I paint small.
Today I’m showing watercolor earrings I just finished.
Here are a few. They are coated to protect the art.
They are $5 each pair and $1 postage from me. There are more at Sissy’s in Seymour.
Thinking of buying local? From the artist? Need a unique gift? Contact me at sunnybook@aol.com.
Copyright 2019 by Susan Manzke, all rights reserved.
It was the last showing at our library. I didn’t know if I’d make it, but somehow I managed to squeeze out three hours to join the fun in Seymour.
This was the second year our little library was included in the worldwide showing of the ten films featured in the Manhattan Short Film Festival.
Imagine little ole Seymour being included in this global event.
The other three showings had more viewers. Sunday afternoon is football time, after all, but we had enough people (all women) to make comments and share reactions during the break. Also, the free popcorn added to our movie event.
I can’t wait until next October when we will host the 23rd Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.
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Today I joined a group of women from the Outagamie County University of Wisconsin Extension – Association for Home and Community Education at their fall Picture Perfect program.
The people there were dedicated to repurposing cards and calendars.
Some of the women were taking old cards, cutting and pasting them together to form new cards.
I worked across from Lois Schwister. We and others were taking old calendar photos, putting them into plastic sleeves, and making flipbooks. These would eventually be used by people with dimension.
The repurposed cards are given to other people to use as they wish.
It was a good day to work with industrious, talented ladies who also made a great pot luck lunch.
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I was checking online for the cost of a hand rest to use when painting. Many times I’ve smudge a work by setting my palm on my painting. I know that there are plastic gadgets can mostly eliminate this problem and that’s what I wanted.
After seeing the prices ($20 to $40) of the manufactured hand rests, I decided to make my own. I took some packaging foam pieces and glued them together. That didn’t work at all. The cross piece just bent and made its own mark on my painting. Ugh.
After hearing my complaints, Bob took two of my tiles and went down to the basement. In a little while, I heard the saw cutting something. Not much later Bob came up again and said, “I made you a hand rest. You can’t try it yet. It’s glued and needs to dry.”
I couldn’t wait to see it and raced down to his workbench. His solution was much better than anything I considered.
Both the 4 by 4 and the 6 by 6 tiles fit. The rest works perfectly, as long as I don’t mess up my painting some other way.
Thanks to my honey I can do the fine work with ease. Thanks to Bob’s own creativity, I now can paint with fewer problems.
Today Rebecca and Andy came for a visit. Andy grilled hot dogs for our lunch and I went rock hunting with Rebecca.
Our daughter creates beautiful copper trees. She sells them in shops and under our canopy at the Seymour Farmer’s Market.
Her trees are all mounted on rocks, most of which she found on her dad’s rock pile on the farm.
As I sat on our cart, Rebecca went rock hunting. She looks them all over and only takes the best rocks for her trees.
Andy says Rebecca has enough rocks at home, but there will never be enough rocks for our daughter and her copper trees.
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