Ann Seeber

My mother made sure I had lots of music in my life. She played the piano beautifully. When I was a child, I was asked which I would prefer, a television or a piano, and with my mother in mind, I chose the piano. In her youth she was a ballroom dancing champion. She was raised in the Jazz Age and was a lover of the composer George Gershwin - his orchestrations and musicals. She took me to movie musicals every week since my dad worked nights and had to sleep. I took piano lessons for 7 years and couldn't get past the 2nd grade book. Mom read sheet music like a book and could play anything, at tempo, on first sight. I think I was intimidated. I did love music and every Saturday the Metropolitan Opera held forth from our radio. After I was married, I went to Adult Education classes and took up the guitar; came home and repeated the lesson for my husband. Mostly we played The Beatles. LOL Here's a tribute to my musical mother that I created during my first year here on the Campus.

My Year in Review - featuring family photos. The center strip is Jonah's new teeth!

Wow! Thanks Anja - love the colors!!

Nice, Bonnie. I'm going to try my hand at this one, too.

You do beautiful work, Mary! Those Labs and your hard work really pay off!

P = Pilates

Thank you, Corrie. We did get through all the Christmas celebrating so I feel lucky. I am fully vaxxed so that helped to make it a mild case.

I felt ill on Dec 27 and tested positive for Covid on the 28th. It has now been 10 days and I'm finally clear. I had mostly upper sinus involvement with a little coughing. No fever just felt sleepy all the time. Looking forward to the Q & A and the new template workshop. Hope everyone else feels better, too.

Very pleasant layout, Mary! All that Lab practice is doing a great job!

I went back to a former Year in Review layout and edited it for 2023. I picked out my favorite projects from each month of the year but, because the illustrations are confined to a square format, I didn't include our calendar project from November. The date is a font: Algerian with a gold metallic gradient and an inner bevel.

G = Goat Yoga!

That would be in 2022? Your illustrated examples look different:

I'm in! Looking forward to something new. Thanks, Carole!

Happy New Year! Here is my January Wild Cat Calendar for 2024. The image is from Wikimedia. The title font is Wide Latin. The Jaguarundi is a small wild cat from Central and South America and is listed as Endangered.

My favorite New Year's Wish