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Do you know how some things seem to go full cycle? Back when the Kansas prairie was being settled there were people/families that would open stores or trading posts that would be the one-stop shopping for everyone for miles around, simply because it was the ONLY store for miles around. Here you bought your groceries and hardware, but most of all, this was the place that you picked up and dropped

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I was in downtown Norwich last night to video a promotion for Merchants Night, which we decided to postpone till March, and was fortunate to have my audio/video equipment with me when music broke out... I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did!Edit: I forgot to mention, this lovely old upright piano is for sale. Store address and hours in THIS post.

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I've got a busy weekend with family ahead, but I wanted to give you a little taste of what I have in store for my next featured Kansas talent. This is a wonderful little store that's fairly new to Norwich, KS. It's an antique/consignment store with lots of items both old and new to keep you browsing for quite some time. Everything is laid out in a way that is pleasing to the eye and gives a

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Psiplex is hosting the June Design Blogging Project. The challenge was...The group's name is Xerces. They are your countrymen and need to make a global impact with this release. Groundbreaking artwork for their CD will be used to carry over to their other media to create a strong connection to the group. Xerces' main focus is music for rain forests. They are all about letting the world know about

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Today I'm featuring a local business because I believe it takes talent to open and run a small town business, especially in today's economic environment. Rowan's story is taken from the forward of their book... The beginning of Rowan Apiary was June 3, 1967 when I married Jim. Jim had started keeping bees when he was ten years old and had become a passionate beekeeper. I gained a husband and

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My son finally got the shop/shed that he's been wanting. He's gotten all his tools out of the house and out from under his wife's feet and he finally has someplace to do what he does best, create. Well, to create things you first have to create stuff to make your tools function to your liking. Here's two creations that he showed me when I was there the other day. First he built wheels for his

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My dad wasn't born in Kansas, but he's lived most of his life here. He was born in the flatlands of Colorado, right across the line from Kansas in the Joes/Kirk area. He didn't see the mountains till he joined the military so he might as well have been born in Kansas. I'm not sure when dad started carving, but I remember him carving chains and balls in boxes when he helped with the Boyscouts.

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Since I haven't posted in a while I thought I'd do a little bragging since I don't have anything new to add. About talented Kansans, most Kansans I know are multi-talented, though they don't consider themselves to be talented at all. We learn to do things simply because they need to be done, or make things because we want/need to have them. We see things in stores and think they're nice and at

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One winter my brother-in-law made all the boys wooden 3D puzzles. To tell them apart he painted the ends different colors for each boy. They had a lot fun with these and at least one still exists, though I believe it may be a combination of two separate puzzles. Click on the picture to see the puzzle and all it's pieces. I don't know what I need to do to make an animated .gif work in a post on

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My best friend since the 8th grade was creating painted skulls and selling them at one time. I helped her set up a webpage to advertise but it didn't really hit it off. The following are the graphics that I used on that website (also the banner above). I did some web weaving on some of them for her.

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This is a video montage that I put together from footage from the 17th Annual Big Boys Toy Show at Century 2 in Wichita Kansas. My son and I set up the big screen at this event every year for the past several years. We project the main stage events up on the big screen live and between events we have fun putting participants and their children, especially the children, up on the big screen. I

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I haven't posted anything to this blog lately because, to be honest, I don't get out much. That being said, if you know of a talented Kansan that doesn't have their own blog and you feel they REALLY deserve to be showcased, PLEASE let me know and I will gladly give them the exposure they deserve! Comment to this blog or see my profile to email me.If you don't send me someone to showcase I will be

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Since I have had no new talent to add to my blog lately I thought I'd just add a picture I created as something fun I did for the granddaughters. I might use it in the story, but mainly was just learning to use the program.

