Absolutely fell in love with the song and the animation in this video “The Lion – Benjamin Scheuer/Escapist Papers” Awesome job!!!
have a wonderful smiling day :)
Nat
Nat
Inspirational Video
“If not now, then when? If not me, then who?”
I stumbled over this inspiring TED-Talk by Mick Ebeling. He built an amazing team to make it possible for the from head to toe paralyzed graffiti artist TEMPT1 to draw again.
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Amazing ! Mick Ebeling founded Not Impossible Labs, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems.
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Leonie
Very inspiring TED Lecture. Thanks for sharing.
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petyvic
Reallly amazing! Will share, if it is possible, TFS!
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Kathy P
Awesome!
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mjmarmo
So cool!
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Ann
Thank you
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Sue Clarke
Wow. Just wonderful and the fact that they did not make money from it is stunning.
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Wynn H
Thank you, Nat! What an inspiration.
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Kathy Gledsdale
How inspiring and wonderful
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SusanJane
I can totally rely on you to find the best of TED. These people are just amazing. So friggin talented. Technology and ideas are not the sole providence of the rich and powerful.
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Carmen Lucero
Thanks for sharing, Nath; truly amazing!!
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Life Drawing at the Book Club
I loved this video by Wriggles & Robbins – so much fun to see the drawings from different angles and also come to live.
Attention: This 1 minute video contains nude-drawings. If you have a problem with this, you might be better off looking at something else 
. Don’t email me to complain, don’t visit my blog anymore because I might post things like this again and I really don’t care if you have a problem with this and for sure do not let your kids watch this if it is a problem for you!
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Hope you like it as much as I do.
Have a gorgeous day
hugs
Nat
Related Posts:
- Thank you Mr PearCabbage Or…You made an impact on my life (nathaliesstudio.com)
- You can see beauty in many things! (nathaliesstudio.com)
- Go out and start creating or…Life is short (nathaliesstudio.com)
Nat
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nydiart
Loved the video! It was coooool!
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Heidi
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
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Su Roberts
Brilliant – very clever idea – loved it lol Susiesu xx
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ruthie
Show videos of this quarlity whenever you can! I will watch them all………..
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Nannette
Very cool video! I’d love to draw like that too, but I am my own kind of artist!
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mjmarmo
How cool!!!
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sylvia
Thanks for sharing! I LOVE your disclaimer though, I had to LOL when I read it ;))
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Kathy P
Oh, to be able to draw like that…….truly great art! Thanks for sharing!
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Donna
Awesome video, thanks for sharing it!
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Jean_H
Okay, that was just too cool! TFS
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GISELE
Beautiful and Fantastic!!
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Sue Clarke
Wow…the woman just dances before us…like Michelle said…like a flip book (which I’ve always loved).
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Gunvor
What a great video! I loved it! Thanks for sharing.
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Michelle Guest
I love how the drawings came alive like an old fashioned flip book…very cool! Thanks for sharing…
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Jennifer U.
Super cool — even understanding the concept of how they morphed the different drawing angles together, the result still defies logic. Thanks for sharing.
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Wanda
Hi Nathalie, what a great great video! It iis as much art as are the artists painting!
Greatings, Wanda
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Sew Cool …or… Black Books Favorite Place Music Video
One of the coolest and most inspring music videos I have seen in a while using
10 000 photos
1 km of thread
350 reels of thread
73 000 embroidery stitches
6 kg of scraps of fabric
100 needles and sewing pins
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Makes me want to get my sewing stuff out and add some of it on a mixed media project.
Do you know any inspiring music videos? Link me up :)
Have a gorgeous day
Nat
Nat
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cal8007
Great video, especially since they used my favorite brand of thread!
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lacyquilter
Loved the video. You’re right, now I wanna play with fabric and thread!
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samara
I LOVE this Natalie! I tried to post it to facebook, but it doesn’t have a share for FB. Of course, I always give credit where credit is due (it was my sneaky way of sending people back to your site) but I did that with THE WHATEVERS anyway! Thanks for your comment!!! (I added the original pic this morning…I had forgotten to do that!) Now I just have to catch up on the other 7. lol and yes, gosh…this person/band/collection of people should go on “America’s got Talent” or UK/Canada/World equivalent!
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Helen P
Superb
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Nurse Ratchet
That is a whole lotta sewing supplies!!!! Fab,tx Nat!!
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therez
Such a colourful video. I can’t even imagine how long it must have taken to pull it all together. Thanks for sharing.
