Somewhere among all the angst which is my life, I figured I’d share a little ray of sunshine….

My good friend Valerie bought me this maimed ceramic piggy bank when we were looking at secondhand furniture at a shop nearby. I fell in love with his cute little face and the fact that, without ears) he looked more like an aardvark than a pig.

Originally, I intended to sand off his ear ‘stumps’ to make him look more aardvark-like but opted to leave them in place… they kinda make him look surprised.

I kept him as he was for a long time, then one day, while I had the chalkpaint out for another project, I gave him a once over.

I love the result…. after all, everything looks better with a bit of paint!

And he’s just so darned cute!

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