Tag Archives: hometown

Accepted!

Accepted!
Accepted!

I have two collages accepted for this exhibition! I almost chickened out. It’s my first time submitting!

I’ve shared this one several times. I finally named it, Bound for Glory, as in 🎶 “This train is bound for glory, this train!”🎶

The second one is a result of the #makerscollagechallenge2026, from Makers of Mixed Media Art/Artists, a Facebook group created by PMartist Studio. The collage prompts are selected by Eddie Reyes and Darcy Sanders, two of PMartist’s designers. One of the prompts was, “Hometown,” so that’s what I named it!

I Write a Little, Too

I Write a Little, Too
I Write a Little, Too
Forester’s Nu-Way, N.Wilkesboro, NC

This is an old gas station and landmark in my hometown that is currently being restored, pun intended. It opened in 1928, and stayed open 24/7. It will most likely become a museum. I wrote this in response to an article by Wilkes Weather and Breaking News:

They should sell pacifiers. In the late 50’s, when I was a toddler, I was forever losing my pacifier (like my phone, today.) I would throw screaming fits, I was told, and would not go to sleep without my paci. Daddy, Fred C. McLean, would put me in the car, in my sleepers, and take me to Forester’s Nu-Way, buy a new paci and pop it in my mouth on the spot. Remember, Forester’s was open all night!
They say children who are attached to their paci’s talk too much as older children and adults. I don’t believe a word of it! -Karla