A Gift

I've always loved receiving gifts! On Christmas, Birthday's, or just because. Who doesn't like getting gifts? Some people actually don't! Well, they don't know how to react to it and that's usually what the giver looks for. See the smile on their face and the joy they hope it brings them. I was a victim of this recently, haha! Here's the story.

My boyfriend's birthday was a few days ago and I really wanted to do something special for him, only later to find out that he hates his birthday. Just my luck right? I do my best. I listen to all I can and remember what I try. He's kind of a video game nut, which I adore! I love seeing guys get in their zone! It is a bit tough to get them out of that zone though ;) So I spent three days creating a card for him, I love art so it wasn't a burden any which way. I wrote it out first and incorporated all the video game names I could. It ended up pretty cheesy sounding but here's some of my favorite ones I drew...

 Forgive me for having taken these photos sideways..

Pretty proud of this one. (Actually got to see him play this game!)

This one took forever! Some of it had to be finger painted because I lost most of brushes or accidentally destroyed...

 The original name on this game was "Drake" but I changed it to his name, the original background detail was also a little overwhelming so I improvised.

But this is the gist of what I did for him, his mom cried when she read the card! So sweet :)

A few weeks before him and I had gone to the comic store and he came across this book of Marvel comic book characters and all their background stories, I read it, it was pretty cool. He wanted it so bad but ended up getting something else, I went back the next day and got it for him. I had also made us bracelets...I know it's really girly but something in me said he'd appreciate it. They're portal bracelets, from the video game. And one more thing I picked up on the way there. Pralines pecan and creme ice cream and a bottle of water because it's too sweet for him so he needs water with it. That little thing came up when I was driving him home one night. I just wanted him to see how much I cared and listened. You know what? He didn't know how to feel! haha...oh goodness. I was okay with that, he said no one's done anything like that for him...he said once how his brother always seems to get the silver spoon. And well I wanted to give a silver spoon to him, maybe it wasn't silver maybe like bronze, haha with all my homemade stuff.

In the end, his emotions, I know I'll have to wait for, and so far, everything is worth waiting for.

Happy Birthday, baby! <3 Thanks for being silly with me!!