Happy Thanksgiving, 2016! + Holiday Project 2016!

Hey all. Blue here. Just wanted to make a short journal and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving in the U.S. I currently have guests over as we're having a Thanksgiving party hosted in my home again this year once more. We sure got lots of food put up this year! And we're currently eating our meals, before we get ready for desert in a little while from now. Eariler this morning, I saw Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and it was their 90th annual celebration. It was definitely something special to watch!

A holiday project for 2016 is in the working! This year's theme will be the Holiday Bells theme! I got half-way done and I am expected to have 300 characters. My biggest one yet. I got over 152 characters filled in and need to get almost half left. But rest asure that I have college homework in the way due so I need to get that done as well. For those that want to be in, I asked. But for those that don't make it in this year, don't worry. Because I will do a mini project to add as addition to include those that were not in the big main piece. I will include a separate project to go with another 12 characters. I asked many people around if they wanted to be in the project. And for those that aren't aware, then you may be in for a happy holiday surprise!

Some may be totally new to this. What is a holiday project? A holiday project is basically like a really big art project set up as a collage, featuring a large cast of characters from many friends as honor and appreciation. Lots of time and effort is put together and time is a thing that you will never get back, so I have to use it in the best way possible. My heart and hard-working skills are utilized to bring up these special pieces. This is my sixth annual holiday project. That's right, I am on Project 6 now. Throughout 2011 to 2015, countless amounts of people have loved what I put out there and with last year's project, probably being my most successful one yet. I am always willing to be a good friend and greeted with many loving holiday wishes. As what happened with last year, this year isn't too much of a secret Santa gift to many either, because I told so many prior and during the production. In fact, I've been working on this year's project as early as October 5th due to how many characters I gotta fill in. 2014's project was the most problematic because a few didn't like how I added them without permission (despite being a gift of joy) and some even hated how I drew their characters in my style and forbid me to draw theirs, which pissed me off. I got a crap ton of hate for that and some even blocked me. One even threatened that he was going to report the entire project for art theft despite that I didn't steal or trace.

While counting my character in, The first project in 2011 had 78 characters. The second project of 2012 was sorta the time where it got declined and only 58 characters were featured. The third project in 2013 was where it majestically got boosted by a long shot and 124 characters were included that year. The fourth project of 2014 went even higher and had 170 characters (168 was the original planned number). 2015 which features the fifth project has had the biggest number and that was a spanking amount of 206 characters (207 for a separate piece.) With each new year when new friends and supporters come, my roster seems to get bigger and bigger and I would have to plan more early and early to add more characters. Thank goodness I started this year's project in October. Because this year just might break last year's project as it's bound to have 300 characters! That's right! 300! You thought me doing the 2015 project was hard? Well, that's nothing compared to this one! 2016 was a big year where a ton of more friends came and more supporters built up.

Now, please keep in mind that I can't fit all my friends in the project due to time restraints. Also, please DO NOT re-upload the holiday art on your profile. The reason is because there's going to be a lot of people getting this art piece, and I do not wanna see the same thing being uploaded repeatedly. With last year, I think a few people re-uploaded parts of it on their profile, but this year, I don't think I should let that happen this time around. You can save the holiday project as a gift, but just don't go around re-uploading it, because if some people saw the same thing being uploaded on the front page, then there would be questions asked as in: "What the heck is going on here?!" For anyone that doesn't see their character anywhere, please do not feel bad about it. Just because you are not featured, that doesn't mean that I am not in favor of having you in interest.

I will provide an update in the future so that you will all get a bigger depth into what I'm really doing. I am almost done with my fifth college semester so hopefully, I can get the remaining of the project finished. If I was to do between 5-10 characters a day until the end, I can just about get this project finished before December 25th.

See you all later!

- Blue