the gift that keeps on giving
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Happy Wednesday. Today’s haiku comic is brought to you by the aggressive, crazy squirrels that live at my mom’s house. Did I tell you one must have got in her car a few months ago? The interior roof and visor fabrics are shredded. I was scared for her to drive it so I set out peanut butter and made sure there were no nibbles in it for a full day before she got in it again. Squirrels are adorable but a bit neurotic…not the sort of pal you want to road trip with. Anyway, the peanut butter remained untouched and the car hasn’t been tore up again, so I guess he’s moved on. We are probably to blame though because we feed them raw peanuts by hand and they pretty much run up to the car or front door when they see us coming.
I finished a new art doll. Her name is Moulin and you can read her little back story and see more pics on my art blog.
moulin - art doll by calan ree
Remember last week when Anne said my elf art doll resembled Eminem in that one photo? I did some research and she’s totally right!! I think they might be related….
Eminelf
In other news, this weekend is the big, badass, alternative craft fair known as Atomic HOliday Bazaar. I’ll be there for the Saturday shows (both day and night…like 12 hours, omg!) and then all day on Sunday as well. The Saturday night show has the live music and fashion shows and is the night to come if you like a little booze and party action with your handmade holiday shopping. If you want it chill, come to the day show on Saturday or on Sunday.
I will take next week off from the comic for sure. Between work commitments and the two trip to Sarasota for Atomic, there is no way I’ll have time to do a comic. See you the following week!
December 8th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I love me some GingerDead!
December 8th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
i love me some robots!
December 8th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
thanks for the squirrel
she’s pretty and cracks nuts too
she has my child’s eyes
eminelf is FUNNY! perhaps she has a little rap routine in her repertoire?
December 8th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
the squirrel is probably going to hide your child’s eyes in the earth or up a tree. in the meantime, she can stuff her empty sockets with jingle bells. it’s a hot look this time of year.
December 9th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
seraphine’s child’s eyes
squirreled away for winter
come spring they will grow
lovely little shrubs
confectioners use their fruit
to make eye candy
December 9th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
what beautiful haiku justme! our 3 comments are forming quite beautiful strange tale. i’d love to see it animated.
December 9th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
i love your poem, justme. after all, everybody likes eye candy.
she has eye lashes
like flowers on little shrubs
face full of bees
calan: the use of bells for eyes was an inspired idea. i was going to comment on that last week, but i was hoping nobody noticed in case i wanted to (one day) try something like that myself. but maybe instead of eyes… well, i’ll give you a clue:
*she has to go tinkle*
December 9th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I have one, but it’s not picturesque. I’ll wait until someone else is glib – then I’ll make my entry
December 9th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
sera – peas?! lol
December 10th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
nervous pirouettes
bushy tails, acorn packed cheeks –
the nutcracker suite
December 19th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
I drop by each week to see what you’ve come up with and I’m never disappointed! Keep making me smile.
December 21st, 2010 at 1:19 am
thanks Tammy! i just checked out your site and really enjoyed your paintings