Holiday wishes!

Well, it's clear that over the holidays I need to make myself a lightbox.  I had a ton of really cute designs to list for Christmas, but the weather in Toronto did not cooperate.  It was either overcast, drizzling, or windy every single day since the beginning of December.  I shouldn't complain because we've hard record warmth as well, but the weather we had did not allow me to take pictures of my designs.  I need to set up an indoor space to get this done, obviously.  In the meantime, here are some sneak peeks.  :)

Yummi Sushi (I've been rewatching Buffy lately, and her pjs spurred me to make this set)

 Call of the Sea

 Three Little Bears

I've been a really prolific pen pal writer lately, and I'm super proud of myself for that.  Of note is that I found another new pen pal, this one in Ireland, and sent off  a letter to her that included some free stationery. I've also been drinking a lot of David's Tea lately.  Coincidence?  I think not!  :D

Mail call!  This cute envelope came from a Canadian pen pal who reminded me that great envelopes don't always have to be super elaborate.

To send back to her, I tried my hand at another envelope made from calendars.  The charities I donate to monthly always send me a calendar at the end of the year, I think to try and convince me to continue my monthly donation the following year.  I keep telling them it isn't necessary, but they don't listen to me.  I end up with 5 different calendars for the year, and I never use a single one.  I've decided to re-purpose them for pen pal letters.  This time I tried sprucing it up with a funky lining too.

This one came in time for Halloween, and I've been super delinquent about replying.  I've gotten started on it finally and I think I'm up to 10 A4 Novi Tomoe River sheets.  :)  One day I'll finally finish it and send it off though, Michelle, I swear!  Michelle has sent me a lot of gorgeous envelopes, but I think this one is in my top five.  

These came from a pen pal in the UK.  The paper for the envelopes are amazing!  Thanks Adrienne.  :) 

This fun fountain pen sticker came in on the back of an envelope from a pen pal in Toronto.  She is a friend from the Toronto pen meet ups who bought a pen from me at the Scriptus 2015 show.  I wanted to see how the pen wrote, so she sent me a letter.  I sent a reply and now we're pen pals.  See what I did there?  :D  I'm sneaky when it comes to drumming up pen pals for myself.

If I don't write again before Christmas, I hope everyone has a great holidays season, whatever you celebrate.  I'm planning on just having a small family dinner on the 25th, mostly vegan.  I have grudgingly agreed to let someone else bring in a small amount of turkey breast for my 90 year old aunt who doesn't "get" the whole "vegan thing".   But that's it!  Other than that, my best friend is making yummy chicken seitan pot pies, I'm making sweet potato mash with maple syrup and summertime succotash, and my mom is bringing carrot salad with apples and pineapples.  I'm hoping my friend will also make me a pear and blueberry pie.   :)

Happy holidays, everyone!  I hope you all get some time to sit down and write letters during the break.