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What They Have Been Creating

2/13/2021

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In my last blog I asked
what have you been creating?
With so many of us home a lot more, I wanted to feature
​what creatives and artists are working on during this time period.

My first two guests sharing creative endeavors are
Sooz White and Mary Lee Smullen Croatt.

Guest artist Sooz White ​writes: 
"The cards shown here are Valentines, but I always have a stash of others
I’ve made that feature vintage photos or little drawings.
Collage is my “adult coloring.” I enjoy spending a few hours
listening to podcasts or audiobooks while I cut and glue pretty papers.
The result of this mindless and soothing activity is a couple of dozen cards
which become part of my morning routine.
I write one to a friend or an acquaintance while I’m drinking my coffee.
(Last week my car mechanic was on the list).
This has become a tangible and satisfying gratitude practice.
​ The mile-long walk to the mailbox and back is an added benefit!"
​Sooz White
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Next featured is writer Mary Lee Smullen Croatt
​ 
who explains why she wrote her new non-fiction book during the pandemic: 
​"I lived as a child in two different “Rapid Treatment Centers” for Venereal Diseased women during World War II. The first was outside of Wakulla, Florida. The second one was outside of Ocala, Florida.
My book is about the attitude & treatment at the time of infected women before the advent of antibiotics and during the war. Women were blamed, jailed, and later sequestered for treatment.
When I tell people how I happened to live here as a child, they are surprised to learn about the epidemic of venereal disease during WWII. My medical parents were part of the war effort to control and treat the disease. My inspiration is that this history needs to be recorded. "
Mary Lee Croatt

https://www.amazon.com/VD-Girls-World-War-Forgotten/dp/B08LJV74YG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1613228714&refinements=p_27%3AMary++Lee+Smullen+Croatt&s=books&sr=1-1
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What Have You Been Creating?                   February 2021

2/8/2021

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Hi Friends,
I hope this letter finds you well and creative!
I want to know what you have been creating!

My husband is now retired and to my weight's dismay, he is making bread.
He has always wanted to have time to bake breads and now he has it!
I have been encouraging him even though I have gained 5-6 lbs since he began baking! 
Oh the sourdough and whole wheat.

Encouraging creativity is a wonderful thing!
Even though I have gained weight, I am thrilled that my husband
​is satisfying his creativity through bread making and woodworking.

During this time of being home more, what have you all been creating?
Send me emails with photos and I can feature them in an upcoming blog.

I will share more in a second blog this month to make up for missing a couple of months!

So email me with a paragraph of what you are creating, whether it art, food, gardening, crafts, or whatever as I would love to feature some creative time during Covid!

​Laura Bohn
bohnlaura1@gmail.com
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      • Watercolors on Paper
    • Portrait & Figurative Paintings
  • Abstract Expressionist Paintings
    • Musical Paintings
    • Dance
    • ASSEMBLAGE
    • Painting Retreats
    • Petroglyph inspired
  • SHOP
    • Waterscapes
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