Wednesday, March 26, 2008

My Happy Place


When I first started my job at the bakery, I was trained by my friend Jackie. She warned me of how maddening some customers can be and she advised me to envision a "happy place" that I could drift off to in my mind when I don't want to deal with people. At first, my happy place was a glowing cave full of sparkling stalactites and stalagmites in an array of pastel and neon colors. Of course there were albino bats sleeping upside-down on the ceiling as well.

Since then, I have thought up a new happy place that pleases me even more! It is less of a place and more of an idea. When I am faced with a situation I find frustrating; I space out a little and picture the place I am in with the addition of a few bunny rabbits that defy gravity. If I am at the bakery; I picture them floating around just over the heads of the customers. they sometimes gently bump into light fixtures and sort of move their paws in a swimming motion to maneuver around. If a customer is truly horrible; they will receive an air-raid of bunny turdlets. Ha!

My newest Gocco printed drawing was inspired by my happy place. I couldn't really figure out how to draw bunnies defying gravity so I gave them balloon assistance. I'll be putting these up for sale in my shop tomorrow!

P.S. Justin also delights in the floating bunny exercise. He even named his blog Anti-Gravity Bunny!

11 comments:

Angela said...

This is adorable! I love all your bunny drawings :)

tatsuko said...

Cuuute!!!

idyll hands said...

Precious! I totally want a bunny with a helium balloon attached to it now.

Nicole Huot said...

By far, this is the most adorable thing I've seen all day. Thanks for the smile!

Julianna said...

Adorable! and funny too:)

Jess littlebunny.etsy.com said...

i love this so much!! when i get stop being broke one of these prints will hang on my wall!

Anonymous said...

Truly, this post made me laugh out loud. Thanks for my first smile of the day!

Funky Finds said...

I love this! It would be very cute used as an embroidery pattern!

Anonymous said...

Sweet!

Liz Smith said...

I love this image and the story behind it! I have a happy place too, but I'm always afraid the nasty folk will populate my happy place if I think of it when they are around. I'm totally missing the point, aren't I?

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh those are too cute. Great idea too!