It’s a giraff-iversary!
Exactly a year ago, I posted my first giraffe onto my own Facebook page. I was stressed and tired in my life and thought I’d start drawing as a fun new hobby. Looking back, it was the saddest looking drawing ever but it was fun and it made me smile. So I drew another one. Then I drew a few more.
What a crazy year it has been since then. I don’t know the real stats of Motivating Giraffe but I know I never, ever expected or believed that anything like this could ever come out of a silly idea I had on a random Monday afternoon.
So a huge thank you goes out to my friends/family who have liked these silly giraffes from the beginning (you know who you are), and all of the fellow motivation-lovers that I have met on both the internet and in real life along the way. I love you all of you guys and dearly appreciate your support.
Who knows what the next year will hold?
Bring it on.
Have a beautiful day everyone :)
Motivating Giraffe 
Well done! Wishing you another happy year.
Thank you! :)
let’s hope the following year will bring lots of giraffes!
i love what you do! congrats on your success. w00t!!! :)
Thanks! :)
Only a year old, how cool is that? Congratulations and thank you for the smiles and inspiration!
Isn’t it crazy how much can happen in a year! Thanks so much :)
Congratulations. You have a great toon. :-)
Congratulations. And thank you for the motivation.
Thank you :)
Congratulations! Delighted for you. :) So happy you decided to start drawing giraffes and brightening all of our lives. Thanks so much. :)
Thank YOU :)
Have you seriously only been at this for a year? Motivating Giraffe is an institution surely. Congratulations!
Thanks so much for all of your support, Laura! :)
Congratulations! It’s a treat every time I see that you’ve posted a new one. All the best to you. :)
Thanks Steven :)
You deserve all the credit and accolades that come your way! You turn frowns upside-down.
Thanks so much for all of your support :)
Congrats. You have brought a lot of inspiration to many people. :)
Congrats of the giraffe-iversary. Your posts bring a bright spot of colour and a smile always.
Congratulations! I’m a relatively new subscriber, but I appreciate the giraffe and the motivations thereof. Best wishes for all the upcoming motivations, too.
Thanks Matt! :)
Congrats! I think your drawings would make a perfect flip desk calendar. Can’t wait to see what is next.
Love that idea!
Happy Birthday to the wonderful Motivating Giraffe! May the years to come bring a continuous flow of inspiration and, well yes, motivation! :)
Thank you!! :)
Congratulations! Your drawings always bring a smile to my face. :)
Congrats! I LOVE your giraffe! :))
Love the picture, too cute and funny! Made me chuckle. ;)
Congratulations, and I love your work! Like Kerbey above said, you turn frowns upside-down. :)
Thanks John :)
I love your drawings and inspirational messages. Many blessings to you and lots of success with your blog!
Thank you so much for all of your support along the way! :)
Congratulations! Your drawings are marvellously simple, apt and inspiring. You deserve all your followers and kudos. Here’s to many more successful years.
Thank you! :)
Your illustrations make me smile, time and time again. I’m surprised the movie deal is pending, I would have thought we’d be at Motivating Giraffe Part 3 by now. Great work. Peace, Harlon
Congratulations ! I just love your giraffe drawings. Wish you all the success in the world with them. I post your drawings on my Facebook ad Twitter account all the time.
Shine On
Thanks so much :)
Happy 1 year and wishing you all the best to come with this wonderful, positive giraffe ! I love the inspiring messages that I’ve seen since following. :)
Happy giraff-iversary! So you really don’t have a art background? Is this the most drawing you ever done? And what did you mean by not knowing the ‘real stats?”
Thanks! No art background, and yep this is mostly the only drawing I’ve done. It’s hard to keep track of the ‘real stats’ because I put the pictures up onto a number of different websites :)
Happy First Anniversary! I love your drawings! I don’t know what else to say! :)
Thank you! :)
Holy guacamole. Happy giraff-iversary! I only stumbled across this recently but I love your giraffe drawings. They’ve got so much heart.
Thanks so much! :)
Well as you know I am new to your site and I love what you do ..congradulations on your first year and keep them coming. You give a lot of joy to a lot of peoples…Thankyou.
Thank you very much :)
Awesome very inspiring! Just keep going!
I guess I caught onto you half-way through your year… I haven’t seen anything but excellence. I’m a curmudgeon, and even I can’t help but smile at some of these.
Thank you so very much for all of your support along the way! :)
You’re very welcome. It’s easy to support class and awesomeness! :)
I love this giraffe ^^! I hope for many more :)
Congratulations!
Best wishes for you & all your creative adventures, <3
Thanks! :)
Well done
Congratulations! :)
Congratulations! I always look forward to your posts :)
Congratulations! Thank you for the great cartoons Penny. How nice to have something to smile about. You are very talented so keep them coming.
Thank you for all you choose to allow yourself to be for you and us too.
Congratulations!
My most favorite giraffe!
Happy giraff-erversary! I love these drawings. Congrats & best wishes :D
That’s wonderful news! Congratulations. I love this giraffe. :)
Happy 1 Year, Penny! The Giraffe is wonderful and his little friends, but you are truly the gift that brings the laughter and the motivation. You give so much happiness with your talent. So proud of you. Congrats. <3 – CC (and S)
Thank you so much (both of you), and thanks for all of your support along the way :)
Happy Giraff-erversary Penny. You’ve created something very special that will give pleasure to millions for years to come. Congratulations and warmest good wishes. Looking forward to the next year. Perhaps your giraffe will go to university or become president or be the first giraffe on the moon. You can make it happen :-)
Thanks so much, Andrew! :)
Happy first birthday!!! You are wonderful! 🎉🎂💐
Thank you for this blog! And Happy One Year!
How irksome to be forced to smile when one is determined to not. A year of cheer? Fie on you–Fie, I say! How is a dedicated misanthrope to slope slouching around corners, scowling, when a sunny giraffe greets her every time she comes out the other side? Or a perky piglet?
Congratulations, I suppose. Pffft.
Hahaha thank you :)
Penny, congrats and happy anniversary to “you three” from Vancouver, Canada and one of your newer followers! Your work is lovely.
Shelagh
Thank’s Shelagh! :)
Happy birthday. :-)
Congratulations! I’m so excited to be following your posts, they are unique and amazing! You surely set yourself from the rest :) Keep it going, for there is an audience that feed off the inner most passion that you bring to life.
Amanda :)
Thank you Amanda! :)
I love your inspirational messages. Keep up the good work! Can’t wait to see where this year leads as a recent new follower. I think you’re awesome.
your giraffe is amazing and inspiring :) Keep at it and don’t stop. It’s nice to see blogs like these around.