Happy New Year, 2012!

Here comes Baby New Year!

Happy New Year from Marla, David, Sammy, Kitty, Wally, Yati, Mailbot and all of the residents of Kitschatoria!

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Santa Robot

Happy Holidays from Marla and David! Ho, ho, ho, beep, beep!

It’s easy to make your own Santa-bot.
Here’s how:

Acquire the following materials:
Filing cabinet
Space heater
Bundt pan
Cream funnel
Candle sticks
Heating duct
Flexible tubing
Oscilloscope
Flashlights
Ceramic kitty cat
Wire whisk (under mitten, so not shown)
Strainer ladle (under mitten, so not shown)
Roasting pan
Mailbox (large, rural route style)
Training wheels
Assorted nuts, bolts, rivets
Drill and bits in various sizes

Next, find somebody with mechanical aptitude who can put it all together for you.

Now, dress up your robot in a Santa hat, a charming hand-knit scarf and a pair of mittens. Don’t forget to wrap a string of Christmas lights around its middle!

DONE!

Christmas in the dollhouse

December is here! It’s time to make your Christmas cookies. Sometimes you might feel like there’s somebody looking over your shoulder, but don’t worry! Everything’s fine! Who doesn’t love Santa?

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Happy Januaria!

Not much has happened creatively around here lately, unless you count this festive diorama that I fashioned to rekindle the memory of my daughter’s Thankgiving-tide wisdom tooth extraction for many holidays to come. I call it “A Very Wisdom Christmas.”

Januaria is just around the corner. The gifts are all 75% off. Don’t forget to stock up on root vegetables. I learned the hard way — don’t put the candles directly into the hot casserole dish, as the roasted root goodness will melt the wax all over the place.

Yarn Shop Holiday Card Art

I just finished this illustration for the Bozeman Yarn Shop’s 2010 holiday card. Barb makes these up into Christmas cards with a knitting pattern on the back and gives packets of them to her first 40 customers on the day after Thanksgiving. (She sells them, too.) This illustration is a continuation of last year’s picture, which showed the same animals knitting and weaving (how the heck they do it without opposable thumbs is truly a Christmas mystery). This year they’re exchanging the gifts they made. I look forward to drawing Barb’s holiday cards each year. Now, if I would only get to work on some for myself…

Warm and Wooly Tidings holiday card for the Bozeman Yarn Shop

Just incase anybody was curious, here’s what last year’s card looked like.

Warm Wishes illustration for the Yarn Shop's 2009 holiday card

Holiday Cards

I’m trying out some ideas for holiday cards but I can’t decide which I like best. Too cutesy? Too negative? Not negative enough?