Cute Panda Ice Skating Christmas Shirt Just Waiting For Christmas

The panda is mid-glide, one skate lifted behind him and a lumpy sack of gifts slung over his shoulder as if he has been carrying it since November. His mittens are a little too big. His scarf trails out behind him in the cold air. He is in no hurry, because the day he is waiting for is already on its way.

A Cute Panda Ice Skating Christmas Shirt With a Sack Full of Gifts

Our Just Waiting For Christmas design sets the phrase in two voices: a light, rounded hand for the opening words, arching over the scene, and a long looping script for the last word that sweeps beneath the pond like the line a skate leaves in fresh ice. Around the panda, frosted pine trees crowd the edge of the rink, and small snowflakes drift through the quiet. It looks like the hour before dark on a winter afternoon, when the lights come on and everyone slows down.

This cute panda ice skating Christmas shirt belongs to the person who counts down December on a paper calendar. Maybe that is a daughter who has been talking about Santa since September, or a grandmother who starts wrapping in October and hides everything in the hall closet. Parents shopping for a child who asks how many sleeps are left will recognize the mood in a second. It also fits a family pajama morning or a cookie swap, where one person in a panda shirt tends to set the tone for the whole kitchen.

We drew the panda round and soft, with a gentle smile and a sack that looks heavy enough to matter. His mittens run a little large and his scarf runs a little long, the way a winter coat does when it was bought to grow into. The snow on the pine trees sits in small drifts, and the pond curves around him as if it were cut for one skater. Wearing it feels a bit like joining him out there, scarf up, with nowhere else to be.

Where Does a Skating Panda With a Gift Sack Fit Into the Holiday Season?

The panda fits the whole stretch from the first tree-trimming weekend to Christmas Eve, and he suits an afternoon at a real rink just as well. His mood is anticipation, so he makes sense anywhere people are counting down together.

Somewhere on that frozen pond a panda is still gliding toward the twenty-fifth, and he would like some company.