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stopped at the library after work today, and actually got some art, out! 🎉 watercolor (last week), ink & colored pencil (today!) . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #cpt100day #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #ushistory #watercolor #angorawatercolor #watercolorandink #coloredpencil #abstractart #centennial #1974 #sportshistory #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #ustennis #tennishistory #100followers!(🤗 thanks!)

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a beautiful plant taking over a back corner of the yard... . . #creepingcharlie #groundivy #perennial #botanicalart #letitgrow #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject

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day 18/100: Daniel Boone stamp . .#100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #cpt100day #mnartist #coloredpencil #greatdanedraws #firstdaycover #cachet #danielboone #wildernessroad (at Daniel Boone's Grave)

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commemorating the purchase of France's Louisiana Territory in 1803 - paying the equivalent of $15 million (about $300 mill in today's dollars.) . Also, i loved maps and geography as a kid -even participating in a state-level geography bee .. 🐝 😆 day14/100 . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #150years #firstdaycover #mailart #cpt100day #mnartist #coloredpencil #greatdanedraws #firstdaycover #cachet #louisianapurchase #ushistory #sesquicentennial #mapdrawing #geography #northstarcollectable (at Missouri History Museum)

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day 7. commemorating the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System . might add some more to this one. not sure. used my time after work to run errands and check out the clearance at Target. so i was trying to get this done before bringing the girls up to bed. hope the edit's ok because i'm posting in the dark.. 😉 . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #MKARNS #arkansasriver #rivernavigation #corpsofengineers #riverbarge #cpt100day #gotmyselfasweetnewcardigan8bucks (at River Market, Little Rock)

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blind contour peony . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #artchallenge #lefthanded #pentelarts #peonyflower #peonyplant #doyouwantants #thatshowyougetants

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these are are either olive leaves or bay/laurel leaves 🍃 . inspired by my fave, Mucha ✍🏻 . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #mnartist #alphonsemucha #laurelwreath #oliveleaves #bayleaves #muchainspired #artnouveau #sketch #wip #muchamonday #whilebabysleeps

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drew some dandelions today- before going to a book signing tonight for Johnna Holmgren/@foxmeetsbear 's "Tales from a Forager's Kitchen" 👩🏼‍🌾📔 . . #leafillustration #leaves #dandelionseeds #dandelions #phytomorphology #forager #inspired #fieldguide #plantmorphology #biology #botany #botanicalart #mechanicalpencil #mnartist #curiosityandwonderment #TalesFromAForagersKitchen #100daysofleavesandcachets (at The Foundry Home Goods)

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"What Cheer, Netop?" - 17th century equivalent to -'What's up, man?' meaning -What news of cheer do you bring? and 'Netop' - the Narrangansett word for 'friend.' . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #rogerwilliams #providencerhodeisland #whatcheer #netop #narragansetts #precolonial #newengland #tercentennary #1936 #300years #churchandstate #stateseal (at Roger Williams National Memorial)

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day 37/100 50th anniversary of Easter Seals: organized by a father who lost his son in a streetcar accident. The lack of adequate services available to save his son ultimately led to his founding of the National Society for Crippled Children in 1919. Now called Easterseals, the organization offers indispensable resources to more than a million people and families living with a disability every year.. . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #easterseals #collectable @easter_seals (at Easter Seals Wisconsin Camps)

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drew this inspired by our living-room rug, and asked my 4-yr-old to color it. 👌🏻😍 . . i've decided i'm not going to "catch up." we're going to just do the best we can. 😅 because i'm learning, and that is a point of this exercise, isn't it. stress and anxiety, most of the time, causes me to shut down -and that will not move me forward. ...And I know my littles won't be little forever... (😭) so... . #100daysofleavesandcachets day 35/100 #100dayproject #artchallenge #the100dayproject #cpt100day #carveouttimeforart #momartist #artistmom #paralysisbyanalysis #anxiety #introvertmom #introvert #liveandlearn #progressnotperfection

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commemorating John Glenn's 1st orbital flight in the Friendship 7 spacecraft for NASA on February 20th, 1962. Glenn completed 3 orbits and covered nearly 66,000 miles in just under 5 hours time.. . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #projectmercury #spacerace #NASA #spaceflight #1962 #spacehistory #mercuryredstone #redstonerocket #friendship7 #johnglenn #astronaut (at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center)

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a Project Mercury patch, with the seven astronauts/missions/spacecraft. And i started another and kind of drew the wrong rocket... this was the rocket that launched Alan Shepard and the Freedom 7 into space - when the stamp is sort of commemorating the launch of John Glenn and the Friendship 7 for the first trip orbiting the Earth... 🙈 . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #projectmercury #spacerace #NASA #spaceflight #1962 #spacehistory #redstonerocket (at Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA))

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Project Mercury ran from 1958 to 1963 - the first human space flight program. i was inspired to create this cachet when reading about the women of NASA, or the "Human Computers," behind the scenes that supported these missions... . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #100dayproject #the100dayproject #stampcollecting #artcachet #philately #firstdaycover #mailart #artdaily #mnartist #hiddenfigures #humancomputers #womenshistory #blackhistory #womeninSTEM #womeninscience #projectmercury #mathematician #spacerace #NASA #spaceflight #1962 #spacehistory (at NASA Langley Research Center)

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27/100 Paper Birch 📃 . love these trees. have an unfinished mural i started with some birch on my bedroom wall.. . #paperbirch #birchtree #treedrawing #leafillustration #leaves #foliage #canoebirch #phytomorphology #plantmorphology #biology #botany #dendrology #lunchbreak #100daysofleavesandcachets

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cachets in progress ✉️✍🏻. . since my father in law gave me multiple of these 'Project Mercury' envelopes, i thought i'd be able to do my research, plan and do multiple ones/designs -- maybe catch up on my goal... been hard to get time this week.. . . #100daysofleavesandcachets #projectmercury #spacerace #worksinprogress #cachets