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This is how I jam my soul into the holiday season






(Painted after someone's pets)






Apparently I am on a fox kick


it is a tiny turtle in a tiny stocking


then I made dragons on bells


and dragons in bottle caps



This was for a gift exchange; the lizard on the gargoyle is called a gargoyle gecko


You've heard the famous story about that nasty witch who had a cabin made of gingerbread, for the sole purpose of trapping small children. But I'll bet you've never heard the story about her wizardly counterpart.

This wizard had the misfortune to have a study which backed up against an orphanage. Many difficult spells were thrown out of whack when the wizard jumped at the sound of a ball being bounced outside. Many a tedious potion was stirred in just the wrong way because of loud shrieks of laughter.

Disgruntled, the wizard decided to send a dragon in to clean out the orphanage. And what better way to get children to come willingly (and hopefully quietly) to the dragon's maw than to make it look like candy and sweets?

Gingerbread, icing, gumdrops, cocoa, licorice... the wizard added all of these to a potion that he sprinkled liberally upon a lizard he had caught for this purpose.

Things might have turned out just a little differently had the wizard not stumbled over a few words of the incantation due to some very loud hide-and-go-seek being played outside.

As it went, instead of turning the lizard into a malicious destroying machine, a dragon did indeed appear after a puff of smoke... but as its candy components seeped into its being, it became much too sweet to kill anything but the biggest frowns.

To the wizard's chagrin, a dragon - made of sweets and a tendency to hug - released into the midst of small children merely increased the squeals of delight.

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