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 Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz 
Jun 23  # 51 of 99
Uh... I can't talk to "competitors", Cathy! (Hee-Hee! Thanks a bunch, kiddo!)
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Jun 23  # 52 of 99
Autographed of-course!!! And I shall be your biggest fan, well next to Fannie Flagg's bigest fan:D

You know how you were saying you liked quotes, well I read this one and I thought of you (cause you like quotes), then MamaM (cause she is a true rebel), then KYH (cause he places good ole' common sence over Fed. reg,'s & guidelines:D), and me just cause:rolleyes: at times it is so very true!

It is by Robert Frost: :"And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Isn't that a cool one!!!

By the way check out this web-site and see if the painting you are looking for was done in this style :Cynthia Kelly Paintings I just feel she was the one who was the artist that painted the image you are looking for.

And I will forgive you for being a traitor (State Farm I just can't believe you!) if I do get that autographed copy!!!
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 Posted By: chubbyalaskagriz 
Jun 23  # 53 of 99
I like the Robert Frost lines a lot, Cathy- thanks for sharing!

Thanks also for the link to Cynthia Kelly's work... what a talent she is! I particulularly like her "Grape Study" and "Heaven" watercolors- so lively and LOVELY, too.

Although I love her style- the piece I'm looking for isn't her's... I discovered this just this morning when per your recommendation I googled her and did some looking around... in fact, I may not have expressed this well enough early on, but the piece I'm on the lookout for isn't actually a painting, rather, it's a resin/molded piece to hang on the wall- copied to look an original wood carving or 2-dimensional "relief", measuring a bit over a foot wide, by not quite 2 feet in height- and it's 2-dimensional effects protrude outward from the wall it's hung on by 2 to 4 or 5 inches in some parts, and it's a dark "walnutty" brown in color. I wish I could somehow better convey the memory I have of it in my head... sure would like to find it, but I never will if I can't even describe it well enuf! Dang it, anyway! But, my search continues...
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 Posted By: Cook Chatty Cathy 
Jun 24  # 54 of 99
I think you described it well, I just interpreted it wrong is all, I imagined it sort of as a painting glued to a resin carved board made to look like wood, not as an actual carving. I bet MamaM will come thru for you, plus I will ask my Mom just in case her memory is better that mine. I also found the new web-site for S&H I was wondering if in their business archives they could let you know what the exact product is that you are looking for; of-course you could always track down the culprit in your family that made off with it Ha-Ha! I would give anything just to see some of their old product booklets! I used to save them when I was a very young newly-wed and mother and the budget was so tight & I loved trading them in on stuff it felt like Christmas to me!!! They discontinued them shortly after, what a sad day! Well I didn't mean to digress.....I believe one will show up for you!
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 Posted By: StickyPirate 
Jun 24  # 55 of 99
Best wishes in your new job, Chub. Great to see you here, by the way!

My newest cookbook acquisitions are David Lebovitz's Perfect Scoop and Great Book of Chocolate. Delicious. I'm now obsessed with ice cream.