About a year and a half ago, I started making an afghan. I chose to make small squares, and I thought that this would be a quick process. (insert the sound of a buzzer). As it turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. This afghan requires more than 200 small squares, and I am
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In the past four months or so, I have discovered the joy of collage. It’s a great way to preserve images without having stacks of magazines, brochures, etc., taking up space in your home. The fun of collage is combining similar images to create a theme or somewhat different images to tell a story. It
When I was fifteen years old, I decided that I had no talent for art. Which was actually very late for a kid to make that decision. Generally, kids see the gap between what they are doing and what they feel they should be doing between the ages of nine and eleven. According to an
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Yesterday was the second day of a printmaking workshop that I attended at Starlight Studio and Art Gallery. This studio, located in downtown Buffalo, is designed for adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. It’s a very cheerful looking studio, with brightly colored images decorating the walls. The people who come to the studio daily produce
The last prompt for the july Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to write a recap of the experience. So, here goes. And so…. we approach the end of the July 2026 version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. At midnight, I will post my monthly photograph of rabbits on Facebook because it’s good luck for the start
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Today’s prompt is to talk about my plans for this blog, now that the July challenge is coming to a close. Where would I like to be in 90 days, when the next chapter of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge starts? Today, I am going to share the ninth and last installment of the steampunk bear’s
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Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to talk about how my industry as changed as a result of the U.S. president. This prompt came with a warning: it could be a very controversial post. “Sometimes, you have to stir the pot.” As a storyteller and an observer of life and the world as it is,
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about trainings that I’ve taken to help me in my craft, or to talk about trainings that I would like to take. For me, my best writing training didn’t come in a classroom, but in a book. The book is titled “Writing Down the Bones,”
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Today’s prompt is to talk about tools that make my work easier. These tools should be things that I consider to be indispensible. Actually, the prompt ws to talk about one tool, but, well, I couldn’t pick just one, so there’s that. Well, I would think that my imagination would suffice. I think that it’s
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Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to write about goods or services that I might sell as part of a business. I don’t know if I can do that, so, instead, I am going to continue the story of the Steampunk Bear’s adventure. part six of the steampunk bear’s story During the night,
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