Sunday, December 25, 2011

The X-mas Card That Wasn't




Every year, for Christmas, we spend a weekend baking gingerbread cookies, and another weekend rushing out the standard photo Christmas card from Wal-Mart with a picture of the girls —usually taken on summer vacation.

This year, I thought I'd tie the two chores together with a single fishy theme. The cookies would be starfish, dolphins, seahorses and turtles, and for the card, I planned to create some custom art showing the household as a a family of fish. We got the cookies done, and I even got Anne Marie to approve the sketch above for the card. But sadly, that's as far as I got.

Maybe next year.

7 comments:

  1. En ce moment je peins aussi des poissons!!!... Mais ils n'ont pas de lunettes!!!
    gros bisous à vous.

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  2. Wait a minute, Chuck. So you're saying Christmas is a hectic and busy time of year and not every one of the art projects in your head get done?

    Inconceivable!

    Looks good, though. Maybe we'll see it next year?

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  3. red fish, blue fish, old fish, Chuck fish! Very nice - I liked the pic of the cookies too...too nice to eat - not.

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  4. I love it! It makes me think of the Incredible Mr. Limpet! Maybe next year, do the photo card but put the sketch on the other side.

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  5. Those caricatures are fun – especially the one of you. I guess an illustrator’s kids just have to get used to being portrayed as fish, poissons, and what not.

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  6. Thanks, guys!
    The fish may never see the light of day, but the cookies will get eaten!

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