Mabel Molanphy

As I exclaimed to dad­dy my bril­liant idea how to memo­ri­al­ize Mabel’s art works with­out hav­ing to fol­low any of the “oh-so-crafty” ideas I seem to read on the inter­net (pho­to­graph each piece to cre­ate a book; frame a new piece each week; place them in a binder; stick them in a draw­er). Basi­cal­ly, all things I won’t do. I love see­ing my art­work that I did as a child, but I actu­al­ly have more fun see­ing who I was when I did it. THUS, my bril­liant idea: take a sim­ple pho­to of Mabel with each of her art cre­ations, then eas­i­ly, er, dis­pose of the art work. Or send off in an enve­lope to grandma/pa and abuelo/a. That works, right?? 🙂

I real­ly do love all of Mabel’s works, but for me, I much more enjoy her con­cen­tra­tion and how she holds the pen­cils, paper, glue, etc. I’ll have to remem­ber to pho­to­graph those things…in the mean­time, here’s a pic­ture of Mabel’s sheep she made at ECFE. (she used glue on a q‑tip, placed cot­ton balls, then used a black mark­er to draw. There WERE lit­tle sticky eyes, but Mabel pulled them off to adhere to her OWN eyes. If I had­n’t been dri­ving at the time, I would have snapped a picture!!)

Mabel’s Sheep