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Kathy P
Awesome vid….love the colors and use of so many textiles!!!
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Sandy Fisher
WOW
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mjmarmo
Wow – that is so cool. I do not know of any good videos.
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Sue Clarke
I especially like when the needles get threaded (so much quicker than I could ever do them).
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Sue Molofsky Schultheis
I tried to send you some great musical videos on your fb page but just wouldnt take. so here are the YouTube titles and hopefully you can find them there. You might have 3 fb msgs from me or none. Not sure what the issue was but hope you enjoy these:
Where In the Hell is Matt 2012
Romancing the Wind – Ray Bethel
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Thank you Mr PearCabbage Or…You made an impact on my life
I came across this fun and inspiring video by Drew Dudley on TED and I wanted to share it with you. Thank you Drew- you made an impact with this speech!
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Wow! And so when I watched this video I started thinking about all the people who handed me a huge lollipop and made a big impact on my life and might not even know it and I will try to get in touch with them and say thank you:
- the elementary school teacher “Herr Birnkraut” literally translated into “Mr PearCabbage” who called me Little Dracula Teeth (because I had some temper problems in elementary school – ehem) and sent unbeknownst to me my short story of 10 pages (double ehem..I was NEVER really able to say things in just a few words- LOL) to an Elementary Writing Competition because he believed that I would become a writer just as I wanted to be,
- the wonderful family of Alice and herself inviting me, a stranger from Germany, to a Shabbat Dinner after my workshops in Israel, one of the most beautiful and touching experiences I have ever made in my entire life, I have a hard time expressing this!
- the friend of a friend I met at a party who told me he was 20 years a lawyer and then decided he hated it and became a high school teacher, and who made my brain go “huh- you can do that?” which lead me years later into quitting my paralegal job to become a full-time Artist
BTW – I tried to find Herr Birnkraut with no luck but I know that he would have laughed at the translation of his name – he was and hopefully still is a very very funny guy.
Do you have a person that might not know that they had a big influence on your life or changed you and might not even know it?
huge hugs
Nat
Nat
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Sue Clarke
Just look at that cute younger Natalie next to Mr. Pear Cabbage.
I had a math teacher in High School who had an effect on me later…he always told us that we could do “hard” math if we thought we could and not to be intimidated by it. Just keep working on it until you get it (oh and ask for help).
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nathalie-kalbach
“Lots of moments when friends know just what to say (or not say) that makes the difficult situation a little less difficult.” – so true Sue!
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micki
OMG, my Art teacher in Germany…. Herr Schulz. He would always start each project with a wonderful story. Like when we had to use pen and ink to draw Medussa’s head with all the snakes (kind of like doing a Zentangle today) he told us the story of Medussa. Everyone loved his class.
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nathalie-kalbach
That sounds like such a fun teacher, Micki…and mmmh – Medussa – such a fun project!
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Miri
Nat, you touched me by this post. I am glad you had such a good time in Israel!! It made me think about people that made a big impact on my life too. Thank you. Miri
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In The Fall…or Be the Change You Want to See
I stumbled across this video by Steve Cutts, which is funny and sad at the same time- and I love the message!
Attention: This video contains cruel comic movie elements (I don’t really think…so …but I wanna be on the safe side here) …if you have a problem with cruelty in Bugs Bunny Cartoons you might be better off looking at something else . Don’t email me to complain if you think this is the worst thing someone ever has done to you, just don’t visit my blog anymore because I might post things like this again …
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Wishing you wonderful fall day…eh – I mean as in the season “fall” not as in the movie “fall” meaning ;)
huge hugs
nat
Nat
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Carolyn Dube
What a fun video and I hope you post more things like this!
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nathalie-kalbach
I have more in the sleeves, as we Germans say ;)
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Jessica Sporn
Thank you for sharing that video. I have a few people I am going to forward it to. Sadly, we need the reminder often to enjoy the moment.
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Deborah Pierro
Very cute, funny, and clever–except for the guy going splat on the concrete.
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nathalie-kalbach
I know- I wish it ended just when he was smiling for the rest of the fall
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Sue Clarke
I love the smile on his face as he realizes that he should really enjoy the last few seconds of his life. Now just to be able to remember this every day. Funny (and sad) how often we need these reminders. TFS Nat.
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Anne Porretta
This play on words is a brief but funny reminder to enjoy the “fall” — and the journey before the fall as life goes by so quickly. Thanks for posting, Nat!
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mjmarmo
So true – time is just flying by. Enjoying fall here as well!
