A fun place for my daughter and I to post artwork and what ever else we wish to share.

Olivia and some really cool guy!

I am going to unleash her on the world one day, then you'll know!

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Olivia is so sweet....

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but the crab is going to need therapy

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Rock n' the A chord!

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A missing 2 year old girl was found!

Hear is a story with an ending we dont hear that often.


SANFORD — Two-year-old Katie Grant is too young to explain why she wandered away from a family picnic, triggering a frantic 12-hour search, but her parents are convinced it had to do with her love of dogs. Katie disappeared from the yard of a Warren home Monday night, apparently following a yellow Lab puppy she had befriended hours earlier, Michelle and Baron Grant said Wednesday as they continued to wind down from their nightmare.

Searchers found the toddler in the woods about a quarter mile away Tuesday morning. She was covered with mosquito bites and scratches, but otherwise OK.

The Grants, interviewed at their home in Sanford, said they struggled to stay calm through their long night.

Michelle Grant, a school bus monitor, said her mother's intuition told her that Katie had to be safe. But her husband feared the worst. "I watch too much TV and have heard of too many kids kidnapped," said Baron Grant, who works as a repairman for Time Warner.

The Grants, including Katie and her sister, Rachel, 8, were on the second day of a visit with Baron Grant's brother Lee when Katie wandered away from the home off Route 90.

About a half dozen adults and as many children had gathered for a cookout, according to the Grants. Katie had played for hours with her uncle's 5-month-old puppy, Madison, and the two had become inseparable.

Michelle Grant said she had started husking corn and her husband had taken over as grill chef when fear struck.

"Somebody said, 'Where's Katie?' " Michelle Grant said, and the search was on. Also missing was the puppy and the Grants' mixed-breed dog, Jack. When Jack reappeared with no sign of Katie, the Grants' sense of panic switched into high gear and they called for help.

Within an hour, 50 volunteers were combing the dense woods that surround the house.

Lt. Patrick Dorian who heads search and rescue operations for the Maine Warden Service, said the rescue teams were called back when darkness fell. Ten search dogs, which work best at night when it is cool, were sent in with their handlers.

As soon as it was light enough Tuesday morning, teams of searchers returned to the woods while two helicopters and an airplane searched from the air.

Neighbors were anxious to join the search. By 7 a.m. Tom and Alice Schultz of Mountain Road and their neighbor, Irene Maxcy, set out into the mile of woods that separates the Schultzes' home from the home where Katie went missing.

The Schultzes raised a family there and know the woods well. "My wife had this intuitive feeling she was back behind our house," Tom Schultz said.

After about 45 minutes, they entered a small clearing and Schultz spotted the head of a yellow Lab perking up and then a pink shirt. Schultz found Katie, asleep on some moss next to a rock, the puppy snuggled up beside her. She was barefoot but had taken off her pants to sleep on. She still wore a shirt and her diaper.

The puppy ran off as the Schultzes and Maxcy approached and Katie woke up. "She rubbed her eyes and put her arms out. I scooped her up," he said.

It was clear that Katie was not seriously hurt. "We asked her what is the name of the dog" and she responded, Schultz said.

Schultz called the Maine Warden Service from a cell phone and returned to his house, he and Katie clutching each other tightly. Katie was transferred to her father's arms and then into a waiting ambulance.

The puppy, Madison, scampered back through the woods and returned home about the time Katie emerged with her rescuers from the woods, Schultz said.

Dorian said young children generally do not wander as far as adults or older children when they get lost in the woods. Usually when it gets dark, they go to sleep and do not move again until daylight.

"They don't have any fear of darkness or a bear or a sense of panic," said Dorian, who said no charges would be filed in connection with Katie's disappearance.

By Wednesday afternoon Katie was back on her feet, although walking with a limp from a cut on her foot. She had not slept well the night before, restless from her insect bites. Her mother said Katie really needed to sleep.

But before heading for bed, Katie pulled out a picture of a dog and showed it to her visitor.

"Bark, bark," she said, a big smile on her face.

Staff Writer Beth Quimby can be contacted at 791-6363

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Junque Revival

Hi everyone, my Friend Jes has opened an online store called Junque Revival ( junquerevival.com ).

It is a great place to buy one of a kind hand made jewelry in Maine.
So please just give it a look and enter the contest on the home page.

You never know what trinkets of sheer delight will catch your eye.

Junque Revival's Grand Opening Contest!!

junquerevival.com

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art , jewelry