How eerie is the timing of the block for this week? Although it is easy to see why Ms Brackman chose a block about voting (here in the USA we are four days away from going to the polls) she could not have imagined how we have been all glued to the media watching the devasting photographs of a New York ravaged by the huge storm/hurricane Sandy.
This was a block that we also made for the Civil War block of the week. In that project I made the upper left corner of my "flag" a star block. But for this one, since it is about voting after all, I decided to use the check mark with which a ballot is marked.
I have situated my block adjacent to Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand and thus the location of the Parliament.
In thinking about how I might pose my block to take a photo I first thought to use some of the piles of flyers that my mailbox has been stuffed with these past weeks. But I guess we were super efficient with recycling this week and most of them are all gone.
But I did come up with these two (one had to be rescued from the trash bin and is looking a little curled around the edges). Although I thought I should be showing flyers from both parties I notice that Susan B. Anthony announced that she had voted Republican and that is the two flyers I found. So here I am paying homage to Susan B. Anthony. She was arrested for her illegal vote and never did get to vote a second time as she had died before the law was changed allowing women the vote.
I'm looking forward to not so many flyers in the mailbox after Tuesday!
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Few flyers in the mailbox, fewer robo- and live calls, and the landscape will no longer seem littered with yard signs. But you made a great block - the purple stripe is perfect for this flag!
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