Kerridwen Henry: blue-haired mama, teacher, designer, and idealist

I would love it if you could visit my online store, Little Characters, to see a great selection of my unique drawings on baby/toddler onesies, T-shirts, and bibs. This store is definitely an expression of me.

While you're surfing the web, you might like to get involved with my Little Characters Baby Clothes store by voting on the cutest design, sharing the strangest baby nickname you ever heard, or getting in on a debate about dressing kids as Little Democrats.

In the summer of 08,right around the time my son, Cai, turned one, I decided to get back in touch with my artistic side.

Since I was very little, I have loved to draw. When I was an elementary student, I was a latchkey kid, and I loved to pass the hours with a stack of white paper and a pencil, drawing picture after picture of cartoon people while the TV blared away. My parents always found me surrounded by a flurry of white paper.

I continued to draw a lot in high school, but I kind of lost that part of myself as a young adult. My best friend bought me a beautiful box of colored pencils and encouraged me to draw as a healthy distraction when my first marriage ended. That was an inspiration to me, but I still struggled to find a purpose or direction for any art.

After my son was born, I finally found my muse. I have always loved to draw people, and now I've got babies on the brain, so I started to draw little cartoon babies that express a unique personality or style . . . little punks, hippie babies, future geeks . . . before I knew it, I had pages and pages of ideas. I now spend about three hours a day working on my own shop, Little Characters, where people can buy T-shirts, onesies, and bibs featuring my original artwork.

(The photo shows me happily drawing away during Cai's nap)

(along with my oh-so-attractive double chin and pimple)

This infant/toddler T-shirt has an original drawing of a baby wearing a helmet and sticking his tongue out. It says, "Your Mother Was a Hamster . . . and Your Father Smelt of Elderberries!"

I designed it with love and officially notified Monty Python to make sure it was okay. You can see other baby clothes with my parodies of television and movies at Little Characters.

This baby onesie has an original drawing of a toddler standing with a fur-lined helmet surrounded by little henchman. It says, "We are the Knights who say . . . GOO!".

I plan to draw another design inspired by Monty Python's Holy Grail: I Fart in your General Direction and a couple inspired by Monty Python's Flying Circus: I Don't Like Spam and Ministry of Silly Walks. Check Little Characters to see when they're available.

This image is an original drawing by child artist, Hannah. I hope it encourages you to follow your heart and follow these links.

Doctors Without Borders effectively gets doctors and medicine where they're most needed. You don't have to be a bleeding heart liberal to want to prevent kids from dying of diarrhea.

Heifer International really makes it fun to be generous. You get to pick out animals to help poor families become self-reliant. One of my favorite wedding gifts was a donation of rabbits (quite appropriate!)

The Human Rights Campaign is appropriately named, because LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues are human rights issues. Join me in standing on the side of love.

The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a group that is guided by religious values but does not use any donations to fund proselytizing.

The Pajama Program donates pajamas and bedtime books to kids and teens who really need them. You can read more about this fantastic charity at Kab's Pajama Program Lens.