Striped Pear Studio

Whenever I am composing a paragraph or two about myself, I'm never sure if I should write in third-person, as if to give the impression that I am too busy or too important to write a paragraph about myself. I guess I just shattered that perception, so I might as well just tell you about myself. I'm Kirsten, an illustrator from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I live with my husband, Chris, and our adorable Icelandic kitty, Eyja Fjalla Jökullsdóttir, whom we adopted from a cat shelter in Iceland and named after the famous Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, but we simply call her Eyja (pronounced A-ya).

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