The sketchy and inconsistent blog of Bethie Engstrom...

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Wake Up Call

Medium:  Watercolor
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Dress up

Medium: Watercolors

I think we all agree, even as we get older or are older then the age of 5, that we love to dress up. Boys and girls alike. This was a lot of fun to sketch and paint.

Go and dress up.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Challenge!

I challenge you, and you, and you (and yes, you too hiding behind that screen) to write!

Sound common huh (someone telling you to write)? But I'm not challenging you to just write, no, I'm challenging you to write worthy quotes... To create sayings that will be remembered 50+ years from now. Write them, share then, get them out there!

Will you?

Thursday, April 29, 2010

47 Years Overdue, Book is Returned to Library

Patron pays $171.32 late fee for “Prince of Egypt”

{from The Associated Press} --- Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he had checked out for a ninth-grade assignment – along with a check for 47 years’ worth of late fees.
Nuranen said his mother misplaced the copy of “Prince of Egypt” while cleaning the house. The family came across it every so often, only to set it aside again. He found it last week while looking through a box in the attic.
“I figured I’d better get it in before we waited another 10 years,” he said after turning it in Friday with the $171.32 check. “Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing.”
The book, with its last due date stamped June 2, 1960, was part of the young Nuranen’s fascination with Egypt. He went on to visit that country and 54 others, and all 50 states, he said, but he never did finish the book.
Nuranen now lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches seventh-grade social studies and language arts.
The library had long ago lost any record of the book, librarian Sue Zubiena said.
“I’m going to use it as a example,” she said. “It’s never to late to return you books.”

This is a article clipped from The Seattle Times, dated Monday, January 8, 2007 … I found it with a bunch of other loose papers in some of my old school bins. It made me laugh and I thought to share it.


Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Thought Provoking Tuesday {more "funny" then "provoking"}

Here's a good one ... and I secretly hope its true. =)
Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented.
It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden".
And thus, the word GOLF (and the sport) entered into the English language.


(tell me if you don't get it)