27/365 - Work-at-Home Mascots

Creatives have their eccentricities and I'm definitely not exempted from it. The work-at-home writer in me is a lonely character - I only have my laptop, books and work table as companions throughout a long churn of countless articles for this or that client.

That gives me, I think, an excuse to be odd once in a while.

I've got this set of home office mascots who, I'd like to imagine, are always cheering me on and chanting, "You can! You can! You can!" when my mind's fried and there are still stuff to write.

There's Dana, after her namesake, who gave her to me before leaving for the States; Dax, a tooth fairy; and Dollar, an honest-to-goodness piggy bank.

From L to R: Dana, Dax and Dollar...mascots all.

Dana was my first mascot, followed by Dollar, who was a gift to me two Christmases ago. Dax was the last to join my cheering gallery, handed to me by Li'l Prince.

Dax, the tooth fairy.

She's the Tooth Fairy from the Rise of the Guardians movie but since her name was just, well, Tooth, and she looks more like a "he" to me, I decided to give it a gender change and a new name. So he's now Dax, the male fairy heh. (Someone somewhere must be howling indignantly but, well, he's a gift to me so I reserve the right to name him and let him be anybody I like.)