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The Taft Museum (part 2)
The Taft Museum of Art is housed in a building that was built in 1820 and is a National Historic Landmark. Home to the families of several millionaires over a period of more than a hundred years, Anna...
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Let's Try This Again...
Somehow, after I posted it, this post just plain got up and disappeared. I knew it was going to bug me until I replaced it, so here it is, again.Om Mani Padme Hum, 7.75 x 7.5 inchesingredients: antique...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation (part 1) - St. Augustine, Florida
I don't want to be one of those annoying people who sit you down and show you hours of boring slides from their vacation. I can remember this being a regular occurrence when I was a child, back before...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation (part 2) - Juniper Springs
Juniper Springs Recreation Area is located in Florida's Ocala National Forest. The swimming area, trails, and were constructed by Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930's. I think they describe it...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Landscape II
Landscape IIcollage, 5 x 7 inchesA nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D....
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation (part 3): Mount Dora
We stopped in Mount Dora to visit with some dear friends, and fell in love with the town. Mount Dora is a quaint and historic town which sits atop the highest point in Florida (184 feet above sea...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation (part 4): Cumberland Island
I copied this from the Cumberland Island website because they said it better than I ever could."Welcome to Georgia's largest barrier island and one of the most spectacular natural habitats in the...
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Seeds of Dharmakaya
Seeds of Dharmkayamixed media, 13.5 x 8.25 inchesingredients: vintage ledger pages, vintage book pages, cut-outs, image transfers, artist pens, metallic ink, watercolor pencils, stitching I can't...
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Alignment
Alignmentmixed media, 6.5 x 6.5 inchesingredients: vintage maps and book pages, image transfers, acetate, watercolor pencils, vintage stamps, stitchingAlignment- (noun) 1. arrangement in a straight...
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Drawing Challenge: Blue
For this drawing challenge, I decided to share a couple of older pieces in which blue is prominently featured. I do tend to favor blue in general, but these are REALLY blue. I never get tired of...
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Printing Up a Storm
I'm not really sure what that means, "up a storm", but it's what my grandmother would say when someone was going at something full-force, as in, "When you were a year old, you were just talking up a...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Let Me Know
I have to confess that this collage was not all that "quick." Originally, it was done rather quickly, but I decided I wasn't satisfied with it, so I continued to work on it, adding more layers until...
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Outhouse Humor - with addendum
This post is not what you probably thought it would be from the connotations of the title. Out at our country retreat, Shabo-Mekaw, we do not have indoor plumbing. (The link takes you to a post that...
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Small Accordion Book No. 2
I had so much fun making the first one, I decided to do another accordion (or concertina) book. I guess I will have to come up with names for them at some point. This one is the same size as the first,...
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Out in the Country
Yesterday we were out at Shabo-Mekaw, sanding and staining. I did get some time to go walking about by the creek, however, so I thought I'd share a few bits of what I saw. By the way, if you're not...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Life
Lifecollage, 7 x 7 inchesShe said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.~ author unknownTo laugh often and much,...
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Secret Doorways
Secret Doorwayscollage, 5 1/2 x 5 1/4You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. Daisaku...
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Reflections
You could say I wasn't having a good day. Without going into detail, I had messed things up, and was suffering the consequences. Feeling very anxious and "out of sorts", I headed down to the creek with...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Meditation
Meditationmixed media collage, 6 x 4 inchesAllowThere is no controlling life.Try corralling a lightning bolt,containing a tornado. Dam astream and it will create a newchannel. Resist, and the tidewill...
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Art Challenge: Room With a View
Lovely Nadine of tinyWOOLF is hosting an art challenge this week; the theme is Room (with a view). An excellent theme, I think, because there are so many possibilities for interpretation.I found this...
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