Baren Digest             Monday, 23 September 2002     Volume 20 : Number 1969


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From: "marilynn smih" <marilynnsmih#hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:03:10 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19298] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1956 

I have recieved mor prints for 14a from:
Minna Soraluoma
Gillyn Gato
B Patera
G. Jarvis
A reminder to all I am following all the rules of the regualar Baren 
exchanges.  I have not opened these last packets as I am in the moving 
process and will wait until I can take them over to the studio.  Please 
please remember to include your return postage.  I have one set of prints 
that did not include postage.  I sent a nice note to the individual and that 
person responded on Sept 6, but still I have not recieved the postage.  As I 
recall, and I could not find the rules for the exchanges on Baren, anyone 
who does not send return postage does not recieve prints back until the 
postage is recieved.  Is this correct and if so who on the Baren 
administration do I contact about this if I do not recieve the return 
postage by the first part of October???
Marilynn



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From: "Maria Arango" <maria#mariarango.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:19:32 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19299] Re: Puzzle Print 

Jan, you're in. Please go to the puzzle page and send in your addy. Someone
pointed out that I had a duplicate sign up in there.
http://www.1000woodcuts.com/puzzle/project.html
I have one other participant from Australia, two from Canada, Italy, Ireland
(with alt NY address) and Japan. No problem! I will label the thing "gift",
set the value at zero and cross my fingers.
I might try something along the lines of FedEx Global rather than our USPS,
since I'm still mourning the loss of 4 prints I sent to Scotland through our
usually reliable USPS Global Priority. World participants will spend a bit
more mailing the block back to me and covering postage for the final print
mailing, but those are the only extra expenses.

Also thanks everyone for all the encouraging comments, offers for help,
offers for contributions to my psychiatric care fund, and so on...gosh, they
help a lot so keep'em coming.

The Baren Council has graciously offered to help defray expenses, as have
many of you. Depending on how my money tree behaves this winter, I will or
will not take the offers. Participants will incur in the following expenses:
- - I will cover the mailing of the blocks but expect participants to cover
the return mailing to me. Expense to be incurred around May/June of 2003, so
start saving right now your pennies, or Canadian cents? (gosh, I'm so
ignorant, forgive me) or euros, or lira, or yen.
- - I will cover tubes for the final mailing of prints, but please send
postage or money to cover the mailing back. There will be specific
instructions LATER on this included with your happy little block. [I will
take checks/Int.M.O./Postal M.O., credit cards, PayPal, prints in lieu of
payment, Brazilian coffee, Spanish marzipan and Swiss chocolates. I have a
PayPal account and have successfully received international funds for EBay
payments on my prints with no problem; I know this method has been
criticized in the past, but I stand by PayPal.]
- - Those who can't, can't. We will do our very best to get the prints out to
everyone regardless of financial situation. There are so many generous souls
in this forum that I'm always amazed.

Yes, I will "map" every block. And yes, I will keep a grand plan of the
whole thing. Cutting a replacement block will be pretty difficult but not
impossible. If a block should get block-napped by customs authorities, I
will do my best to replace it.
If a block should get eaten by a rabid raccoon, I will also do my best to
replace it. Don't sweat about messing up your block, please, this is a big
project but it's supposed to be a lot of fun. Just whittle and send! I'm
more worried about getting carried away with the jig-saw!

Happy waiting,
Maria

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Maria Arango
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
maria#mariarango.com
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From: Julio.Rodriguez#walgreens.com
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:31:58 -0500
Subject: [Baren 19300] Re: visiting. down-under... ... 09/22/2002 11:35:47 AM 

Hi Mellissa R-D, had a great time visiting your website, lovely
paintings...Loved "Impressionable" in the woodcut session. The greyhound
paintings hit home, my father past away when I was 10 and my earliest
memories we shared were trips to the Habana Hippodrome(sp?)  to see the dog
races...with the greyhounds chasing the "bunny" around the track.

http://depicture.homestead.com/home.html

Jan Telfer  good news you got in the Baren puzzle....what great
representation all around the world!

thanks...Julio



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From: "marilynn smih" <marilynnsmih#hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:35:57 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19301] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1957 

Sorry I have been out of touch a bit, it has been a wild September.  I am 
unpacking boxes and putting stuff into a storage space and trying to catch 
up with the baren news letters.  Again for all who need it for exchange 14a 
my address is:
Marilynn Smith
PO Box 71
Nahcotta, Wa.
98637
I should have a free week in October to sort and mail these wonderful 
prints, thank heavens.  I am thrilled with each packet as they are arriving.
Carol it is so wonderful to hear your efforts for those marvelous and 
thoughtful firemans prints.  I am honored to have contributed and with this 
move have not had time to find a place to exhibit my set. (I am moving from 
a 3300 sq. foot home to a mobile home on the coast until my little house on 
the bay is finished, whew!!) I am thinking on a holiday in the near future 
and a place here on this peninsula, which has many artists and many 
tourists, I will not let them sit alone unseen, they deserve an audience.
Thank you Georgia, you are so busy showing off these prints and without you 
I would not have joined Baren and I would have missed so very very much. It 
is a wonderful job to help and I look forward to doing more exchanges and 
donating as much time to this group as I can.
Marilynn

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