For those of you travelling this week, I wish you a safe trip to your destinations. For those of you staying at your same locations, please enjoy. I will be in NYC (you know, couldn’t afford that $800-$1000 flight back to the U. S. Virgin Islands – Ahh, the burdens of being from a tropical island). I’m writing this because I may not have the chance before Thursday so, “Happy Thanksgiving,” & “Happy Turkey Day.”
I will be staying in Brooklyn this week but heading to the Bronx to help my aunt cook. I’m actually happy about staying here because I can catch up on things like: Reading books that I have avoided from my bookcase (considering that I ordered some more this week), actually living in my apartment since it only gets to see me when I sleep, updating my portfolio (I know most of you are dying to see what new things I have been working on) & possibly sewing (yes I do that also). I’m always doing something random on thanksgiving. One most notable was the time when I actually did most of the cooking:
That was a 19lb turkey
Casserole, Mashed Potatoes & VI stuffing.
The table
I’m making the cranberry sauce again this year.
This was the apple pie 🙂
This Thanksgiving: I’m thankful for life, thankful for good health, thankful for strength to go distances, thankful for having a job (a great deal of others have been affected by the recession but I’m thankful that things are getting better), thankful for really good friends that I have been noticing lately, thankful for my family (I lost a brother last year – RIP Gilbert ~I miss you everyday~ – but have gained a baby sister and a niece in the process), thankful for having someone in my life, thankful for good food, thankful for shelter (I love my apartment and it’s all mine!), thankful for having the chance to go to Adobe MAX conference this year, thankful for that trip to Mexico that has me longing to go to other exotic destinations, thankful for growth (I did a lot of growing up this year), thankful for beauty & art, thankful for knowledge, thankful for simplicity, thankful for being in NYC (I’ve always wanted to be here), thankful for technology and thankful for being able to reach goals that I had been longing for all year.
What are you thankful for?
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Some things:
An illustration that I was working on, I did this in Alias sketchbook pro.
Closeup
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I did this one with the brushes app for the iPhone/iPod (right) and I used sketchbook pro to touch up(left).
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I will share what I can in the next post and I’m dying to share some photography :-). Happy Thanksgiving!
