My Christmas Story
Adobe festive challenge
Encouraged by the lovely community over in the Adobe live streams, I have created an illustration to represent my Christmas Story.
When I was little I was always over excited by Christmas. It was always, and still is, a celebration of lights for me. We had a white tree, that looked like it was a load of bottle brushes stuck together, and multi-coloured lights that even though they didn't flash like the ones today, they still seemed to twinkle. Most years I couldn't sleep. When I was quite small one year, I remember my mum picking me up to show me the lights on our tree. I was mesmerised. I was telling my own kids about this and so this illustration came about.
![mother holding child to look at lights on a white Christmas tree](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/5a56e8d3-1ce9-45d6-8456-6d45f44bb0cd/60800b56-066c-45bd-8fc6-b14b7cd6fc26_rw_1920.jpeg?h=67a02dc56165bcf65e7840f5b62d4342)
I don't like the blue lights that are around today - they seem to hurt my eyes. But the ones we had on our tree didn't seem to bother me as much!