late Easter parcel – perfect timing

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art, crafts, drawing, late Easter, parcel, post

This morning a parcel arrived filled with Easter treats – my brother and his family had sent me some sweet reminders that they were thinking of me. But the nicest thing hidden in between the marzipan eggs and other delicious German sweets was a hand drawn me an Easter Egg.

He is four-and-a-half years old (a half is really important at that age) and he is quite the little artist. I have a few of his creations and was delighted to add another work of art to my kitchen gallery.

And I have to admit it was a lovely way to start the day – week even. Especially since I feel quite stressed with the work load I am currently carrying. In a few weeks time I have to hand in so much work for my Masters and since the semester is coming to an end there is a lot of grading piling up. So the sweet pick-me-up was greatly appreciated and  made me smile.

So even if it was a little late for Easter the parcel arrived at the perfect time !

my nephews art work

my nephews birthday

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birthday story, Children Stories, drawing, family, Pirates, writing, writing childrens storys

Today is my youngest nephews birthday, he is turning three and he is a proper big boy now.

When I went over to Germany to visit my family in August he demanded that I should tell him some stories. And since he was (and still is) in a pirate-phase I invented a pirate called Captain Funny One Tooth and made up adventurous tales to go along with him.

On Friday when I spoke to my nephew, he told me that I needed to write down the stories because his silly-billy parents didn’t know them. So yesterday, I sat down and wrote him a birthday story, a new story, one I hadn’t told him yet.

And to go along with story, since he can’t read, I drew him some pictures on my computer. I am particularly proud of the captain himself … and I hope my little nephew will like him too.

Captain Funny One Tooth – wearing his favorite T-Shirt

first attempt

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art, arts, drawing, illustration, inner artist, pencils

I have no idea where the time went today. But at least I picked up my pencils again after many many years of neglecting my inner artist. And since all i did was do a few sketching exercises I don’t have much to show. But here you are my first attempts at drawing, so be gentle with any critique. And I promise to practise!