...as a toad.

I saw Spotty peering into his water dish the other day and thought it was adorable, so I grabbed the camera and took a few pictures. To my delight, the flash gave Spotty a reflection, and I just love the outcome of this one. XD Don't pine away for yourself, Spotty~ Learn from your past life mistakes. D:

Edit: Here is a memorial photo for my dear Narcissus!Spotty: [Spotty's House]

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This is my absolute favourite picture I ever got of my first frog. His name was Cloud, and he was a pyxicephalus adsperus, more commonly known as a dwarf African bullfrog or pixie frog.

He died Monday, June 7th, of a bacterial infection. I had him for two years--it would have been three come this September--and I can honestly say he was one of the best pets I have ever had. He was the sweetest little thing. He always made me smile with his own huge grin, and he still does. I miss him so much.

So, here's to you, my little Prince of Smiles. I love you!

Edit: I now have what I would like to call Cloud's little brother, another pixie frog by the name of Vincent: [Princely Smile]

Don't you see a family resemblance?

I'm so mean to my pets. >_>;

Okay, come on. It's CUTE, right?! XD The staff at PetSmart thought so! They thought Vincent was cute enough to give him first place in the Howl-O-Ween pet costume contest they had today~

Crown made out of black felt with the ends sewed together and decorated with little stick-on gems with orange ribbon strung through it. The hands fixing his hat would be my mom's.

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I love this picture. XD So cute. I had Misaki on my desk and she climbed over my mouse, and I randomly put my little duck in front of her and it looked like they were kissing, so I took a picture.

I wonder if my duck's gonna turn into a prince now?

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I forgot about these pictures. (And then forgot to upload the rest after [Windows to the Past])

My mom and I went to the Glanmore Historical Museum, which is a really old building in our town that was lived in once upon a time. It was declared a national historic site in 1971, and it's really cool. [Glanmore Page]

Gah, that light is painfully distracting, isn't it? It was such a bright day. x_X I like this picture despite that, though. This is part of the master bedroom of the house, and probably the last picture I'll upload, since I didn't get very many artsy shots. All of them are either too dark, too bright, too blurry, or not good photos. D:

October '06

Here's my new little baby, just brought home yesterday. She's an ornate horned frog aka Pacman frog aka ceratophrys ornata~ She's such a little cutie. Her name is Hanabi, which is Japanese for "fireworks" (and thus the Japanese title I put on the picture, which is "okaerinasai, Hanabi"). I named her so because she's colourful, like fireworks. :3

I hope she's with me a long time. X3 She's so beautiful~

My ickle Hanabi~ Doesn't he just look like he thinks he's all that in this picture? XD The way his legs are and everything, just makes me think he's chillin' out and being all cool. XD

Well, they were up to their usual silliness this morning only this time they happened to be facing the front of the tank.

This was taken with no artistic intentions whatsoever, but... who doesn't wanna see a frog's mouth?! XD And this was hard to get.

Whenever I rub Hanabi's lip with my finger he opens his mouth a bit. I have no idea why he does it, but I find it hilarious. See his buck teeth/tooth-thing? He bit me the other day with that thing and it hurts! ^_^;; And his mouth is sticky. He didn't draw blood, but he did peel some skin off of my finger and I had to put a bandaid on it 'cause I'm a wimp.

I'll prob'ly scrap this at some point.

Since when do I like superheroes? Let alone draw them? 9_9;

It's my brother's birthday today, and since I had no idea what else to draw him I picked his favourite female out of X-Men (I'm obsessed with them now >_>; ), which happens to be Rogue, and used the X-Men Evolution version of her because that rendition is much easier to anime-ify than the comic book ones would be (for me, at least), and I like the Evolution versions of most of the characters the best (Nightcrawler! :3). I like how it came out for the most part, but I screwed up the green chest part of her outfit; because they colour the underside of it so darkly I thought the green only extended halfway down her chest, but it actually encompasses all of it and around to her back. Ah, well... And it's a little difficult to see, but I wrote names on the gifts saying who they were from. XD One is "Logan" (Wolverine), one is "Jean & Scott" (Marvel Girl and Cyclops—c'mon, the girl always gets the gift and attaches her guy's name to make him look good 9_9), and the other is "Ororo" (Storm).

I was supposed to upload the coloured version of my 2008 to-do list next, but I finished this sooner. :/

0.5 mechanical pencil, 0.1/0.3/0.5 Sakura Microns, Prismacolor Scholar pencil crayons

Rogue, X-Men © Marvel
Art © ~Toadychan