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A good friend told me about a NinetoFive mag contest to alter a travel ticket - winner wins a year's free travel. I'm up for a challenge - I sent in my creation but it didn't get picked [oh well]. The winner and top 10 are pretty cool!
I used bee's wax to encase a photo I had taken of a train pulling away from West Ryde station and of course, had to include a poem of sorts [using words cut out from CityRail brochures]...and an arrow!
Amy won a contest recently - maybe her luck will rub off on me one of these days! ...keep going!
I was reading on Emily's blog about her new hairstyle and Mad Men (Jon Hamm aka Don Draper is a St Louis boy)! Series 2 has just started on SBS and I must admit, I'm kind of hooked. I decided to go back and watch Series 1. As I was watching it - the talk of advertising...etc, it reminded me of my parents - my mom and dad after all met at work. My dad was a young exec at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati and my mom was a secretary...hmmm. My mom years ago put together some photo albums for me and I was looking through them...this is my mom circa late 1950's looking very glam!! My mom told me that my dad took the train to New York to see the Ad Agencies back then - I think one episode of Mad Men mentioned a trip by train from NY to Cleveland took 9 hours. I love the stories my dad tells us of his time at P&G - the new products (cake mix, nappies [diapers]) - could be some Mad Men episodes in there... 
As I was looking through the old photos I remembered an online art challenge I did a few years ago - I had a weekly prompt - and was required to alter a playing card - here's the one from the prompt called "Parents". My mom and dad look awesome - 4 kids at that stage - we were vacationing in Florida.
Love the sunnies!
Sadly, my football season has come to an end. My team finished in 2nd place in the comp - up from 3rd last year (that's me in goals)!! We just finished the round robin for the Championship - and have been knocked out by losing in our first game 2-0 and we drew 1-1 in the 2nd. I'm so proud of my team and of me for playing 16 games!! Go Rovers!
I have been the team manager for the last 2 years (Russell coaches) - and I love it!! I made key chains for my team - one side of the key chain was a smaller version of this post card - which I altered - the "Come Play" is for the campaign to bring the World Cup to Australia!!
