. has _something_ but isn't sure it's what you're looking for. It is for you though!

what it is.

your gift for you, naturally! Even if you were scary about him making it, he still did!

...hadn't actually expected you to keep, let along remember such a rash promise, but he is glad that you went to all the trouble

nonetheless~ What did you get him?

Of course he remembered it! Everyone deserves a present for Christmas - or their version of it anyway. He... Well it's... a painting. And a_

frame. And he made them both himself. But he can't tell you more than that. Would you like to see it?

actually quite fond of art, and remembers that you are quite apt at it, no? So yes, he would like to see it; after all, you went to all that

trouble hand-making both!

didn't completely hand-make the frame to be honest - he bought the wood already put together, but he did all the plaster work around it, _

so that might count? And yes, he likes to think he is rather good at it, he's dedicated hundreds of years to learning the ways of paint, _

clay, and other such materials, after all. If you give him one second he'll fetch it for you!

(poke)

(oh woah; slaps Plurk)
still thinks that it's quite an amount of effort; it's the thought that counts, da? And indeed you have; he has

seen much of your work when he visited France some time ago.