Librarian Trading Cards

As you can see, I decided to add a challenge to the exercise and discovered how much fun it was in creating a Librarian trading card.

My first attempt on Monday, however, was disastrous. After I filled in all the blanks and clicked into the create card tab, it shot my data into the ether world.

This went on for several attempts and I began thinking that the possible problem may be that I needed to purchase the card first--the usual stop gap method online right?

Working with Diana during Tuesday’s workshop, it became apparent my problem stemmed from an incomplete registration process. So after my Google account finished talking with my email account and then to my Flickr account ….and so on, I was up and flying.

Tapestry

For those of you who are unfamiliar these images, they were derived from the tapestry which hangs in the Dean’s conference room on the fifth floor. It is approximately 180 inches long and 2 ½ feet wide. The challenge was to capture the essence rather than the entire image.


My first attempt was to shoot section by section, but the result was rather unappealing, so I began looking closer at the image and realized each section was a miniature “story”. I decided to select unusual images as well as images which had movement, beauty and exquisite needlework. These are my results. Hope it entices you to take a closer look at the craftsmanship and detail that surrounds this piece.

Responding to Lifelong Learning:

One line that sticks in my mind, after reviewing the PowerPoint presentation, and is very appropriate for lifelong learning is, “…think how much you learned so far by the curve balls life has thrown at you.”

How very true this statement is, the times in my life when I struggled most with difficult situations and tenaciously kept working on the problem until I overcame the obstacles, are the lessons I most value today.

Pursuing one’s dreams and overcoming the “…curve balls life has thrown at you…” is the secret, in my opinion, to maintaining a healthy outlook on life.