Better than I imagined!

Last year shortly before Christmas, we were standing in the check-out line at Sam's Club when I saw this empty white box. It was at that moment that this image popped in my head where Son could have a scene for his 'people' to play in, especially with his great imagination. So I picked it up & figured I'd give it a go. I penciled the scene in but couldn't decide whether to color or paint it. A few weeks ago, I finally outlined it with permanent marker & started to paint.

Now one of my various hobbies of the past are painting ceramics. I've never really painted a scene from scratch so I had no clue how this would turn out, even after it was outlined with marker. I have watched a television show or two on painting techniques (while I was bored doing laundry a few years back) & I guess some of it stuck with me. For two nights I painted & as it progressed I was in shock of how it was turning out. I never imagined it would look as realistic as it did!

Now I am so excited to give this to Son for Christmas (which will go along perfect with the Wizard of Oz characters I picked up from McDonald's). I absolutely love how well it turned out. So much so that I already picked up another plain white box to make another scene for him sometime in the future.