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🧹🎨✨ Closing out spring cleaning, inks and paints with old . . . maps!? Mom drew these maps years and years ago, long before she met me. But since Mom drew these, maybe they can show me where the Secret Radicchio Hoard is! 🗺🖍🧐🐢
Uh oh, are noms disappearing off the edge of the map?!
Mom, why doesn’t the map key include a symbol for noms?
All this green must be delicious!
🧹🎨✨ More old art for spring cleaning, inks and paints! This old sketch has no inks or paints. Mom loves colors when it comes to decorating, clothes, and pretty much everything else, but ironically, Mom was better at black-and-white pencil sketches than watercolors! ✏️👟🧐🐢
🧹🎨✨ Spring cleaning, inks and paints continues: I found a bunch of Mom’s old art! Mom drew these two many, many years ago, when she was a little girl. These drawings are ancient! 🖼🎂🦌🧐🐢
Mom, why don’t my birthday parties look like this? 🥳🤨🐢
🧹🎨✨ I dug up one more set of Mom’s old paints for spring cleaning, the inks and paints edition! I was excited to boop these pretty paints, but Mom snatched them all away before I could inspect even a single one!? What do you mean I’m not allowed to get too close to any paints anymore?! 🌈🎨🧐🐢
🧹🎨✨ Spring cleaning, inks and paints continues: Did you know Mom took art lessons many, many years ago? Mom never really got the hang of watercolors, but she sure used deliciously colorful paints! 🎨🖌😋🐢
It’s spring cleaning time again, this time inks and paints! 🧹🎨✨
Calligraphy is on Mom’s much too long list of skills she would like to learn. Fifteen (!) years ago, she bought dip pens, nibs, and ink, but she still hasn’t had time to use them yet. Unsurprisingly, this ink is even more dried out than Mom’s old markers I inspected last year! 🖋🧐🐢
I found the rainbow! Dolphins in an undersea castle, bunnies in a ballet, pigs floating in a river, and even turtles with rainbow shells! Mom, how do I get a shell like that, too?
Talk about a throwback: Our spring cleaning unearthed the very first crochet “project” Mom ever made! Mom, these circles are pretty lopsided and unimpressive, to be completely honest. And they’re not even in nom-able colors!
Way in the back of Mom’s desk drawer, Mom and I discovered a brand new pretty pink Little Mermaid ruler! I love the sparkly glitter, and Mom loves the built-in protractors. We already have enough rulers, so we gifted this one to a little girl down the street. I wonder if she will figure out how to draw noms with it?
I found a magical sparkly book just the right size for me! Mom says the pages are all blank. Maybe I can use this as a dream journal to keep track of all the adventures I go on in my sleep! For example, last night, Mom caught me doing a whole one-leggie pushup workout in my sleep. Now that was a weird quarantine dream!
Spring cleaning, round 2: How does Mom have so much random stuff tucked away, like this deceptively delicious-looking treasure chest that is most definitely not a treasure?!?
The last pen in Mom’s giant stash is my favorite: Look at how delicious—er, I mean, delightful this pen buddy* is!
* Pen buddy was a present from friend Samwise many years ago! Sadly pen buddy is dried out now. :/
Mom says these stacking-point/push-point pencils were all the rage many years ago (years and years before I was even an embryo in an eggshell!). I don’t know, Mom, these don’t look that yummy to me...
What a strange mix of pens, a marker, and a sparkly eraser hiding in the back of Mom’s desk drawer. All of these are dried out, Mom, even the eraser! And this musical pen doesn’t sing anymore!
Look, Mom! I found a box of critter stamp markers in your marker stash! These markers are mostly dried out, too, but they still kind of work if you STOMP them hard enough!
It’s spring cleaning time! First up: Sorting through Mom’s marker stash. Mom, how do you have so many ancient dried out markers?!?