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Jenny Palmer
Hey Nat that was so cool loved him just crusin at the “end”
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Kirsten Alicia
That was great!! Happy Fall day to you too.
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Birgit Kunte
Genial, danke fürs zeigen. Genau dieses Video sollte man sich jeden Morgen ansehen, wenn man mit seiner Arbeit unzufrieden ist! Super, liebe Grüße Birgit
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nathalie-kalbach
Stimmt! Drück Dich! Nat
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Life is Splashing Awesome
As you know I love watching inspirational videos and I love to share them with you. I found this one by Neil Pasricha which so so so impressed me! Love the talk – and love the humor and the message- watch it.
So this talk made me think and I decided – it was a day in September, when I watched it, that I would no matter what look at the next day with open eyes and take close photos along the day of things that made me happy. Here are the photos in the order the awesomeness happened this day. Apparently a lot of food makes me happy- LOL- but see yourself ;)
Pretty awesome day I must say :)
Why don’t you try this too- and if you do- link me up- I would love to see your awesome day !!!
Have an awesome day filled with 3A’s
Nat
Nat
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Jean Marmo
Wonderful idea and photos!
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Madeline Rains
Thanks, again, for the awesome inspiration. : )
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Cat
Thanks for sharing that video, very inspriatiional!
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Lisa Flaherty
Thank you for this, Nat! Just what I needed this morning as I got out of bed thinking about what is NOT awesome! Lol!
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Sue Clarke
Wonderful video and I really like that you post these. There are so many inspiring videos on line and I really don’t want to go through tons of them to find the “‘good ones” but I am never disappointed in the ones that you point out…so thanks from the bottom of my heart Nat<3
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Martha Richardson
Love this blog post…thanks for sharing such inspiration!
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Regain your creative confidence
“Don’t divide people into creative and non creative …and touch the Snake!”
I stumbled across this speech by David Kelley – it is a bit long, but I really loved the message.
It also reminded me on a blog post I did back in 2010- and I would like to repost it in connection with this video:
Art in School – originally posted August 3rd, 2010
A couple of days ago on my walk to work I suddenly remembered one of my former art teachers. It was a weird flashback – I totally forgot the name of the teacher- all I remember is that he just finished art school and he was this bohemian guy…black jeans, black shirt, black thick framed glasses, some schal around his neck, black hair and pale. I was 15 – so it was 1988 and as far as I remember I liked art lessons in school…but it wasn’t really too thrilling. Most of the times we would look at paintings of old masters and think about what the artist wanted to tell you with this painting or we would learn other theory stuff.
Then there was this art teacher…we all were totally in Love with him. He was so fun.We were allowed to actually walk around in class and talk to each other while trying all kinds of mediums and tools and actually do stuff. One day he brought in a camera and took portrait photos of us and then a couple of weeks later he came in with several projectors and we all projected our own slide onto the wall and started painting in chalk our own portrait. I remember my portrait had a big shadow on one side of the face as the lightning for the photos wasn’t that good and I was really really sad…he came and said “don’t worry…just paint something else into your face- ask your inner self what you see in that shadow” and I painted a tree growing out of my face. I loved this painting so much and I was soo proud of myself. One day he came in with big tubes of Acrylic Paint and let us paint whatever we wanted – forms over and over on big rolls of paper. I painted eyes over and over and then I picked an area which I liked the most and cut it out. I had fun while doing them- I felt free and happy. I can’t find the chalk painting- I don’t know where I put it after moving several times- but while looking for it …I found the eye piece….I’m sure some of you think it is ugly…I don’t care…LOL – I still love it…it has memories…happy memories!
He was only there for a semester …he gave me confidence that I was talented and he had me find fun in art. When he was gone we were all sad but I looked forward to our new teacher and the lessons. The first lesson came and we were supposed to draw our eraser with a pencil – I did. The art teacher looked at my drawing and said ” you have no talent for art” ….and I was so disappointed but I believed it and I was done….I never felt free and happy with art again….until many years later….I just thought I was not the artsy type of person and I had no talent at all. I forgot that I had fun with paint the semester before. When I look at the eye painting…I see that my Love for paint has been there all the time. How fun that I found it again just now.
What I want you to tell with this story? Don’t get discouraged too easily by what other people say or in comparing yourself with others…the most important thing is that YOU have fun in what you do and how you do it. All the rest…is unimportant! If YOU think you are an artist… YOU are! If YOU think you are creative …YOU are! Don’t let others dictate on how you feel about your creative outlet! Just be!
I might add: TOUCH THE SNAKE!
