Feb. 9: Dani Duck, PEWE'S WONDERFUL ADVENTURE
Feb. 10: Becky Fyfe
Feb. 11: Marcie Colleen, RAINBOW HUNT
Feb. 12: Mandy Yates, A WORLD WITHOUT COLOR
And now it's my turn. I couldn't find the story that I wrote and illustrated in 7th grade about why turtles got their shells (they were magicians who needed to protect the spells they carried).
But rooting around in my boxes, I found a fair amount of evidence that I was drawing, writing, and making things up:
First Grade Journal
I had issues with my sister:
I made up pets I didn't have:
Santa Claus was my (dyslexic) "boyfried":
Oh, right:
First Publication
My first published work, in my first grade yearbook:
3rd Grade Story
A four page picture book that rhymes, and not very well. On the positive side, it is short (fewer words are better these days), and it has that trendy dark/existential ending.
Creating Board Games
My sister and I loved making board games. Here is one that we probably made in junior high, THE ACE. It was a convoluted and long game that could side track you into side games:
Some of the side games:
A Cover Publication
By junior high, I was immersed in yearbook, and this was the cover I did for my 8th grade yearbook:
Around that same time, I did this pencil drawing:
So what kind of work would you find if you looked through your old boxes?
Be sure to check out Monday's blog hopper, Rachel Elizabeth Cole. Thanks for joining me on a trip down memory lane.
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Sylvia, Love the fluffy bright snowman with buttons blacker than night. Great post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Teresa.
DeleteThese really made me smile. I was working on the school yearbook in junior high too. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Becky!
DeleteOh my word--I laughed out loud at the Santa boyfriend story! But that game? I'd totally play that. :-)
ReplyDeleteI always thought I was a good speller, but looking back at those entries, I see that I was pretty atrocious.
DeleteYou've always had neat handwriting! Wow!
ReplyDeleteI'm dying of laughter here...about your dyslexic boyfriend and "oh, right"...hahaha!
This has to be my favorite Sylvia post ever! :D
Thanks, Teresa. That was a fun post to write. As my dyslexic "boyfried" would say, aH aH aH
DeleteThey are cute stories and you even had a bit of a zentangle thing going on back then you trend setter. That eagle is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Catherine. My daughter saw that eagle and said to me, "What happened to you?" Ha ha.
DeleteThank you, Sylvia, for sharing these treasured times in your life :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Charlotte.
DeleteThese are absolutely precious, Sylvia! Thank you so much for sharing them!
ReplyDeleteAww. Thank YOU for stopping by.
DeleteYou were born to write and illustrate, Sylvia! I am so impressed by your middle school drawings. I think it is great that you've kept all the writings and drawings all these years. It was fun going through memory lane with you. I wish I had mines, but I remember my 5th grade teacher keeping all my writing projects.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Romelle. I bet you had some great stories.
DeleteSylvia, This is a great post! I literally laughed out loud! Nice to see your sense of humor started long ago. My mom didn't save any of my stuff, so unfortunately, I have no written memories of all of my stories! WAH! Thanks for sharing yours! :)
ReplyDeleteI got my pack rat tendencies from my mom, I guess. Thanks, E!
DeleteI enjoyed reading all of your work so much and was smiling. I especially enjoyed your rhyme about the snowman--really! It is great :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Annina!
DeleteSuch a cool post, Sylvia!! Especially like those snowmen - they have great charisma!
ReplyDeleteAwww,,,thank you Julie.
DeleteHow wonderful to still have all this! Go the boyfried!
ReplyDeleteha ha! thanks, Yvonne.
DeleteOh my gosh Sylvia! I love this. Young Sylvia is quite the character! I would've been your friend for sure back in 1st grade. And I would have wanted to be just like you. I think you have a seed for book for now. I want to know more about this young Sylvia. I want to read more of her journal. it was absolutely hilarious. I like her better than Junie B. Jones and I love Junie B. And I love the evil look on the Sun's face as it's melting the snowman. Such a good post.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Mandy!
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