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Creative Bug

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with
the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.”   –  Hugh MacLeod

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little things

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. – Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

lighthouse
little lighthouses

before glue

A vintage rotary phone that I painted decades ago.

Well ...
call your mother © mara lee

Which lead to painting a matching telephone table.

mosaic-table.jpg

I was so inspired that I painted this metal stool too. I wonder if Lisa  still has it in her kitchen?

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And, I did it all with paint pens.

Just another fine example of inspiration slapping you in the face and then skipping away.

mother recycled china centerpiece in shop

call your mother vintage rotary phone, telephone table and  vintage metal stool – private collection

peace.

p.s. my first MAC computer still works.