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Jessy’s Christmas Photo…

Posted on December 30, 2016 by MobymomDecember 30, 2016

Every year, Jessy tries to get Evee to take a cute Christmas picture.

Heck, she tries to get ANYONE to take a cute picture and none of the animals want to cooperate.

Evee acts like you are killing her. She hates to dress up.

Toto kitty says, sure, I’ll try it… but then, hey, what is this little fluffy ball on this red thing?

Yeah, about the best we can get with a kitty.

Ratchet tries, but he isn’t very comfortable on a chair. And he won’t stay still on the ground.

So she brings out treats. Everyone loves treats.

Maybe we should just take a picture of Jessy wearing the Santa hat! It would probably be a lot easier…

Evee was not happy when she put the hat on her Floppy Puppy. Floppy Puppy is HER plaything… you are not allowed to touch him…

Just she finally managed to get a nice shot of one of the Windhaven critters… Maybe she should try the goats next year?

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Christmas Treat Making…

Posted on December 30, 2016 by MobymomDecember 30, 2016

We made some lovely cookie platters for some friends and family for the holidays! It’s just something we like to do and it’s fun. One of the new recipes that we tried were these lovely little Ritz cracker cookies!

Here is the cool recipe that we used. SOOOOOooo Easy! (Just click the picture and you can learn how to make them. Just remember to come back!)

Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Ritz Sandwiches

We used milk chocolate and some folks use white chocolate… I think just about anything tastes good with chocolate, don’t you think?

On no! I ran out of chocolate! And I had two peanut butter sandwiches left. Hmmm…. I wonder what we should do with them? Maybe throw out? Hmmm….

Haha! I think the animal supervisors could do a little sampling… two dogs, two cookies!

Merry Christmas!!!!!

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Painting up a Little Gift…

Posted on December 30, 2016 by MobymomDecember 30, 2016

I used to do a lot of watercolor painting, many many years ago and lately, I’ve been wanting to get back into it. Just something that I’d like to do more of.

And then I saw my friend Jess, post this super cute picture of her daughter on Santa’s lap, many years ago! Her daughter is now a beautiful young lady in college!

So I thought, what a fun little thing to give a try… So, it took me a little while, but the steps are basic… first up, I sketched out the picture on some tracing paper…

Then, I transferred it to some lovely cold press watercolor paper. I just rubbed a little pencil on the back and retraced it on to the paper. Once I had the basic lines, I went back and sketched in a little strong lines to give me something to go by.

The first bit of painting was SO hard! I haven’t painted in years! So I just took a big breath and said, okay, I have like 10 sheets of paper, so if I mess up, I mess up! Sometimes you just have to take that leap of faith!

I was careful to begin with light areas… skin tones, hands, that sort of thing. It’s super easy to muddy and darken up a water color painting, but almost impossible to lighten it up after it’s all dark! I thought it was coming along fairly nicely!

A closeup detail as I began to add more and more to the painting. I think the picture was just so cute, Erin is telling Santa her whole big list! She was ready and prepared, it looks like.

All done!

She loved it and her daughter did too! That was nice. I hope it is a nice reminder of her little daughter back in the old days! I’m glad how it turned out…

Now, I need to keep at it! I’m sure it’s going to be a resolution for 2017! More watercolor painting!!!

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