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For Cynthia's art journaling based on your postal code:
Being born & raised in Chicago, the streets are based on a grid system. So that is what you see here, my neighborhood. It is complete with the church, two schools, a park, a couple of grocery stores, a parking lot, busy traffic, a bakery, an ice cream shop, a candy store, a banquet hall, my home, my friends' & family homes, a dry cleaners, three taverns, a fast food carry-out, a library, a shopping area, a couple of factories (including one where I had a summer job). And while I had to condense down & eliminate some of the streets, this is pretty realistic as to where shops & buildings are placed. I had visions of adding stitching around the city blocks, but with the stitching, my layout looked too cluttered. :lmao
Wow! This was a lot of work! Very cool and I love the way you compared it to the grid that is Chicago. I agree about the stitches - I didn't add any either - I started to, but it just cluttered it up and took away from the things I wanted to show. Very nice job with your quilt!
 
Awesome page Marilyn ...I can keep looking at it ... there is so much to see ... and what an impressive list of supplies
 
You have so much on your page it is a feast for the eyes. I love all of the buildings you included in your "city" and the skyline across the top is perfect. Nice job.
 
My word, Marilyn !!! your layout must have as many layers as Anne's inchies! Quiet a neighborhood you have created. I'm in awe of this.
 
@marijke @wvsandy @Pups_r_Paps @flowersgal Thank you all. It really makes me smile, and in today's world, I need that... I had thought of keeping track of the layers. It is times like this that I wish Photoshop had an automatic routine to count them. LOL! Maybe I'll look at it again and count them, although I did have a few clipping masks, etc. that I probably shouldn't count. After working on the layout for a few hours yesterday, I noticed my Photoshop was really sluggish. I had been trying out backgrounds, swapping things out, etc. I looked down at the size of my file and it was over 1 gb. OMG! So I deleted out my hidden layers, layers I wasn't going to use. It brought it down to around 700 mb, which is where it stayed. Final layout is 679 mb.

Okay, I finally got curious. # of layers, not counting clipping masks & adjustment layers, the layer count is 146.
 
@Angela Toucan Thanks Angela. I just shared it in an email with my friend who lived in a house that is pictured here, across the street from "HOME" and there is a small element of two girls with their arms around each other. Long friendships, for sure. I'll be interested to see her reaction, as her memories of the neighborhood should be a bit similar to mine.
 
wow this is fantastic such a detailed description of your childhood and such a fantastic collection and use of elements, it looks awesome.
 

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