My last snow-themed post of the week came from this coloring book and officially brings Christmas week to a close. Christmas itself hasn’t been stressful, which isn’t always the case. I managed to get everything done even though I left most of it until December. NOT Christmas things have been more stressful, but that’s just part of life. All the friends and family we communicated with in one format or another help keep things happy. We have so many and so much to be grateful for.
I hope this guy gives you a smile and serves as a reminder that shaking things up can sometimes be a good thing, and regardless, they settle down in time. I don’t know why his tree looks yellow. It’s green on the page.
ETA: I had a couple of fruit stickers I wanted to add to the page of fruit stickers in Wreck This Journal, and after I did that, I began flipping through the pages until I came to the one for “Rubbings.” It had a single entry on it (“Cowboy”), and I thought of my leather bracelet sitting just across the room on my bookshelf. So I did a rubbing of that, which seems right on this date.
Snow globes are so cool. They magically whisk away the tension and unhappyness and bring a sense of calm as they settle. The yellow tree may be due to the chemicals of the
yellowgreen and the reflected light tricking the photovoltaic sensor. There were lights in buildings in Virginia Tech that, although transmitting all colors of the visible spectrum (a white-ish halogen lamp), for some reason the digital cameras we had at the time pick up only one: green, if you stand directly under them. Lenses and exposures like to be tricky.A yellow tree in the snow globe is better than yellow snow in the snow globe, right? =)
PS- Someone (me), who spent a long time thinking of other cousins interests for gifts (from me), discovered a collection of glitter jars. Now, that would be pure evil, my more reasonable self said. But, then I spied a book of thousands of stickers of every day objects. I had to call my Mom the good news: I rejected the glitter, but I needed help letting go of the stickers. I did put the book away, but, alas, there were more smaller batches of stickers around the corner and that sealed the deal. One cousin is an artist, but I just couldn’t bare the thought of buying her even more colored pencils to add to her collection of color supplies, so I bought them for me (even though I do have Crayola Crayons in a Box, meh.) I spied also a 365 book of daily things to do with those. They seemed like good gift ideas, right? Well, this all boiled down to a pile of plastic gift cards yet again for the Aunt’s families, but I kept the book and pencils only to find that I haven’t owned a pencil sharpener since Virginia Tech, because the swift battle of the mechanical pencils won that revolution.
(An unstoppable plushy dinosaur with a pick up stick did become a real tangible present for an autistic santa-dressed cousin that grinned with his braces showing ear to ear. That was a six month wait for high school senior’s surprise whose grin was just that priceless! Some gifts are both ways.)
Get yourself a pencil sharpener and start using those pencils!
I love your story of your Santa-dressed cousin and a gift that made you as happy as it did him. =)