“She left her home one morning/For her school not far away./And no one dreamed that danger/Was lurking near that day” On December 15, 1927, Marion Parker, the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles, was abducted from her school. Nineteen-year-old Edward Hickman showed up at the school Marian attended with her …
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Here is a direct quote from Monday Artday introducing the weekly challenge: “THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE Wee Folk – use any medium to illustrate the theme. Wee Folk are leprechauns, faeries, sprites, brownies, etc.” maybe I misunderstood…
This week’s challenge word on illustrationfriday.com is “garden”. In the Garden of Eden (or as Iron Butterfly said “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”) story from Genesis, God molds Adam from the dust of the Earth, then forms Eve from Adam’s “side”, and places them both in the garden, eastward in Eden. “Male and female he created them; and blessed them, …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “wicked”. “Wicked” Wilson Pickett was born March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama, and grew up singing in Baptist church choirs. He was the youngest of 11 children. He made reference to his mother as “the baddest woman in my book.” He said, “I get scared of her now. She …
Born Harriet Shapiro on July 9, 1927 in Boston, Susan Cabot grew up shuffled between 8 foster homes. She developed an interest in acting and singing performing evenings at Manhattans Village Barn. A film career seemed destined when the nightclub singer appeared in the 1947 film Kiss of Death with Colleen Gray and Victor …
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “change”. “Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.” This quote has been listed in some sources as an authentic Gypsy or Eastern European folk saying. Screenwriter Curt …
The challenge at illustrationfriday.com this week is “leap”. faster than a speeding bullet more powerful than a locomotive and able to blah blah blah…
The weekly challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “mechanical”. It’s always tough finding a spot at the bar at the Piston My Brake Shoes Pub.
Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer, best known as a Bollywood playback singer. A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs on soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has …
The challenge this week at Monday Artday is “underground”. Vance Palmer was born September 16, 1893. In the early twentieth century, hundreds of boys like Vance worked as “door boys” or “nippers” in coal mines. Door boys were never over fourteen years of age and sometimes as young as ten. The work of the door …
