Father's Day Down Under

This past week my family and I celebrated Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim ("Days of Awe"), the most solemn days of the Jewish year, which conclude with the holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. I would like to wish all my Jewish customers and friends a very happy and peaceful holiday period, and, in the words of the traditional blessing, "May You Be Written and Sealed for a Good Year."

Quite some months ago a very organised customer asked me to create a card for her Dad for Father's Day in Australia. Dad is a pharmacist, his daughter told me, he loves doughnuts, and he is obsessed (her words) with family history and their family tree. My customer sent me a few photos of Dad and also of the box of 6 doughnuts he always buys. She was very particular that the doughnuts I crafted were iced in brown, pink and yellow. I followed her instructions carefully...

I showed Dad wearing a white dress shirt and added his rectangular shaped glasses. Together we decided to show him holding a mortar and pestle, to illustrate his profession, and to add his initials to the mortar. I also included some little bottles of pills. He has a yellow iced doughnut in his other hand. In addition, I added a small family tree with the family's surname on it, to show Dad's interest in genealogy.
I think I got everything on there!

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