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vinesqueen    2

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Here are a couple of pix from the ferry ride and drive up to visit my family (Moderators, please work your magic!). The first pix is a view of Whidbey and Camano islands, the second is a shot driving up the island (Whidbey) and the third pix is Spudboy and Ayla

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vinesqueen    2

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Thanks for you kind words, but I think everybody is an artist, it may be that they haven't found their media yet. I've just started to teach myself how to draw, I found a great children's art book and have been working out of that.

Spud teases me that it's not art, it's just a bunch of squares (his running joke about my art.) He calls this one "sticks and string" even though that is clearly a garden hose. :) Hopefully, now that I've done this, I can move on. You should have seen me in my rubber duck period... :) Picaso never had a rubber duck period... :(

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vinesqueen    2

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people who can draw only make up one little fraction of artists. Dancers, writers, painters, photographers, sculpters, gardeners and cooks are only a small portion of artists.

Anything you love to do, be it a traditional fine art, a craft or your avocation can be an artform.

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vinesqueen    2

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Here are a couple of pix from the ferry ride and drive up to visit my family (Moderators, please work your magic!). The first pix is a view of Whidbey and Camano islands, the second is a shot driving up the island (Whidbey) and the third pix is Spudboy and Ayla

could I pretty please get a moderator to fix my pix so they are in a montage?

Pretty please with a cherry on top?

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Penni60    45

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people who can draw only make up one little fraction of artists. Dancers, writers, painters, photographers, sculpters, gardeners and cooks are only a small portion of artists.

Anything you love to do, be it a traditional fine art, a craft or your avocation can be an artform.

Sorta hijack thread. Here is a sample of my artwork.

All Acrylic on canvas.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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