Street Address

Austin, TX 78704

Phone Number

illustration • design • lettering • calligraphy

Your Custom Text Here

Shop:: Art + Cards

← Back to Shop:: Art + Cards

Flash Sale Items

Jrocro Flash Sale-01.png

Jrocro Flash Sale-01.png

sold out

Flash Sale Items

20.00

Add To Cart

Follow me on Instagram @j_ro_cro

That’s it! Super easy!*
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *not pictured: mechanical robot bassinet, pinch of sorcery, and the blanket I throw over us while nursing to trick her - much like a parrot- into thinking it’s dark out

#latenightnursingfeed
#jcroillo

People said a lot of weird and unwelcome things to me while I was pregnant about how I was going to forget about the dog once the baby arrived. That’s ok- that may be true from their experiences. But in this house? This dog doesn’t get forgotten. First of all, she’s way too clingy to ever forget she exists for even a minute.
But really, she’s always around but rarely in the way. She’s gentle with James and concerned when she cries. She taught me patience and how to wake up in the middle of the night to care for something that needs my help (or just my opposable thumbs I guess, to open doors). She’s the OG 3AM snuggler, an example of loving someone unconditionally without them having verbal skills to express it back, and was great practice for Matt and I to learn how to care for something together. She is my loyal companion and fierce protector when Matt travels, she’s my buddy and my first baby. Of course there are days where I don’t have the bandwidth to meet all of her needs (her many... many emotional needs) but that happened before James, too.
I’m aware of how gag inducing this is but she made me feel like a mama first- and I’m better for James because of her.
#mozzarellaastrella

👻 I drew this before I had a baby for @craftandboogie and haven’t drawn a thing since, but am seeing everyone’s #inktober2019 posts and wanted to feel like I was participating for a hot second!! 🕷~ Goals this month ~🕷
• get to a pumpkin patch with minimal crying from both baby and me • find those weird Palmer peanut butter chocolate coin candies and then eat a bunch • come up with and execute a Halloween costume for James that college me would be proud of • find a way to watch The Witches, my fave spooky movie from childhood and possibly adulthood!

8.27.19 :: On her own timeline, our daughter (!) James Juliette arrived - with a full head of hair and no idea how impatiently her parents had been waiting to meet her.

We are of course, desperately in love, and feeling so lucky. Also I want to physically eat her up, she is so delicious. (We had the nerve to bring her home on Mozzarella’s 3rd birthday but even she is smitten 💞)

Just waitin for the main event, now.

When you’re not even born yet, so you don’t even follow any design influencers or have a Pinterest account, but you get the nicest room in the house.

There’s always at least one... so someone may as well get credit for it, right?

Finally got to send this card this week and did a happy dance- @paperepiphanies and I worked hard on iterating her facial expression and body language to make this card “work.” Between her cheeky wink and the hiding of the small gift (and sure, the bows on her shoes because WHY NOT) we were really happy with the final result.

All #jrocroxpe cards always available at PaperEpiphanies dot com! Or chat up your local stationery shop and be like hey, I need to send THIS CARD, SPECIFICALLY so please get some! 💌🎀🎁

In an age-old race against the biological clock: trying to wrap up work projects before The Child decides to make its grand debut and I don’t see my art supplies for a few months. 🙃