Fairy art and pontifications of a benign sort.

[merimask]

Gift art for shvetufae .
 Is it tacky to show off someone's gift art in your own journal first?  Hmm...  Not sure of the faux pas factor here, so, no offense intended. 

I think she turned out looking warm and breezy and summery (three things I wish I were right now, in fact!).    I left her offset because:  A... I just liked it that way and B... she'd make a great icon, and there's plenty of space for text there.  *hug*  Hope you like her, Shveta.  :-)  I sort of loosely based her on some pictures I saw of you...not that you have pointy ears or anythin' like that.

The other one...eh.  Not so much.  I'm unhappy with it so I think I'll hang onto her and mess with her some more.  This is why I drew two...I figured one was bound to work.  How many artists employ backup fairies as part of their arsenal?  Not very freaking many, I bet.  *is a smart monkey*

It's snowing here, again!  I think I'll take Kiba out for a snowy beach romp.  Soon it'll get too cold to splash in the shallows...even for a husky.  Once the ice starts forming I get paranoid about taking him anywhere near water (I nearly lost my old Tucker-dog in a deep frozen pond once that way).  Huskies!  Cute, pretty, fun-loving, but REALLY not that bright when it comes to practical stuff.  My dog is just a handsome twinkie.

Everyone on my F-list is quiet and/or depressed.  Oh, people.  *hug*  I certainly know how it is.  I get seasonal blues because of the serious lack of sunlight around here, and I also remember the stress of mid terms and finals and such, plus all the holiday hoo-haw is enough to bewilder and dismay just about anyone.  

But you know, I do believe that happiness is a choice.  This season is like a fight for me, every day, to remain productive, busy, and happy.   Each day that I finish a piece, or do something towards furthering my career, or even go for a long walk with the dog...I see it as a little victory.  I know it sounds stupid but it's all those tiny battles won that add up to good days, decent weeks, bearable months.  

Just, you know...be nice to yourselves.    Be sure to find something, even ONE little thing, every day,  that you can be proud of or happy about.  If nothing good is happening,  go make something good happen (if all else fails I take a hot shower and put on some cheerful-smelling lotion from The Body Shop or something like that...at least I can always smell great!).

It's just that I've been down before and I have had to deal with a LOT of unbelieveably nasty crap in my life...and I know now that it's so easy to succumb but it's much better to fight.  Some of the stuff I went through last year was so incredibly depressing, and yet finding those bright spots was the thing that kept me going.  My stepping stones looked like scented lotions, pieces of art, journal entries, unexpected gifts in the mail from friends far away, light-hearted online chats...and then one day I was on the other side of the whole mess and thinking "that wasn't too terrible".  Because really, none of it is all that bad.  Everything is transitory...especially the crappy parts.

So!  Everyone, keep an eye on the mail in the next couple of weeks.   I'm sending out the holiday swag soon and you're all on my list.   :-)   A little somethin' somethin' for everyone.