I Make These Watercolor Cards For Every Other Odd Occasion!

Semiaquatic Rodent Monthly often features stories that highlight the struggle of the modern beaver to acclimate to an ever-shifting climate. Just thirty years ago it was common for these river rats to nest in the dam for most of the day, focusing on menial tasks, and letting their hair grow wild. Now the enterprising beaver is out hitting the stream with a strut, a sense of purpose, and a close crop.

Let someone know you care down there.

In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water. Modern scientists agree that a frog that has had its brain removed will probably stay put, wherever it is.

The hot tub may be an especially dangerous place to play, but this allegorical frog is here to stay. Until he dies.

Young Welsh men used to spend days meticulously carving delicate wooden spoons so they could offer their crushes the most magnificent utensil possible. Now the modern art of spooning is a more physical sort --evolutionarily designed for maximum comfortability and feelings of mutual safety.

Give this card to the human that makes you feel treasured, buoyed, and secure.

Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which the cambium of two trees touch and then grow together. The human equivalency of this relationship is commonly referred to as “a relationship.”

Do you ever feel positively grafted to the trunk of your other half? Tell them with this card, googly-eyes included!