Nat
Nat
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Jessica Sporn
what a wonderful video. Thank you for sharing it.
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Jenny Palmer
Thanks Nat
I have had 2 great teachers but they were in my adult life when my first 2 kids were babies I studied dressmaking printing spinning and both those teachers were only there for a short time as other staff members made life hard for them as they were not conventional
they were brillant to this day they still encourage me with memories of them and of what I did while I learnt under them but as soon as they left and the other teachers took over the classes the negativity was back.
I have noticed in my life anyway that creativity created jealousy and I cannot understand why people are like that[I cant draw or paint so I will tell you that you cant]
It happened to me and now I am just getting my creativity backletting myself heal and find just how much art means to me.
I love your “eyes” and snakes are so soft to touch and so exciting to hold
Have a great day
Jenny
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Sue Clarke
Funny how you used wonderful and bright colors as early as the eye painting.
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Milagros
Efectivamente tienes toda la razón, solo hay que hacer caso de tu voz interior.
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Janet
Oh No my dear Nat! I think your eye painting is fantastic! It Looks like you had fun! And Shame on your art teacher who said you had no talent. That would crush a child for sure. Did you ever search out your bohemian art teacher again? Wouldn’t that be interesting to know how many lives he touched? And how many artists he encouraged? Good for you to follow your dreams anyways!
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mjmarmo
This is perfect!! I have a twin sister and a mom who got all the artistic genes!! For years I compared myself and led myself to believe I was not artistic. i did scrapbook but that appealed more to my math and at side. Well, guess what – I have stated doing mixed media collages and while they might not be as artistic as my sister’s, I like and them and am having fun. I just used that quote on a journal page! Thanks for your inspiration!
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(Re)touching Lives Through Photos
The following video by Becci Manson made me tear up. Photos are dear to my heart. I just had this conversation with my grand-aunt Waltraud who couldn’t understand why I would redo a new photo album for my grand-aunt Margot, who just recently had to move to an elderly home. “She doesn’t care about those old photos”. I said “Yes she does, she actually asked for them!” Looking at those old photos was a big part of my visits with my aunt Margot – it is one of my fondest childhood memories. I can totally understand that for aunt Margot after being taken away from her home, those photos will give her a feeling of home and consolation.
But listen and see yourself how Becci talks about how she, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues recruited online, helped to restore memories after the Tsunami in Japan.
I am touched by the willingness of Becci Manson and other volunteers to help with their skills- it amazes me and makes me remember that help, consolation and hope can have many faces! Thank you Becci Manson and the volunteers for this reminder!
“[Photos are] our memory-keepers and our histories, the last thing we would grab [in a crisis], and the first thing you’d go back to look for.” (Becci Manson)
Nat
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Sue Clarke
I always say that after my son, hubby and dog…I would grab my scrapbooks (if my house were on fire). Maybe I should just grab the computer though…it’s lighter and has most of the photos on it.
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Martha Richardson
OH I so agree Nat!My grandfather on my Dad’s side was a professional photographer and every once in awhile we are able to locate one of the postcards created from his work. I love that you are redoing your Aunt’s album ;)
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mjmarmo
What a wonderful thing! Those old photos are treasures to be cherished.
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Pearl Maple
Nat thank you for sharing
Such a beautiful message of how we can use our skills to make good
And how important our photos are, today folks take 100s of pics in a day, for those of us who have lost everything in a war or disaster, every image is precious
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Nathalie,
Hello from Scotland!
I’m so glad that you like our video for “The Lion.” The song is part of a show called “THE BRIDGE” that I’m performing every evening from July 31-August 26th 2013, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival here in Scotland.
Details and tickets on my website.
All my very best wishes,
Benjamin Scheuer
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Love, Love, LOVE!!!!!! The song, the story, the animation!! I have an almost unhealthy love of cardboard, and this is SPECTACULAR!!!
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I so loved this. Thank you for sharing.
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fabulous Nat. the whole cycle of animation is wonderful and so clever
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All day i will be repeating than tune (on my head) Great details worked with scissors and cardstock!…TFP
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Donna
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Fabulous video and now I have a great little tune in my head and a smile upon my face.
Thank you,
Donna
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I especially like that most of it appears to be made out of cardboard.
Clever song and story.
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Mary Werner
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WOW that was a real treat! Meaningful, clever, happy endings exists when you write them yourself with intention. Thanks so much for sharing this.
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How touching!! Amazing work!
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Mwah…..wonderful way to start my day!!!
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