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big girl pantiesPut Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal With It – Dolly Mama artwork featuring a sassy woman holding signs

Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal With It

It started with one long-sleeve shirt. For me. Sixteen shirts later, Joey's bringing back a Dolly Mama classic — and reminding us why we've always been tougher than we think. 💪❤️

big mouthFunny Dolly Mama illustration of a stylish woman with the saying 'I tried to keep my mouth shut. Worst three minutes of my life.

The Day Oprah Winfrey Shut Me Up (It Didn't Last)

I've been told my entire life that I talk too much. I disagree. But there was one moment — live on The Oprah Winfrey Show — when I had absolutely nothing to say. Here's that story, and why I've sto...

beachDolly Mama illustration of a stylish woman in a sun hat holding a cocktail with speech bubbles reading "I can HEAR the ocean. It's telling me to find a sandBAR."

Can I Please Finish Summer First?

I just got back from my first beach trip of the summer — and I'm already being ambushed by pumpkins. It's August. Can we please finish summer before we start feeling guilty about Halloween?

The Dolly Mama Diaries

A weekly dose of Dolly Mama humor about getting older, friendship, readers, chin hairs, and all the ridiculous things life throws at us. Because laughing is cheaper than therapy.

Behind the scenes art illustration – watch a Dolly Mama come to life – Dolly Mama
Funny entrepreneur women illustration – I built a website send help – Dolly Mama

I Built a Website. Send Help.

I decided to build a website with the same brain that forgets why I walked into a room. Here’s how that went.

Funny creative women illustration – being creative is exhausting – Dolly Mama

Being creative is exhausting.

What to do with old cookie tins...

Funny ADHD women illustration – Dolly Mamas and the squirrels – Dolly Mama

Dolly Mamas and the Squirrels

Squirrelly brain...

Funny women's illustration – reinventing yourself as an artist between midlife and what's next – Dolly Mama

Between Men-O-Pause and Dead

How to survive writing a book, starting over and dating.

Funny midlife humor illustration – pillow talk – Dolly Mama

Pillow Talk

The making of a craft video.

Funny women's humor illustration – boobs and spiders – Dolly Mama

Boobs and Spiders

ADHD and Procrastination

Funny midlife humor illustration – is crazy contagious – Dolly Mama

Is Crazy Contagious?

Embracing boundaries with crazy.

Art licensing tips illustration – how to license your art – Dolly Mama

How to license your art

Licensing your art with a saggy neck.

Funny relatable women illustration – making an ass out of myself again – Dolly Mama

Making an ass out of myself...again.

How Oprah shut me up...Love her!

Funny crafting women illustration – confessions of a fabric hoarder – Dolly Mama
Empowering women illustration – I am enough – Dolly Mama

I am enough

Hanging in the rabbit hole.

Funny midlife humor illustration – self help burnout – Dolly Mama

Self Help Burnout

Not being good enough.

Funny friendship illustration – girlfriends are the crazy stupid fun in life – Dolly Mama

Girlfriends are the Crazy Stupid Fun in Life.

Girlfriends are the good stuff.

Funny motherhood humor illustration – Queen Mother – Dolly Mama

Queen Mother

Surviving motherhood

Funny bold women's humor illustration – I don't give a sht – Dolly Mama

I don't give a SH*T!

Have you seen my glasses?

Funny women's humor illustration – belts buckles and crazy – Dolly Mama

Belts, Buckles and Crazy.

Life as an artist.