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When You Have Art in Your Veins...

Everything is a canvas.


Artwork created using toy farm implements on carpet. Unfortunately, the vacuum prevailed...
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  1. Cathe HoldenSeptember 11, 2008 at 1:53 PM

    Had a sec to check out your blog-
    Ok, until I read the post, I swear I thought this was an arial photo of crop circles. (Just another tractor hoax, I see. Ha ha.)

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  2. Missus WookieSeptember 12, 2008 at 11:14 AM

    That is lovely :) Glad you got a photo of it before it was swept away.

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  3. PamSeptember 14, 2008 at 1:01 AM

    Wow, that is really lovely Lona! Hate to vacuum (or walk on) artwork like that! :-)

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