Today’s doodle for bears is dedicated to Bob Ranche, in thanks for donating to my Birthday Fundraiser for @animalsasia.

The fundraiser is over (we raised $1149!), but I promised a doodle for everyone who donated. I’m drawing them on postcards so I can send the originals through the mail.
I love this project so much—it’s the birthday gift that keeps on giving!
Thank you, Bob, for Help my save moon bears, and for giving me an opportunity to make meaningful art. ?

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Today’s doodle, which I doodled live on this morning’s Doodlecam, is dedicated to @bonnienoehr, in gratitude for donating to my Birthday Fundraiser for @animalsasia.

We raised $1149, and everyone who donated gets their very own doodle, so watch your mailbox, Bonnie! ?

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Today’s doodle-for-bears Birthday Fundraiser donor dedication doodle goes to Martha Boccalini!
Notice the doodlebot peeking out behind the trunk of the doodletree. ?

Thank you, Martha!

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Yesterday’s doodle, made just before bed—actually *in* bed, but at night, instead of my usual morning, because I was up and at ‘em early, leading a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop yesterday morning!
This one is dedicated to Helen Lunn, one of my wonderful donors to my Birthday Fundraiser for @animalsasia.
The fundraiser is over—we raised $1149!—but I will continue to dedicate doodles to donors until every single person who donated gets one. ?

I’m doodling on postcards, so I can send each donor the original through the mail!

It makes me so happy, and extends my birthday celebration in such a lovely way, too. I get to make art and share it, and celebrate the difference that each person made with their donation.

It’s a creative gratitude love fest. ?❤️ Thank you, Helen, for helping save moon bears, and helping make my birthday special! ?

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Today’s doodle is dedicated to @reflectinphotos for donating to my Birthday Fundraiser. ? It will be wending its way to you soon, so watch your snail mail box, Rebekah!
It’s fun, and also scary, to make art that I know is bound for a specific person! I have no idea if they’ll like it!
As creators, we have to let that go if we we are ever going to create anything, because fear of not pleasing someone else is paralyzing. It is imperative to create for YOU, planted firmly in the Creative Sandbox, following the Creative Sandbox Guideposts (read: be in the mindspace of a four-year-old, where it’s all about following curiosity, exploration, and play, and not about trying to impress anyone). Will anyone else like it? Maybe, maybe not.

Will the *recipients* of my doodles like them? Maybe, maybe not.

That is not my concern. Worrying about that is not my job.

My one and only job, as the creator, is to CREATE, not to judge whether what I create is good enough.

After I’ve created, THEN I can assess what I’ve created. But not while I’ve got my creator hat on.
And doodles? They’re just pieces of paper, not carved in marble, for goodness sake! (Besides, if the recipients don’t like them, they can toss them in the recycle bin! ?) Lower the stakes, folks! It makes life a lot less stressful.
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