My Mom decided that having a kiddy tea party would be fun.
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As a dreamy pre-teen, not exactly a collage artist, I’d pore through McCall’s, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen Magazine cutting and pasting fashionable images of hairstyles and clothing into my scrapbook using scissors and LePage’s glue. Little did I know I was learning skills that would last a lifetime, even morphing into the digital age. Now I cut and paste pretty much every day of my life…be it in an email to a friend, a story for Retrospect, or an image for one of our prompts.

Here’s the “before” of our featured image. Notice any difference?

Goodbye and good riddance, crusty rubber-tipped glue bottle!

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100 words/RetroFlash

*Re my title, any guesses?

I looked at the beautiful colors of the needlepoint yarn and sighed. "Maybe I could do that," I thought.
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Looking back at my hobbies as a young girl, I realize how passive and home-bound they were.
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