Where Art Thou?

Hello creative self. Where art thou? What happened? Well we all know that life got very busy with babies and while the art did continue, there was less time to devote to it, let alone blog about it. Some of the art made it to other blogs, but most of it is stored somewhere in a computer (most likely now defunct) or in a box in the attic or has been sent off into the world on an adventure. I will tie the loose ends of this blog together with a collection of Christmas cards I created over the years. I think I started illustrating my Christmas cards in 2008 when we were living in our cute little apartment in Canberra, overlooking beautiful parklands and the occasional kangaroo. We owned a spiffy little pale blue vespa that we named Enio. I painted a picture of Romain and me zipping along on Enio together through the ACT. I then somehow created Christmas cards from that painting. Can't remember how exactly. The original painting hangs in our kitchen in Ainay. There was never an electronic copy of this card.....But the tradition was started and I continued in 2009, the first year of our posting in Vanuatu. Not sure then what happened to 2010. I think it was Romain and me as ninjas after our trip to Japan. 2011 was also an original painting converted to cards. The painting is now sitting on the book shelf in our living room in Ainay. So only 2010 is missing and I'm astounded I was able to find copies of all the other years! Here's the vespa card from Christmas 2008 - where it all began...

2009

2011

2012

2013

2014 These are legit the flights Leo took before he had even turned 1!!!

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021