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Can't believe I'm about to do this, but since moreotherstuff was brave enough (awesome fic bytheway!) I'll do it too...

Here is one of far too many fanfics I wrote.


Please be kind. I was 21 when I wrote this, and English isn't my first language...

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3409192/1/Psychology-101

 

On the opposite side of the spectrum. Here are some depressing poems I wrote (also many moons ago)

This one about an unnamed girl in Zimbabwe:

Silent War

Where can I go, what can I do,
My home is gone, my parents too.
What did the government say,
Oh yes it's a cleanup process….
I guess you can call it that
If there's nothing left,
It must be clean….

What about me, a nine year old child,
Living in a country of delusion,
Our neighbours are ignorant,
The world's in a state of panic,
No one has asked me what I think,
Of my parents dying,

My friends leaving for greener pastures
No one has asked me, and they never will

I'm just a statistic
Another child left homeless, parentless
All because of our dear government
Who think that they can destroy our spirits
By destroying our lives
Well in that…..

They have succeeded


And this one, a bit harder to describe, bit more abstract but still political in nature:

Colours of a Nation

Scarlet rivers cross our past
Empty promises stretch ahead
Cutaneous colours the answer to all
questions
Ebony, Ivory
Perfect Harmony?
Hope
Trust
Faith
Strive
Corrupt Leaders
What of their nation?
Death
Scarlet lines the past
Hope, colourless, if any
Ahead
Strive, Strife
Colourful scarlet
Faith
Hope
Trust
Only if colourless
Green leaves
Blue wind
Purple cities
Strive and strife
Hope and fear
Scarlet for naught

Ons vir jou Suid Afrika

 

Very good story Snipsa. 69 reviews on that one and 26 stories published - all well reviewed. People actually read you! I'm green with envy.

 

Snipsa.......WOW!

 

Bev, Love the colored pencil. I was just starting to work in colored pencil when real life got in the way. I haven't done anything for quite some time. I feel the same way you do about the water color. I have three that I did just around the same time as this colored pencil drawing of my garden basket. Oil is much more forgiving.



Shiloh, those egg ornaments are great. Were they expensive? Do you still do them?

There are some very talented writers here. I haven't finished reading everything but I'm working on it;.

 

I already know not to try writing poetry; everything comes out sounding like bad Country song lyrics... and I don't "do" country. OTOH ... here's two quilts I finished recently. The tops were made a while back, but the backs weren't on.


Hand painted flowers. The pattern is mine. The rug isn't part of the quilt.

Jigsaw puzzle quilt - all loose pieces jigsawed together. Flannel on the front, and some fuzzy synthetic on the back.

 

Yes, they are online at the Gallery, but the partnership has dissolved and the Gallery is closing at the end of December.

 

That's where I had seen them. It's been a while ago.

 

Mill,back in the day I charged 50.00 per goose egg painting,week turn around.Since caring for my Mom I haven't painted since she is now in my old art room.

 

I love quilts Everly.I started a hex patch quilt back in the 70's using blocks from my family's clothes. It still is packed away in a plastic bag unfinished.

 

Gorgeous. I think colored pencil is forgiving - the almighty electric eraser solves many problems!

 

Shiloh - I've found quilts like that in many an estate sale. Get that puppy out and finish it so your kids can fight over it.

 

evelyb, I especially love the first one you show.

 

Thanks. I painted the flower squares. It's on its way to Minnesota as we speak, if it hasn't already arrived. The folks who got it are at a medical mission in Nigeria.

 

You painted those?!
WOW!!

 

Everybody is so talented!
This is me on the mandolin, my wife Mimi on the autoharp, with a band called "Constellation's Crew" featuring Hank Cramer among others. Playing on the dock at Aberdeen, Washington.



And on octave mandolin, at the Tumbleweed Festival in Richland.

 

@ all-fakes - Wonderful!

Evelyb, very nice and I really like the hand painted quilt. You have a lot of patience.

 

WOW! ALL_ Fakes......fantastic, I love the mandolin and you and your wife are very talented. I especially love the second video.

 

This is a painting that I've been wanting to do for a while now. I've had a small sample on my fridge that I drew months ago. It's titled "Addiction". I thought about making the colors solid but this style is growing on me.

 

As ya'all can tell, I love birds I painted these in the 80s I think,I then glued the wood plaques onto a board and framed them. My stupid camera made the detail faint,I tried and tried but these are the best pics I could take.



Hooded Oreo
Altamira Oreo

Scrub Jay

Black Capped Chickadee

Mocking Bird