"Spooky Trees Sleepy Hollow Bridge" - Postcard

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This week's Three Muses challenge was "Trees."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Spring Daisies" - Postcard

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This week's Try It On Tuesday challenge was "Inspired by a Word."

This week's Moo Mania challenge was "Close to Nature."

I don't think daisies actually grow in the Spring, but this is where my muse took me. The words in the background describe Spring.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Brown Wall Party Book" - Postcard

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I made a Mardi Gras / Masquerade Ball themed piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Red Illusion Mask" - Postcard

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I made a Mardi Gras / Masquerade Ball themed piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Elephant's Ball 4x6" - Postcard

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I made a Mardi Gras / Masquerade Ball themed piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Elephant's Ball 6x4" - Postcard

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I made a Mardi Gras / Masquerade Ball themed piece.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"T Stands For Teddy Wearing a Mardi Gras Mask" - Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

When Teddy realized this Tuesday fell on Mardi Gras, he started crying and carrying on that he wanted to be shown wearing a mask. After finding and downloading templates from several free sites, I settled on the Cat Mask from this site. Teddy originally wanted a more elaborate owl mask, but I ruled it out after printing a scaled down template to see how it fit him. When he started complaining the cat mask wasn't his first choice, I mentioned that Bleubeard might enjoy seeing it, and that seemed to appease him. I made a design for it, but unfortunately it printed a little darker than it looked on my computer screen. Teddy said he liked it, and plans to wear it all day.

We had several snowfalls over the past week. There was just enough snow to mess up the morning commutes Thursday (2/28) and Friday (3/1). Saturday morning (3/2) ended with about 4 inches of heavy wet snow. Teddy helped me shovel the driveway that day. Then more snow began around 4:45pm EST on Sunday (3/3), and by Monday morning (3/4) we had 5" to 6" of heavy wet snow. But NOAA's estimate said it was 9", which is possible. The snow plow guy comes when there is more than 4", but he never came, so I had to shovel everything myself. I did it in two sessions with a long break in between, because it was too much for me to do all at once. It's just another message telling me I need to move to a condominium because maintaining a house is too much for me now that I'm older.

Because of all of the unexpected snow each day, I didn't get to the grocery store this week, so I didn't have a new flyer with a potential drink to use as our ticket into the gathering. I ended up creating an art piece featuring a woman savoring a cup of coffee.

I've been struggling with artist's block again, so I didn't make much new artwork since last week. (I created the Mardi Gras themed pieces, that will appear starting at midnight 3/5, a few weeks ago, and scheduled them to post on the actual day, so they aren't recent.)

I made some medieval matchboxes using a free template. But I used whole images for each one, so there wasn't anything creative about designing them.

During the weekend, we watched Love from a Stranger (1937) and Mystery Street (1950). Both were good, classic old movies.