499 Pieces

Here's something else from Christmas: A 500 piece jigsaw puzzle!!!

It's a peacock, very colorful and looked like it would be challenging. It was, but I sometimes enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

As is oftentimes the case, however, got down to the end and there was one piece missing!!! There's your 499 piece jigsaw puzzle!!!

I circled where it's missing, because it's easy to miss if you don't know where it's at.

In other news, I picked up up a magnetic whiteboard. Figured I could have the boys come up with artwork to post on the 'fridge on a temporary basis. This is the first submission, done by the older boy.

We all know that feeling.

Next Stop: The Moon!!!

A while back, I did a little doodle of a spacecraft, something of a lander module.

Came out semi decent. Did a scan of it and 'shopped it into a lunar surface shot I found. Semi plausible.

Shortly after doing the drawing, though, it occurred to me that, when inverted, it looked quite a bit like an angry robot face!!!

Of course, I had to then 'shop it onto my bad robot cup drawing from a while ago!!!

Christmas Shirts

One of the things I did up for both my boys for Christmas were several shirts.

Since the older boy is quite about the Homestuck these days, I made him up a couple with that theme. He uses the "§" §ection sign in his online dealings, so I incorporated that in two of the three shirts I made up for him.

The first one pictured here has the Homestuck logo with the word "SBURB" beneath it, only of course I changed out the "S" to "§". Interestingly, the logo somehow mirrored, so true Homestuck fans will notice it's hinky.

The next one is John Egbert's "Ghostbuster" shirt. He's already got the glasses. If you look close, you can see him on his monitor. Now he's the Cosplay kid, too!!!

For the younger, he wanted a Minecraft Creeper hoodie, but those are expensive!!! I made him up a shirt, and he loves it!!! Unfortunately, the iron on transfers I used, it said to wash it after applying to make it relax and not be so stiff. Well, it made the unprinted area really show up on this particular one. Might be because it's a cheap T-shirt, none of the others had that problem. Trust me, it looked a lot better before it was laundered. Oh yea, there's the much searched for Diamond Sword again!!!

I didn't get a shot of the actual shirt, but here's the design I did up for the older boy, Fluttershy, with the word "Shy", once again modified. I put it on a yellow shirt, and it kind of bled through a little.

For the younger, he wanted DJ Pon3 and her bass cannon. Again, the color of the shirt affected the transfer some, but it works OK.

Lastly, one of his friends gave him the Yoda shirt.