On Dinosaurs and Holiday Schedules

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In regards to keeping up 2 pages a week when it is the end of the year and things such as Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas visiting friends and relatives, staking out Black Friday online-sales to avoid malls, Christmas, after-Christmas friends and relatives…..I am not currently at that speed. For the rest of 2010, I’m adjusting to an all-encompassing “Holiday Schedule”. Not because I don’t say “Merry Christmas” (this is a sensitive subject for many in the area I live), but because I’ve had trouble maintaining 2 pages a week starting right around Thanksgiving and it will still be like that around New Year’s Eve…..

In short, Monday-only updates until 2011.

Christmas Velociraptor likes to hang out with Charmander, but Psyduck isn't so keen on it.

Following up on the previous post about how I’m a sucker for dinosaurs: It’s Christmas, which is always the best time for dinosaurs! …Okay maybe not everybody, but dinosaurs had a tendency to be a the top of my list as a little kid. I still have an infamous Brachiosaurus that my mom begrudgingly allowed to arrive for me at Christmas when I was 4 or 5. She threw in some form of doll ‘out of spite’, but I’m fairly certain it was stomped on by the Brachiosaurus named Diney and the T-rex that accompanied him.

Diney made his way to college with me when I ran into him years later, and now hangs out in the living room. Last year, I suggested to James that we draw dinosaur-Christmas themed ornaments for our not-very-ornamented tree. Being freshly-married, we didn’t have many ornaments to start with, save for some various Pokemon phone-charms, and did not have the foresight to ask for some on our wedding registry. (It was June, so they probably would have been for sale SOMEwhere…)

Honestly, I'll never remember to call him an Apatosaurus, and Bronto Santa has a better ring to it. Also: Triceratops with giant candy cane!

Using the power of the mighty printer-friendly Shrinky-Dink paper (or some other brand of shrink-based paper, I forget), we sketched out dino ideas in a sketchpad, scanned the favorites, and swapped out who inked and colored which dinos digitally. After printing a couple per sheet, they were separated with scissors, given some pre-punched string-holes, and baked until they were ornament-tastic! After stringing some goldish cord in them,  the dino-Christmas awesomeness was tree-ready.

James and I are currently in the process of developing the 2010 Dinosaur Ornaments for the tree. Right now they are still floating in a sketchbook (see below for secret candid sketchbook snap-shot), but we should have another 5 or 6 to decorate with soon. Hopefully we can fit them high enough so our cats will not knock them everywhere, as they have been known to take Santa Stego for a few baps around the house.

Christmas Dinosaurs of the FUUUTURE

Fizzlebit Goes to Dinosaur World!

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Not actually a real dinosaur, Photosaurus hangs out by the Interstate until you notice him and stop for a visit.

Only one page this past week, as last weekend we took a small trip to visit a fabled land off the Interstate a few hours away, where DINOSAURS live. Namely, Dinosaur World.

Actually, dinosaurs apparently live in three different locations according to the Dinosaur World website. Someone very smart realized that they could take large chunks of land off the highway, build a very large eye-catching sign accompanied by a dinosaur, and ensnare small children and dinosaur-minded adults into a side trip to see life-sized dinosaurs hanging out in the woods.

I’ve personally been a sucker for dinosaurs since the age of 5, so I didn’t really need any sort of convincing. James simply had to say “Hey, you wanna go to Dinosaur World?”. Below is an abridged photo journal of some of the dinosaurs hiding in the woods.

The fellow at the entrance wasn't really hiding in the woods, just hanging out.

It's okay that Fizzlebit can't talk, since he probably couldn't say Huayangosaurus anyway.

There was a pretty good mix of herbivore and carnivores...

Carnivores always seem to have more fun though.

Lots of fields would pop up with dinosaurs peeping out of trees and bushes.

Dilophosaurus was insistent that he did not need a frill to be scary.

Yeeeeeah, T-rex!

Oh, hey, wait, T.rex!