For those of you faithful Bean Blog followers you may remember a post
And the BLUE RIBBON goes to (drum roll please)... as it turns out we were right!
On May 1st in my hometown of North Canton Ohio my Grandfather sat back in his recliner and began enjoying the local paper, The Canton Repository. From the kitchen my Grandmother heard the following "Joyce! I think this is us in the paper!"
As it turns out they
were in the paper. My mother had entered her painting "American Condo" in the annual May Show that is held at The Little Art Gallery of The North Canton Public Library. Her painting had been chosed to be in the paper to advertise the next day's Opening Reception of The May Show!
These are photos of the actual artical that was in the paper.
***WARNING*** THERE IS A MISTAKE IN THIS PAPER!!!!!! Can you spot it? Look close, once you see it you'll want to write a letter to the editor.
The error should be easy for those of you who have been following this story. The paper got the name of the painting WRONG! It's "American Condo" NOT "your condo". The title of this painting is the whole point! If you don't know why, I can't really help you other than to tell you to follow the link to the
previous post about this painting.
Now, about the BLUE RIBBON. My mother won 1st Place in Painting!! Let me repeat that, 1st Place! This actually isn't a suprise to those of us who know this painting, it's just wonderful that it's now been recognized by the whole world! Yay!
What an Opening Reception Party this was. My Grandparents attended in person to join in the festivities! My Grandfather even wore his hat!
Mom, we are all so VERY proud of you. You have gone through a lot in the last few years and you COMPLETELY deserve all of this recognition of all your hard work. This is only the beginning.
While the Bear was out something caught his eye. The most beautiful color yellow! It was so beautiful that he knew he had to bring it back to the cave and give it to his Bean, for she loved all things of colorful beauty.
Upon his return to the cave Bean squealed with delight and lept with joy at not only how beautiful the gift was but that the Bear had thought of her while out and for no special reason at all had brought her this gift of color.
Wanting to capture this color for ever, Bean ran outside with her camera to capture it in natural light. "Hmmm, that's interesting" she thought, "my toes are the same color"!
Everyone enjoyed the gift, even the couple's baby Beanie. Just goes to show you how one simple little act and a splash of color can make everyone's day special. Try it sometime! It can be someting as simple as sharing a color!
