Day 1862: More steps ...

joelle, collage, photo & digital

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Click here for Charlie Puth, Attention.

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Another quick step by step postcard ...

I took this one on as a challenge.

step 2  junk mail collage

step 1 drawing & watercolor

- - - ->

step 3 ,ore junk mail collage

step 4 add polka dots & ink

- - - ->

step 5 finishing touches

Not my favorite, but fun to try & save a sketch & make a card.

step 6  backside

I love doing a small collage on the address side of each postcard.

For FB Throwback Thursday ...

Erin, age 2 & Uncle Skete, Lebanon, Indiana 1975

Happy Birthday to Uncle Skete, an angel in heaven.

(mentioned & pictures here)

A smile for Thursday ...

The first sign of the Alpacalypse!

Day 1861: Go take that test.

Redondo, collage, photo & digital

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Click here for Yolanda Adams & Donnie McClurkin, The Prayer

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Another memory,  a short story ...

We were married in 1962, before our senior year in college.

We rented the upstairs apartment in Mom Hunt's house.

She was my husband's fraternity house mother.

We thought she was ancient at the time, 

but now I realize she was probably my age.

In October, during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis, 

I had a really difficult kinesiology final exam to go to, but...

was immobilized by the very real threat of war in the news.

Mom Hunt came in to find me sitting in the stairway.

I was deciding whether to go or not, and not was winning.

She asked if I was okay? I said yes, but she knew better.

I explained that I didn't see any reason to go to the test,

as everything seemed so hopeless, doomed.

She sat beside me, patted my knee and gave

some words of advice, the one's I still remember ...

"Oh Honey, life goes on. Go take that test."
I did.

 by StoryPeople by Brian Andreas

A thought for Wednesday ...

Day 1860: Will power of a gnat!

heatwave selfie:  collage, photo & digital

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Click here for Stevie Wonder, Isn't she lovely.

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You know a gnat, right? Tiny, right?

 

Imagine the size of their will power?

That's me, with the will power of a gnat!

Not all the time, but ...

when Grandhunk #1 calls & says ...

"Mom (WW) & I want you to join us for lunch @ 11:45?"

For anyone else asking it would be an easy "sorry",

as I have used this reply for 46 years ...

but, in a nano-second I said "Yes Please!"

And thus gnat will power sends the excuse out the window!

I have my priorities in order, most of the time.

And, lunch was delicious!

A smile for Tuesday ...

Day 1859: Sunday workout!

truth 2 , junk mail collage & digital.

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Click here for  Hiroshima, One wish.

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Japan Karate Champion, Shoto-kan Instructor & Coach ...

Ken Nishiki

 

visited Demura sensei's Honbu dojo 

for three days of intensive seminar's in

 kata, kumite & on Sunday, a special

 Yudansha clinic on Chatayara Kushanku

Thank you Ken for sharing you knowledge,

skills, and speed with us. You are inspiring.

Arigato

 

A smile for Monday ...