breakfast and sketches

It's been SO COLD here lately! Especially in the mornings. We are silly beans and don't turn on our heat, usually. This is because, for one, the people below us tend to have their heat on when we don't and it rises up and warms us without us even touching the thermostat! (I know... that's kinda like stealing cable, right?) Well, it's also because if we don't NEED to turn on the heat, then we just DON'T for another reason, which is mostly because of not having a ton of money for things like trivial heating bills. Trivial. (Joking. Not really trivial. Just not always necessary!) Plus, D let us in on the BIG SECRET of the apartment complex, and that big secret is.... shhhhh.... that all the fireplaces are connected to the same gas line which is included in the home-owner's fees and do NOT affect the monthly heating bill. AMAZING! So we have our fireplace on like, ALL the time now. (And yesterday I caught Mo laying in front of the fireplace, but he'd deny it if you asked him that directly.)

I swear I looked up right as I finished typing this and caught him there again. He almost darted away, but I managed to get this (not very good) picture of him with my web cam. Talk about perfect timing!!!

Anyhoo...

Lately I've been drawing a lot of things that don't amount to much more than practice. This seems to happen quite a bit, which explains the heaps of old sketchbooks I have around, shoved into nooks and crannies. But I don't always ink my sketches. I decided to find recent un-used sketches that I have inked and take a little collage of them for you to see. I am particularly fond of the zebra.












Also, another odd thing I have been doing recently is taking pictures of my breakfast with the piggy bank that sits on our coffee table. "Pig" (as we so fondly call him) is just so colorful and fun, and his color palette cheers me up every morning. Plus, he's a pig! So it only seems appropriate to take pictures of food with him.

Here are the two I've taken so far, and I may try to keep doing this if I remember to.

Oatmeal + Hot Chocolate = FULLLLLLL!

and...

Happy Pig with Waffle

and...

Happy MO with waffle!!!

(Because I caught Mo sniffing at it, and it made me laugh.)

The waffle was too rich for me, so M ate the other half. But the reason I took the picture in the first place was because it was just... pretty. 

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Well, that's it for this morning. Hope you have a great day and be sure to stop into the store to see the new stuff put in just yesterday evening!