Take a Moment Here

Folk Style Fairytale Art - Trying New Things by Vicky Winkler There's a story a lot of us carry without even realizing it. A quiet, firm little sentence we decided was true somewhere along the way. Mine was: I can't draw. I said it so many times it stopped feeling like an opinion and started feeling like fact. As a child, that story might have been a kind of protection, a way to step back before anyone else could judge me or laugh. But somewhere between childhood and now, I f

If I’m being honest, I didn’t feel like going at all. It felt like one more thing on the calendar, one more place to be. But I went for the kids, and somewhere along the way, it became something else. It ended up being a really nice time, not in a big, life changing way, but in a quiet, unexpected way that stayed with me. The nostalgia hit almost immediately. The sound of Mario jumping on Yoshi, the visuals that reminded me of playing hours of Mario 3, that specific kind of f