I love Christmas. I hope everyone here had a very merry one

My mom actually managed to surprise me for once, with lots of great drawing supplies (including a set of the ENTIRE line of Polychromos colored pencils...and really cool Derwent metallic pencils. Derwent is my favorite company for graphite and charcoal work, but their colored things are nice too) and did a (quick, 45 minute) sketch of a bird in graphite, tinted with the metallics and the colored pencils, which I am VERY happy with and I think I will do more in that style

I also got a new little trinket, it's a bracelet with a piece of ancient Roman glass (those who know about ancient glass probably know about the shinyness that gets on it. Well one company decided to make jewelery out of it. I may post a picture of it in my gallery, along with a few other things before too long). I love my new little piece of glass!

I also got an archery target which I desperately needed, the decrepit haybales were killing my arrows

You know what makes me most happy? Everyone loved my gifts. I made them myself (all but one, but that one I sort of made as well) and I'm really glad that my time spent was well spent. With the exception of the one, I had at least an hour of time in each gift, and I love to see the look on everyone's face when they open it. The one I had the most time in was the forged feather, because of the steps involved in making it, and the fact that I have less natural talent and it takes more time for to do ironwork than it would take many people who were good at it.