@Vera Lisa Smetzer
@veralisa.bsky.social
💕 Romance author at Love Inspired/Harlequin. ☕️📖
"Journey to Forgiveness" is a second chance romance set on a flower farm in Maine. August 2026. Avail. to pre-order.
Photography: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/vera-smetzer
"Journey to Forgiveness" is a second chance romance set on a flower farm in Maine. August 2026. Avail. to pre-order.
Photography: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/vera-smetzer
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
Hope you enjoyed today's celebration of women printmakers! 🧡💛🤎
Have a great day xx
Have a great day xx
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hope you enjoyed today's celebration of women printmakers! 🧡💛🤎
Have a great day xx
Have a great day xx
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
'Wheelbarrow Washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
DEADLINE EXTENDED until 11/14!
Calling 5-13 y/o kids! We need writing, art, and photos to publish for Issue 8: Air. 🌪️
November might be blustery, but creativity tames the squalls. Our mentors can't wait to help hone your talent! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#parents
Calling 5-13 y/o kids! We need writing, art, and photos to publish for Issue 8: Air. 🌪️
November might be blustery, but creativity tames the squalls. Our mentors can't wait to help hone your talent! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#parents
a tornado is moving over a dirt road in the middle of a field
ALT: a tornado is moving over a dirt road in the middle of a field
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
DEADLINE EXTENDED until 11/14!
Calling 5-13 y/o kids! We need writing, art, and photos to publish for Issue 8: Air. 🌪️
November might be blustery, but creativity tames the squalls. Our mentors can't wait to help hone your talent! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#parents
Calling 5-13 y/o kids! We need writing, art, and photos to publish for Issue 8: Air. 🌪️
November might be blustery, but creativity tames the squalls. Our mentors can't wait to help hone your talent! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#parents
Portland, Maine! Happy Halloween! 🍁👻
Portland, US, annyal event known as the "Standup Paddleboard Witch Paddle" #womensart
(Image S.Bugarsky)
(Image S.Bugarsky)
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Portland, Maine! Happy Halloween! 🍁👻
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
I couldn’t bear to leave these leaves 🍂
October 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I couldn’t bear to leave these leaves 🍂
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps:
(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.
Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit
(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.
Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit
a cartoon of a woman hugging a book standing in front of a store that says support indie bookshops
Alt: Illustration of smiling person hugging a book. In the background is a friendly-looking bookstore with lighted windows, text on wall reads "Support Indie Bookshops."
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps:
(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.
Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit
(1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time.
Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit
👍
Libraries are so cool. Whenever I'm away from home and need a place to hang out between things, I find a library. There's a bathroom, a water fountain, chairs, and I can read, meditate, use the computers, or just be, and no one tries me make me buy anything.
September 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
👍
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
💖🦋
I raised some monarchs this summer. Releasing them all grown up has lightened my heart in these turbulent times.
August 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
💖🦋
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
When you see an excellent tree on a walk , there is nothing stopping you from leaning close to it & gently whispering “You’re doing a great job, thank you”.🌳 🌲
August 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
When you see an excellent tree on a walk , there is nothing stopping you from leaning close to it & gently whispering “You’re doing a great job, thank you”.🌳 🌲
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
#VerseThursday #kidlit Book of the Day: You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems #family #friends #imagination #poetry from @candlewickpress asuen.com/youre-a-poet/ #EduSky 📚👍
August 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#VerseThursday #kidlit Book of the Day: You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems #family #friends #imagination #poetry from @candlewickpress asuen.com/youre-a-poet/ #EduSky 📚👍
Adorable!
Since summer in the forest glade was rainy, little Edmund sat down in his favorite armchair, covered his feet with a blanket because he knows he gets cold after sitting still for too long, and started reading.
#kidlitart
#childrensbookillustration
#readingillustration
#kidlitart
#childrensbookillustration
#readingillustration
August 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Adorable!
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
For those who care about what's happening in the world but sometimes need a timeline cleanse, feel free to follow my #Uplift feed:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly (I try to update at least once a day), criteria unapologetically subjective.
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly (I try to update at least once a day), criteria unapologetically subjective.
August 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
For those who care about what's happening in the world but sometimes need a timeline cleanse, feel free to follow my #Uplift feed:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly (I try to update at least once a day), criteria unapologetically subjective.
bsky.app/profile/debb...
