This week’s Small Fancy: Casting choices for the movie of my life.

Small Fancy is a little late this week, but here it is. Now that I’ve thought about it more, I should have maybe drawn me waiting for the bus after work, in the dark, in Vanier, at 15. That was the worst part of this job.

I have so many of these, they might go on for a while… or maybe it is too depressing re-living all the jobs from hell. We’ll see…

This week’s Small Fancy is “Birds of the Season”. Mine is dedicated to my father. I find his love and knowledge of birds infinitely inspiring.

Not totally unrelated… I’ve joined twitter. I always felt it a little overwhelming when I considered it before. I spend enough time at the computer, I didn’t want to be spending more. I really enjoy reading other people’s tweets and it’s fun, so I thought I’d give it a go. I’m still figuring it out and trying to get the hang of it. You can find me at @lorijoysmith.

Small Fancy is returning! Look, we even have a fancy new header… drawn by my partner in crime Mia.

We need your help though, we’re trying to make a bank of themes. The hardest part of doing the weekly comic for us is not the drawing of the comic, but the thinking up of a theme each week. If you have a theme you would like to see us each draw please leave it in the comments.

Thanks!

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This week at The Small Fancy we were inspired by the Burning House to make our own piles of things we would rescue from our houses were on fire. Once I knew that all the humans and the cat were all safe I would go back for:

• some favourite comics
• photo of me and my sister
• photo of my mother in law
• tiny paintings of my girls
• favourite pair of scissors given to me by my mother in law
• wedding photo
• daughter’s teeth
• doll Mia gave to me as a wedding present
• hard drive with all my photos on it
• bedspread made by my mother in law

This week at the Small Fancy the theme is “What always surprises me about Vancouver/Charlottetown”. Paul already pointed out to me an error in mine… there are women who sweep too. It’s true, I’ve see  her, but I forgot about her while doing this last night.

Also in last week’s SF I mentioned that you can’t get agave here, but someone emailed me and said we actually can. I’ve since seen it everywhere from Winners to Bulk Barn. Yay!

Here’s a little peek at the back of a fabric piece I’m working on for the upcoming “this town is small” collaborative  island poems show. I find myself photographing the backs of fabric pieces just as much as the fronts.

Want to see what’s in my purse?

I just finished this portrait for Tamara’s littlest. I love the name Poppy, Ila was almost a Poppy.

This week’s theme at Small Fancy is “City Life/Town Life…the Good”.  This time of year I always start wondering why in the world we live here , it was nice to think about some of the good things.

This week’s theme at Small Fancy is “something I’m looking forward to“….