Homemade Birthday Cheer

So I went into a reputable bookstore that shall remain anonymous to buy a birthday card for my Mom. I had previously intended to make her one, but got lazy/busy. After perusing the card section I settled on one with a creepy little dog straddling a gift in colourful wrapping paper.

The perfect card to profess my sentiments.

I took the card up to the counter to pay for it and the clerk rang it up and said,

"That'll be $10.42 please!"

Ex-squeeze me? Baking Powder? That's not the kind of money I like to throw down for one little card. So my frugal (cheap) nature carried me home to where I made this charming little keepsake.

On the inside it says something like "But I settled on something simple instead". Not very clever, but I feel that all the creative energy that went into the picture should be balanced by an equally unimaginative sentence.

On the back of the card I wrote

"Because I don't want to pay $10.00 for a card"

Happy Birthday Mom!

~Chris

Killing Time

I was teaching at Vanarts today and, inevitably, there are always some bits of downtime when the students don't need a whole lot in the way of feedback. I like to doodle during said downtime because if there's one thing that annoying ads before movies has taught me it's that downtime is BAAAAAD!

Everything was coloured at home.

~Chris