Pictures from the past

The other day, I had an idea for a thank you card, but needed a photo I remembered being in an album. I thought I’d search through the books to find it to use.  While doing that, I came across some other pictures I thought I’d share.

There are multiple scrapbooks of my previous work.

I used to do a lot of murals, and tried to keep a record of them all.

It had been a long time since I’d looked through these and it took a while to even find the books. I finally remembered tucking them into a hidey hole cabinet in the guest room wall.  

Flipping through page after page, I was impressed by my prolific production!  

Here are a few pictures that I took of the photos in the album.  

I wish I’d had a good camera back when I took the originals, but I am glad that I have the photos that I do and that I took time to create an album to have now.

Some, I barely remember.  I had to think about this one, then recalled it was a basement laundry room in a KU apartment building.

And this was at a snack bar in Florida by a tennis court.  I had some fun jobs! And was lucky that the people who hired me let me come up with my own design and trusted my ideas.  

I also had a job painting a chain of daycare centers across the Midwest.  I used to do four to five rooms in one day. Each room had its own theme and no two ever came out the same even though I repeated the themes a dozen times.

The daycare murals were done lightening fast because I was on a tight schedule, and not paid much per painting.    They aren’t as detailed as some of the other work, but were quick, colorful, and fun.

The book had some watercolors in it that I’d forgotten about too.  I’ll, show some of those next time.

(By the way, I still can’t find the photo that started the search!)