Can you believe my better half drew this?

This past holiday season was such a whirlwind of travel that my wife and I did not exchange gifts until one full month after Christmas (and my sons and I finally exchanged gifts this past Saturday).

Each year my bride blesses me with a drawing and (as you can see from the included picture) she really out did herself this time.

Jennie spent just under 30 hours cuddled up with a pencil as she meticulously crafted this year's masterpiece (I'll be happy to send you pictures of her previous work if you care to ask). That would amount to a $2250.00 present if an in house agency designer was commissioned to produce the same work.

WARNING: Shameless (but ever so helpful) Specialty Box self promotion starts NOW:

Did you know that Specialty Box offers free packaging design services? It's a program that we call, "You Dream It, We Design it."

We put our graphic artist to work for you at no charge. Our time. Our dime. No obligation. Plenty of imagination. Just visit our homepage and you'll see that this kind of work keeps us excited about packaging.

And if you need the services of a designer for a non packaging project (website or t-shirt design, logo development, something for your kid's birthday party) then Specialty Box will put our graphic artist to work for you at a below industry rate.

From now until April 1, 2015 we are offering all new non-packaging design clients a way below market introductory rate of $39.00 per hour.

Now, before I go away for another month, please let me introduce to you the graphic artist behind all this. Her name is Jessica Jones and she has partnered with Specialty Box for over eight years. However, just this month she has come on full time and we are thrilled to have her.

Please say hello to Jessica by sending a quick note to [email protected] (she chose this email address herself which should tell you that she fits in perfectly around here) and, of course, let her know if she can get busy for you.

Dream away!