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I debated on putting this here, on KS Born Talent, or over on my original blog, KS Born. Since I put my original post about the "Magic Kingdom" (very first post) on KS Born Talent I decided to post this here and then mention it on KS Born. I do not consider myself much of a sketch artist or painter. I have dabbled a bit in all of these, and have actually drawn a few things that I was rather proud

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Years ago I started researching my family history. I had a great-uncle that had been doing genealogy since the '50s (I think). He actually taught a course on researching genealogy in Albuquerque, NM. I have published two family history books. One on my Father's - Father's line and the other on my Mother's - Mother's line. My paternal line book is the Abraham Heinrichs Family which is

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Just playing around in PhotoShop Elements that came with the Wacom Tablet. Thought I'd just put a "Warhol" together. Just a simple picture of a bunch of flowers. I love the way the different colors and effects transforms them. Can you pick a favorite?

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I have a new toy/tool for creating my computer generated projects. It's a Wacom tablet which will make cutting out and detail work soooo much easier on my hand. It is bluetooth and has a battery so I can use it completely wireless. Below is a picture of the tablet with the mouse and pen in it's holder above it. Below is the first picture I've doctored using the Wacom. I have several other photos

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I thoroughly enjoyed making the Native American artwork and adornment. I even made my grandson a shirt, leggings, breechcloth, moccasins, ankle bells, breastplate and headband with two feathers. I did beading on the headband and down the sides of the leggings but never decided what to put on the breechcloth so I never got it done. He was around 3 or 4 when I did this, and I took him to a Pow-Wow

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Ryan Windham is another Wichita Talent that I'm not sure whether he was born in Kansas but lives here now. Shad and I set up the big screen to project live at Big Boys Toy Show every year for the last 3 or 4 years. Last year Ryan was one of the main attractions giving performances on stage, so I taped him. Entercom broadcasting had sponsored the "Wichita's Got Talent" contest and Ryan was the

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Many years back I had the choice of buying a camcorder or digital camera. At that time digital cameras were quite expensive and they weren't really all that good of quality, so I reasoned, with a camcorder I could put my videos on the computer and cut clips from them, just like having a digital camera. I found that it was an excellent digital camera since I was able to get shots that I probably

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Saturday, August 11th, will be the eighth BoxABuddy since T&S Mobile Projectors has been taping and creating DVDs of the event. Pictures below are the brochures and less than half of the DVDs that I burned, printed, put together for this upcoming event. The box at the top of the picture is a display that my son has built to leave at McGraws to promote the sell of the DVDs. The small area on the

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In June, my husband and I attended the 38th Annual International Convention of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia in Hays, Kansas. I took one of the T&S Mobile Projectors camcorders and taped the majority of the programs from Wednesday night till noon Sunday. The DVDs above are what I have gotten edited and burned so far. I still have about 16 tapes to transfer and edit. The

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I woke up to find these pictures on my computer. My son had sent them, he has remote access to my computer and can suprise me with such things. This clay creation was made by a guy that he works with at CompUSA. I guess it's made out of a soft clay that can't be fired and doesn't dry up to quickly. I don't model so I know little about clay. Anyone know of a way to harden or preserve this type of

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The following are pictures of items that I made in years past. I have sold or given away all but one or two of these.This is a combination dream catcher and chimes. I had made chimes out of silverware several years before, putting them together with bent wire decorations and old glass beads. The combination of the chimes with the dream catchers turned out better than I had imagined.The chokers

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My Metal Menagerie should have been posted here instead of on my everyday, everything else blog, but I hadn't created the KS Born Talent blog at the time. So I post a link to it from here instead.

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Princess Harris is not only a Kansas Talent, she's a Kansas Treasure. I don't know if she was born in Kansas, but she lives in Wichita. She has agreed to allow me to use her music for my story and I intend to talk to her about possibly even writing music specifically for it once I get it all put together with artwork and narrative. The video sampler was recorded at a meeting of the Golden Wheat

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Do you like to draw? A few months ago I was going through my pictures when I realized that a series of pictures I took last summer would make into a wonderful children's story. I asked my little sister if she would like to draw the pictures for this and she was enthusiastic and even sent me a picture that she had done a few years ago that I transformed into this...(This is a screen shot, so it

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