Top 20 Best Places to be a Kid on Christmas

 

Art by Brittney Lee

Top 20 Best Places to be a Kid on Christmas by Richard Florida

This based on four key criteria: (1) the number of children under age 14 (from the American Community Survey) (2) toy and game stores per capita, (3) candy stores per capita (both from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns), and for that white Christmas, (4) the probability of having snow on Christmas Day (from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center).

1. Logan, Utah

2. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

(I love the Coeur d'Alene Resort!) 

3. Fairbanks, Alaska

4. Billings, Montana

5. Ogden-Clearfield, Utah

6. Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan

7. St. George, Utah

8. Pocatello, Idaho

9. Denver, Aurora-Broomfield, Colorado

10. Anchorage, Alaska

11. Colorado Springs, Colorado

12. Rapid City, South Dakota

13. Salt Lake City, Utah

14. Appleton, Wisconsin

(My Granny lives here!)

15. Flagstaff, Arizona

16. Reno-Sparks, Nevada

17. Provo-Orem, Utah

18. Bend, Oregon

19. Joplin, Montana

20. Spokane, Washington

(My sissy goes to school here!)

 Merry (almost) Christmas from us and the kitties! 

P.S. You can still buy Brittney Lee's holiday cards on Etsy! I love the adorable kitten around the tree! 

Are you excited for HARRY POTTER and the Deathly Hallows?

There's a midnight show tonight and it opens every where tomorrow! AHHHHHHHHHH! I'm so so so excited about this movie! 

I adore Brittney Lee's artwork, and now I heart her Harry Potter artwork even more. I'm pretty sure this scene is from the Deathly Hallows book too!!!!


And just for fun, check out this cute clip of the Harry Potter cast trying on American accents!

Daniel Radcliffe cracks up as he tries to read words in his best American accent in this funny new video with MTV’s Josh Horowitz.

Read more:  http://justjared.buzznet.com/page/2/#ixzz15hCiXXKx

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What I'm loving on Wednesday!

How sweet is Lagoon Love by Brittney Lee? This is her annual holiday card too.  I adore all her cat drawings. This reminds me I need to pick out Christmas cards! Have you started thinking about Christmas shopping and sending holiday cards yet?

Love Brittney Lee's lions!!

Isn't she amazing? Brittney Lee makes the most amazing art! Doesn't Simba's face make you smile?

Hope you had a happy Monday!

Brittney Lee and PecknPaw artists!

Do you like Disney art? Were you the kind of kid who watched Disney movies over and over again, like me? Did you ever secretly wish you could draw like a Disney artist? 

I've introduced Brittney Lee to you all before and she's just phenomenal! (See previous blog posts featuring Brittney Lee here, here, here, and most recently here.) Aren't you just a teasy bit jealous (or in awe) when you read how she got her dream job at Disney? Brittney Lee and a group of 19 other amazing artists from Disney's visual development team made an independent art book that comes out August 7th!

Check out PecknPaw and the Black Mirror,  if you're interested, I found some example pages and links to the artist websites!

PECKNPAW LINKS

• Bill Schwab
• Brittney Lee
• Claire Keane (This was found on Claire on a Cloud!)
• James Finch
• Jeff Turley
• Jin Kim
• Justin Cram
• Lorealy Bove
• Scott Watanabe
• Shiyoon Kim
• Victoria Ying

All the featured artwork was found on the PecknPaw blog and Gallery Nucleus. If you'd like to order a copy of this neat art book, you can pre-order it on Gallery Nucleus! 

ENJOY!

More fun Brittney Lee art!

Brittney Lee's artwork is so fun! Brittney just posted new artwork on her website. Check out her celebratory dinosaurs. There are no velociraptors allowed!

Leaving on a jet plane...for Maui!!

[Art by Brittney Lee]

This will be me very sooon!!! I'm leaving for Maui today and won't be back until January 5th! Aloha!

Brittney Lee Art!

[Art by Brittney Lee]

I recently discovered Brittney Lee's art on Etsy and I'm totally enamored with her style! She's a very talented designer and animator who "loves drawing and chocolate". To my untrained eye, her artwork reminds me of Disney movies like Hercules and Tarzen, but even more fun and sweet! I just love this Birdie Ballerina! She reminds me of Sleeping Beauty in the forest with the birds!

Yesterday I posted a print also by Brittney Lee of two dancers titled, "Out on the Town", in honor of my parents anniversary. I hope Brittney doesn't mind if I post more of her artwork, I'm totally in love with all of her prints, bookmarks, sketches and paper sculpts.

Check out Brittney Lee's Etsy site and her blog for more amazing artwork!

[Art by Brittney Lee]