "The Ballad of Grace Darling": "She pulled away on the rolling sea over the waters blue, 'Help! Help!...

My first mouse house. The wood stove is made out of a poppy pod.

These goofballs were made for a counting book ...this page was: "Five, six, show off tricks"