Hand-curated by yours truly (I try to update at least once a day), criteria unapologetically subjective.
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
It is an amazing feeling when my 3 year old, who has been watching me work on my picture book the last few months, decides to doodle the characters herself and make up stories for them. ❤️
#kidlit #kidlitart
#kidlit #kidlitart
August 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It is an amazing feeling when my 3 year old, who has been watching me work on my picture book the last few months, decides to doodle the characters herself and make up stories for them. ❤️
#kidlit #kidlitart
#kidlit #kidlitart
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
Tossing it out there one last time #kidlitart ...Illustration Institute based on Peaks Island in Maine has fantastic free programming. I'll be attending a workshop with LeUyen Pham on Wednesday - I think there are still a few spots left. More info: www.illustrationinstitute.org/summer-2025-...
Summer 2025 Events — Illustration Institute
www.illustrationinstitute.org
August 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tossing it out there one last time #kidlitart ...Illustration Institute based on Peaks Island in Maine has fantastic free programming. I'll be attending a workshop with LeUyen Pham on Wednesday - I think there are still a few spots left. More info: www.illustrationinstitute.org/summer-2025-...
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
I often think the back of a sunflower is just as awesome as the front! I photographed this one in a field full of sunflowers in Somerset last week. I hope you all have a great Monday, and may it be as bright and cheerful as the petals of this flower 🌻
#MondayMotivation #flowers
#MondayMotivation #flowers
August 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I often think the back of a sunflower is just as awesome as the front! I photographed this one in a field full of sunflowers in Somerset last week. I hope you all have a great Monday, and may it be as bright and cheerful as the petals of this flower 🌻
#MondayMotivation #flowers
#MondayMotivation #flowers
Interesting!
ProvinceTown August 2025
#Provincetown #Photography #StreetPhotography #ClassicMono #Leica #M11Monochrome #EastCoastKin
#Provincetown #Photography #StreetPhotography #ClassicMono #Leica #M11Monochrome #EastCoastKin
August 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Interesting!
three drops of rain
a greeting card from heaven
midsummer heat
Issa
a greeting card from heaven
midsummer heat
Issa
August 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
three drops of rain
a greeting card from heaven
midsummer heat
Issa
a greeting card from heaven
midsummer heat
Issa
Helpful post... thank you, Angela! 💌
With the (already high) cost of living climbing ever higher, I've updated this post & thought I'd put it on the radar for artists who are trying to make a go of it & are researching options for doing so on a shoestring budget. If FREE sounds doable, you may find the info in this piece helpful. 👩🎨🫶
Getting Started as an Artist on a Budget
This post is for anyone interested in budget-friendly (read: FREE) options for presenting, and selling, their artwork online. I know from ex...
angelamariemorton.blogspot.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Helpful post... thank you, Angela! 💌
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
I'm looking for an outfit that says "knows how to have a good time" but also "lives in a haunted grandfather clock with an origami swan"
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I'm looking for an outfit that says "knows how to have a good time" but also "lives in a haunted grandfather clock with an origami swan"
I wrote on her post: "I hear you on the anxiety of the news. Truly lovely interruption of finding a soothing calmness in the amidst of it all."
We all need the blessings of art...
We all need the blessings of art...
Titled this piece this morning and felt some of my anxiety release. Wrote a bit about it on my blog: guerzonmills.com/blog/let-the...
Let the Earth Hold You, encaustic mixed media including hornet nest paper, 10x8 inches.
#encaustic #mixedmedia #art #natureinart #earthyart
Let the Earth Hold You, encaustic mixed media including hornet nest paper, 10x8 inches.
#encaustic #mixedmedia #art #natureinart #earthyart
July 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wrote on her post: "I hear you on the anxiety of the news. Truly lovely interruption of finding a soothing calmness in the amidst of it all."
We all need the blessings of art...
We all need the blessings of art...
Beautiful! 💜
the fragrance of orchids
from a butterfly's wings
perfuming my clothes
Basho
from a butterfly's wings
perfuming my clothes
Basho
July 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Beautiful! 💜
💚
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
💚
Reposted by @Vera Lisa Smetzer
flowers leaning into
the path of the sun
early summer rain
Basho
the path of the sun
early summer rain
Basho
May 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
flowers leaning into
the path of the sun
early summer rain
Basho
the path of the sun
early summer rain
Basho