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The Hidden Arts | Painting, Sketching, Sculpturing

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Embellishing the Ordinary with Beauty

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Bethany Douglass
Apr 23, 2025
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“Requests or demands are softened and take on importance when they are decorated with touches of beauty or humour. At the same time, there is a fulfillment of that which is in danger of begin destroyed by filling out endless tax forms.”

—Edith Schaeffer

I love Edith’s invitation in this chapter to embellish the ordinary paper/work of our lives, whether a…

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