Frustration

 

This is me-- trying to get used to my new pen tablet yesterday.  I was very discombobulated--It's like trying to drive someone else's car.  I even got sad faces during the tutorial, how pathetic is THAT??  I think it will make my Photoshop work easier, eventually.   (This sketch does not represent me actually USING the pen tablet-- it was out the window in the snow at that point.)  

I'm doing better today-- I haven't rolled my eyes, not even once.

Illustration Friday-- Pioneer

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Saint Nicholas

 

Asher and I did some research on Saint Nicholas, and I remembered this painting I did a million years ago.  Well, almost a million.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

My Prince

Awww... I'd follow YOU anywhere!

Illustration Friday-- Undone

If you stop believing in Santa, does all the Christmas magic come undone?

 

This year was a milestone for our family.  (See my post on Dec. 12.)  I remember being told as a kid who was old enough to know better, (at Easter, probably to cushion the blow), and I thought it was just the coolest thing that my parents had pulled it off all those years!  I wasn't really expecting, as a parent, to be unable to determine Santa's status in my own  kids' minds.

Just two summers ago, it was revealed to me by my older son, Grayson, now 11, that he hadn't believed for a couple of years!  "It's just scientifically impossible" he said, but he also admitted that he was afraid it would all come to an end if we knew that he knew.  Asher, however, never doubted.  Until.... the wrapping paper he had seen in his stocking just last year was now being hauled out of the closet to be used as a family project!  Wait a minute!!  So, my husband and I had to go into "pick-up-the-pieces-and-make-this-okay" mode.  And, almost a week later, it is.  He does keep saying, "It WOULD be fun if..," and I keep thinking to myself, "Nothing has changed, my love, it will still be fun!"

Happy Birthday, Torrey!