For Teapot Tuesday this week, Susan introduced us to an amazing hotel in Oregon where every room has a different theme, based on different authors. The JK Rowling room was an obvious choice for me, but I decided to celebrate Mark Twain.
Many years ago, I attended a writing seminar at the University of Missouri. It was for business writers, but at our heart, we were all readers, too, and so a bunch of us crowded into a small car and drove to Twain's hometown of Hanibal one Saturday. It was a small town that didn't seem to have changed much since he was a boy.
The very first Twain writing I ever encountered, as far as I remember, is Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, so that was my inspiration for this card. I just sort of compiled it from bits -- the fence die cut is from a previous Tickle, I've had the paintbrush stamp forever and maybe never used it before. I found clip art for the boy and Googled the quote and printed it out.
Another story: I interviewed the director of the Peachtree Road Race, which is a HUGE 10K held on the 4th of July through Atlanta. One thing she said that I'll always remember is that the race depends on volunteers to run smoothly, so part of her job "was to be like Tom Sawyer and convince people that painting a fence is great fun."
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 GMT Views: 792
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Thu, Apr 29, 2021 @ 7:26 AM
I don't know, does he? I love your colors, that would have been a riot to color the fence in rainbow colors!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Thu, Apr 29, 2021 @ 11:52 AM
LOVELY STORY AND GREAT TAKE ON THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. I REMEMBER READING HIM FIRST IN GRADE SCHOOL. BOOKS LIKE THIS MUST HAVE GOTTEN INTO MY BLOOD, I HAVE NEVER STOPPED LOVING BOOKS.. GREAT WAY TO PUT THE RAINBOW BRUSH OF COLORS INTO "THE IMAGINATION"