Mail of Holidays Past

I've been using my phone to take a lot of my mail photos lately, but I just used my real camera and realized I had quite a few photos on there too.
So without further ado...

Thanksgiving mail!

And when I got back from visiting family for Christmas, I had a lot of lovely mail waiting for me!

 mail, delicious mail!

Some awesome Star Wars stickers and a cool card from Tara

I love the Grinch!

Dana gave me this really cute Christmas tree card.
On the back was this sticker...

It's so perfect because her puppy's name is Olive. I think the sticker is from a book called "Olive, the other reindeer". And the photo is of Olive at her puppy school graduation! So cute!

 Not one, but two cards from Tenzin were waiting for me when I got home.

From guess who? StoneZebra of course!

A really fun envelope! I love bright envelopes! And a cool Dickens card from Becky

A horsey!! Christmas card from Alison (fellow LEP member) in South Africa.

I currently have 3 cards from Danielle that I need to respond to!

I've got a lot of writing to do! I can't wait to send everyone pink and red envelopes for Valentine's Day!

Incoming

from Taradactyl

from Adrienne

very cool stationery!

 

from Dana

from Connie

 I love the little mice on the front.

Graduation Cards

 a very grammar-y card. :-D

"You did well... now go do good."

annddd...

STAR WARS!!

I graduated with my Master's in French Language and Literature from Boston College, and I am soooo happy that I will never have to go back to school again!

No more papers!!

Marijane is a Graduation Girl

So my boyfriend's mom also just recently graduated with her Masters degree.  In their family the Junie B. Jones books are really big and there's one called Junie B. Jones is a Graduation Girl.  So Clay and his sister, Dana, wrote a Marijane is a Graduation Girl book! They did such an amazing job of mimicking the style and it is so damn hilarious.

I helped out by doing two illustrations for the book.  The  major plot point is that Marijane burns her graduation gown while ironing it. So here's that one:

And then I did one of Marijane:
 

Pencil and then watercolors.

Right now I just have my kids watercolor set, but I really don't mind. I have two easels at my parents house with oil paints and some nicer watercolors, but it always takes time to set up and feels so serious that it's more intimidating.  With these I just do stuff, and if it turns out nice it makes me happy.

Love and Crayons

Outgoing Crayon Mail

Incoming Crayon Mail

and some love...