LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Cartoons

Ah! It's the time of year to celebrate LOVE! And what better way to do it than to draw love and valentine cartoons about the ups and downs of everyone's favorite subject. I'll be posting some new and old cartoons now till V Day. Hope you enjoy them!

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Happy Birthday to Me (and Everyone Else Born on January 3)!

Some people have birthdays in May or June when everything is green and there's no competition from big name holidays to overshadow your special day. Not so, us who are born on January 3rd the traditional day of going back to school or work or where ever you go to uncelebrate once you're burned out on a month of celebrations. So unfair. And I especially have a month of celebrating to deal with. See chart below:

On the other hand, this is the cusp of a brand new year! Today, January 3rd, is just the beginning. We are on top! All those other events have a whole year before we get to them! Happy Birthday, Kyle and Brian. I know you know what I'm talking about.

Happy New Year!

10 Days of Home-Made Christmas Cards: Day 10

Merry Christmas y'all. A very special hohoho to the fabulous followers of this blog! Thank you! You give credibility to this place! The following card is this year's. The Koala is based on a Koala teddy bear I once had. Following the art is a photo. More on that at the end.

Now for the photo. This was taken at Sagamore Hill, Teddy Roosevelt's Long Island home, back when I was about 19. I asked the two Rangers, who were stationed there, to pose with me while I pretended to be apprehended for who knows what anymore and the Ranger on the left is holding my Koala. You can kind of make it out, there. It may be the only photo of it so look closely! Have a fabulous rest of the Christmas Day. Cheers!

10 Days of Home-Made Christmas Cards: Day 9

Here is a card from 2003. In it a short haired kitty grows longer fur to keep him warm in the winter. For inspiration... I morphed our kitty Conor Makem into his brother Big Eric. Hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas Eve!

10 Days of Home-Made Christmas Cards: Day 8

This card is one of my very favorites. I know, I've probably said that for each post. This one features the "Terrible Tea Time" ladies. I hope you can read it. Honestly...my hand writing HAS improved since 1991 when I drew this up.
At the end of the cards look for a special holiday extra.

We were having a raffle at the library for Patron Appreciation Day on Wednesday (the 21st) and a patron donated an item that I REEEEAAALLLLYY wanted. It was Christmas in a jar.

It was perfect. It really captured everything about decorating for the holidays without all the bother. Christmas in a Jar is all you would ever need.

The only problem was...the staff wasn't reallly supposed to try to win. So I put in John's name. Hey, he's a patron. Right? Well, almost. But I knew I would never win. The odds were against me. Then, yesterday, I got a call from Tami, the Assistant Director. She said... to come to the library. She had something to tell me. So I went in and she, Patience and Randi surprised me!

They had basically put in names of relatives so that if any of them drew a name, they would give it to me!

That was SOOOO nice! So thanks, ladies. Have a very Merry Christmas!