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More work to do on this painting. There were three fireflies, but somehow two flew away before they settled into the painting! There’s a lot going on in this scene. Also posted are some photographs of the real places in The Hillock. Lots of learning for me behind the scenes in this painting! Probably more learning going on for me than for Martha Julia Agnes Adele!

The Stone Steps to the Fairy Queen’s Stone Door …and Back Door
The Fairy Queen’s Throne

From Fine Motor and Mental to Gross Motor Mania!

Needed a weekend breather from fine motor work…though gross motor was a bit more challenging at age 70 than writing and ink n watercolor! Grateful for my cheerleader in the background! And her wises advice to my question of “what should I do next?” Her answer, “maybe it’s time to stop!” Good move! Back to Martha Julia Agnes Adele’s shoe hunt tomorrow!

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Can you find the visiting Ladybug who landed on todays painting? She landed once on the fairy’s nose, but then found a bit of nature that she like more! I’m finally getting enough of a painting done to move on! Tomorrow’s page got really complicated. Be ready for some paste-ups! Hurray for finishing early today! Now to push ahead!!! I’m worried Martha is going to get blisters if she doesn’t hurry and find her shoe!

Can you find the Live Ladybug who flew into the painting?

Martha Julia Agnes Adele : Small Views of First 18 PAGES

Thought I’d encapsulate the first stages of the first 18 pages of Martha’s Journey to Find her Shoe, just as a way to view them altogether. There will be changes, but for now, this is it. Still have about 12 more pages to finish drawing and painting.

PAGES 1-9
PAGES !0 – 18

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Getting going again with this seems harder than before! The story is finished all 29 or 30 pages! Just always more ways to edit. It’s the drawings and paintings that are taking so long. Just to get a drawing done took me most all of today! So painting will need to be tomorrow. (Learning to just STOP for a day, even if I’m not finished.) That’s really hard for me, but I’m too good at wearing myself out doing it the other way! Learning when enough needs to be enough. Hopefully, in the end it’ll be worth it to not burn out. We’ll see!

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Have you ever lost a shoe for 5 whole years?! Well, that’s been how long it has been since Martha Julia Adele has been looking for hers! (actually it has been 6 years since she tripped and fell and started searching in The Hillock for her shoe!”

I took a really long sabbatical from working on her story to help find her shoe! I COULD chalk it off to letting distractions like Six Wonderful Grandchildren being added to our lives! or all the other writing and creating I’ve been doing without posting. Thank goodness Martha Julia Agnes Adele is a timeless soul whose foot doesn’t outgrow the shoe she is seeking!

If you’ve forgotten the plot of this story and want to follow it, I invite you to go to my categories list and click on Martha Julia Agnes Adele and start reading it ‘backwards? or should I say forwards? from my first posting to the present…pgs 1-17. Don’t worry, Martha Julia Agnes Adele….I’m back on the journey with you at The Hillock, and WE WILL FIND YOUR SHOE!

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