Hi Reader!

The refrain-on-repeat in my house right now is "I'm sooooo excited for Christmas!". I wonder how many times I'll hear that between now and Christmas morning? 1,000? A million? Infinite?

I still remember that feeling so well from when I was a kid – the bouncy, tangible anticipation so huge I could barely stand it. Waking up in the middle of the night on Christmas to sneak into the living room to stare at the presents under the tree in awe. Removing one torturous ring each day from the paper chain we'd made to mark number of days left un the ever-so-slow passing of the days until we finally arrived at Christmas morning.

Sometimes I wish I still felt that same painful kind of excitement for things. I'm going to see Zach Bryan in concert next week, and I'm pretty excited about that. But it doesn't rival a 5 and 9 year old's anticipation of Christmas morning.

We've started doing some holiday things, like making Christmas drawings to turn into Christmas cards (I have to admit, I haven't sent out Christmas cards since I became a mom. I used to each and every year – hand-written ones to friends and family – and I just haven't found the steam to do it in the past 9 years. This might be my year, though...) We got out the lightbox that I made nearly 2 decades ago, to use for some tracing and also just to let the light glow through our drawings in such a pretty way, and C and G absolutely loved that. It's so amazing to watch my kids be so delighted by such simple things and to remember that I'm delighted by such simple things, too.

They have the whole week off from school next week, and we're not traveling for Thanksgiving, so we're gonna need to make some solid plans for things to do so we don't all go crazy. Ha.

One thing they'll love helping me do is ship orders! I'm having my annual Black Friday sale next week, so make sure you mark your calendar if holiday shopping is going to be part of your Thanksgiving festivities next week.

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​BLACK FRIDAY SALE SNEAK PEEK

The sale is going to have a few parts to it this year:

1. FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE! (While supplies last)
   ​All orders will come with a free set of 10 gift tags. Those are the tags pictured above – so cute, right?!
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2. BUY ONE GET ONE FREE PRINTS
   ​This is always one of my most popular types of sales! You'll be able to use the code BOGOPRINTSBF24 to buy one print, get one free. Buy two, get two. Etc. You'll even have some brand new prints to choose from in the shop! This code will work for both 8x10" and 11x14" prints.
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3. 15% OFF ALL ORDERS OVER $100
   ​This discount will be automatic – no code required. Yeehaw!

The sale will run Wednesday November 27th through Monday December 2nd!

FREE 5-DAY ART-MAKING CHALLENGE It's back, and perfectly timed in the middle of the holiday season, so you can give yourself a much-needed, therapeutic art-making break from the holiday chaos. We start December 9th! JOIN THE CHALLENGE

ANIMAL ART PRINTS Did you know that all my animal prints come with a little info card that details the animal's energetic qualities? Gift them and play oracle for yourself and the mystics and animal lovers in your life! FIND YOUR ANIMALS

NEXT ON MY READING LIST... I'm planning to take some serious down time in the second part of December, and my favorite place to be right now is in my warm, cozy bed, reading a book. I'm pretty excited about this one! GRAB A COPY

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OK, my friend. I'm off to a school conference with G's kindergarten teacher (the first one!), and then to pick up my babes and listen to the refrain-on-repeat some more. Ha.

I wish you all the good things as you make your way through the rest of this Tuesday, this week, and beyond.

Until next time!
xoxo

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