Pick You Up Right Off The Ground.
Thank you so much for your kind responses to my Christmas Eve post! They meant a lot to me. I had a very pleasant Christmas with my family. It was a much-needed break, I think.
We hired a catsitter to look after Mabel and Dipper over Christmas, and we left her a Christmas card. She sent a text to Rei to say, 'Thank you for the card and the chocolates.'
We had not bought her chocolates.
We had accidentally left the card on our own household box of Quality Street.
Our poor catsitter probably went 'oh, they bought me chocolates, how nice' and then opened it and went '...oh, they bought me chocolates and then... ate half of them and left the wrappers, not even making an effort to hide their crime.'
I received paints for Christmas, so I made a second effort to paint along with a Bob Ross video! (The video in question is here, if you want to have a go.) Somehow it managed to look even less like the original than my first, although I have at least now grasped that you can dilute acrylics and don't just have to use them neat.
Bob Ross's original, 'The Footbridge'.
You may have noticed I've somehow failed to include the footbridge, so I suppose this is just called 'The'.
I've also received, from my brother, the most frustrating jigsaw puzzle I've seen in my life.
I burst out laughing when I unwrapped it. I have not made a great deal of progress. It's even more annoying than it looks.
('But I thought you liked Frozen,' Fred said, all innocence, in response to my look.)
We hired a catsitter to look after Mabel and Dipper over Christmas, and we left her a Christmas card. She sent a text to Rei to say, 'Thank you for the card and the chocolates.'
We had not bought her chocolates.
We had accidentally left the card on our own household box of Quality Street.
Our poor catsitter probably went 'oh, they bought me chocolates, how nice' and then opened it and went '...oh, they bought me chocolates and then... ate half of them and left the wrappers, not even making an effort to hide their crime.'
I received paints for Christmas, so I made a second effort to paint along with a Bob Ross video! (The video in question is here, if you want to have a go.) Somehow it managed to look even less like the original than my first, although I have at least now grasped that you can dilute acrylics and don't just have to use them neat.
Bob Ross's original, 'The Footbridge'.
You may have noticed I've somehow failed to include the footbridge, so I suppose this is just called 'The'.
I've also received, from my brother, the most frustrating jigsaw puzzle I've seen in my life.
I burst out laughing when I unwrapped it. I have not made a great deal of progress. It's even more annoying than it looks.
('But I thought you liked Frozen,' Fred said, all innocence, in response to my look.)