I am happy to introduce some of you to the magical world of Abrah Griggs, a Vermont artist and illustrator who has a wonderful and dysfunctional relationship with bugs, insects, and the far side of nature. She has just started offering her very brilliant and original mugs and postcards for sale.

Abrah lives in nature and loves to study the character of spiders, frogs, snails, butterflies, inchworms and other denizens of the outdoors. In many of her works, they speak. She is wary of bugs and insects but fascinated by them, and that is good for us.

She brings them vividly to life with with her notecard sets, imagination and badly needed humor. Her work is starkly original and very compelling. Between Gus and her sketches, I’m smiling all day.

I’ve ordered a mug and five notecards. I highly recommend taking a peek at her work.

It is very inexpensive but I doubt it will be inexpensive for long. Nobody else has notecards like this.