Caveman and Ladybug, 5"x 7", watercolor and colored pencil 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Watercolor Pet Portraits!
Auntie A was having a birthday! I love her, and she loves her many creatures, so I decided to give her small size watercolor portraits of her menagerie, glorifying each one in 5 x 7 inch detail! 
The Vacuum: A Guest Post Letter!
The Caveman's grandparents gifted him a vacuum for Christmas! Finally, a real power tool expressly for him that the family not only allowed the spawn to use, but actually encouraged such usage! The troglodyte's enthusiasm sparked this letter written by my father to my hyper-cleaning grandmother, Mutti:
Dear Mutti,
There is absolutely no doubt that the "Mutti" gene skipped a generation or two; however, you will be overjoyed this Christmas season to know that this recessive gene has re-emerged in your great grandson, the Caveman. Santa showered him with many gifts on Christmas morning including an awesome drum set. Nevertheless, his favorite gift of all, is this deluxe cordless vacuum cleaner. Casey has had to charge it up three times already and the varnish is being sucked right off of her new wooden floors. Her favorite cat Olaf and her dog Daisy are nowhere to be found. They can't pry the darn thing out of Caveman's hand long enough to feed him. We invited him over to our house this afternoon for Auntie A's birthday party in the hope that he can clean up and vacuum after the celebration. He can't wait. It truly is the gift that keeps on giving!
Genetics can be a powerful and dangerous thing unless properly harnessed. I just thank God that I inherited the bald, weak mind, bad back, but good looking gene from you. What have you done Mutti? Love and Merry Christmas from your favorite son and husband's namesake!
Days of December!
Our December kicked off with the third birthday celebration of a little Caveman! He began his special day with reluctance and a repeated mantra, "I don't want a birthday! I don't want to be three, I want to be small like banana bread!", but he was quick to warm to the idea of a celebration once he realized that this type of annual event is accompanied by gift-giving! He was the proud recipient of several faux tools and a wheelbarrow, but the most special gift of all was a sweet needle-felted white rabbit created especially for him and felted independently with love and determination by the Dreamer!
Strawberry
Snowy
It seems that the Dreamer's classroom holiday party followed immediately on the heels of the Caveman's birthday, and for the event, we planned several sweet activities that included mixing hot cocoa jar gifts, caroling, painting salt dough ornaments, and cutting coffee filter snowflakes!
Next came Christmas, the long anticipated holiday! The kids had whispered their wishes to our resident elf and posted a letter to Santa Claus himself in the North Pole. The house was abuzz with excitement when Santa corresponded with the Dreamer. I am so grateful to the post office for being so considerate to have surprised us with such a magical envelope!
Christmas morning the spawn was surprised with drums and two female pet rats named Strawberry and Snowy!
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