Okay, so generally I get the jobs that no one else wants. I do the grocery shopping, laundry, painting projects, etc. If nobody wants to do it I will pick up the ball and get the job done.
So my new found "gift" is searching Bing or Goggle for clip art to illustrate the posts of this blog. Again, not a glamorous job, yet I see it as a creative outlet well within my artistic realm. Others have come up with the art, labelled it with a few key words, and I am able to rescue it from cyber space to give visual definition to whatever words we have to say on any given subject in this blog journal. Although I lean toward the vintage black and white photos (they seem to reflect my vintage perspective) I find many images to represent whatever Violet or I have on our minds at the time. My image of a woman standing on a soapbox has been my personal favorite -- it so describes my way of presenting my ideas to the world. And anything with a blond little girl in a tutu pretending to be a grown-up anything seems to represent Violet to me.
I am a visual learner,therefore it seems natural that the clip art and images of this blog would be most important to me as a way to draw the reader into what I am trying to communicate. I want you to feel what I am saying before you even read the text. Maybe I could start a "visuals only" blog... reverting back to the toddler picture books I used when the kids where little. With pictures only you could interpret the book in any way you wanted. There was no right or wrong story to go with the pictures. You could make it happy or sad, good or bad.
As I read the blogs that Violet posts I get an insight to her life and the way that she feels about certain parts of her life. By adding the images to her posts, I am able to help lighten the mood and place a little levity to stressful grown-up parts of her day. Believe me I hear about it if the image does not accurately reflect her thoughts.
Besides, I am ALL about the crown. If there is a sash or scepter included...all the better. So until further notice.....I am the Clip Art Queen.
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