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Janet Berkman
@jannieber.bsky.social
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Retired but not retiring. Montréalaise.

Reader and raconteur. STEM. Genealogy. Noticing. Practicing my French.
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August 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I overheard my spouse announcing to one of our adult offspring that he wants to get a dog. This is after my plea to get a senior cat has been nixed. Hmph.

On the positive side, we are cat sitting this weekend. He may love it. We’ll see.
August 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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June 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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ICAD 15/61. Collage of magazine pages and rough cut swimmers. #friendship #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge
Collage. Background is curved bands of blue. Three bathing women. All magazine sources.
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ICAD 14/61 Woven collage of book and magazine pages, card stock, packing tape. A riff on the prompt. #leopard #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky
Simple weave pattern of beige book page (horizontal) and light brown magazine page (vertical) with dark cardstock inserted to imitate leopard spots. Covered in clear packing tape.
June 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ICAD 13/61 Cardstock and paper. #iridescence #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky
Woven light and dark green cardstock. Silver iridescent snake with red forked tongue tucked into the weave.
June 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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ICAD 12/61 Watercolour and stickers. #twig #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky
Three twigs in watercolour with leaf stickers between them.
June 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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ICAD 11/61 Collage. #dyicad2025 #artchallenge #artsky Not really on prompt #tidepool but it’s the tide.
Collage of brown cliffs, green-blue water, lighter blue sky.
June 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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#GenHour This week's cautionary tale (well, every week's, let's be honest). Know the agency that created records. If you don't understand the context, you won't realize that Ancesty has auto-filled the port of arrival to the US with the name of the INS district office that kept the paperwork.
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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ICAD 10/61. #arrows Brush and fine liner pens, gesso, watercolours. #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge #icad2025
Left half of card is tessellated arrows in two shades of pink, pointing in both directions. Right side is free-form arrows in watercolours pointing right, emerging from the geometric ones on the left.
June 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#ICAD 9/61. #embroidery Water colour, embroidery floss, stickers (and packing tape on the reverse.) #dyicad2025
June 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#ICAD 8/61 collage - in celebration of the sun. #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge
Collage with yellow papers, yellow sundress, yellow rose. Outlining with black ink pen.
June 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Just finished Sebastian Barry’s novel “Old God’s Time” for one of my book clubs, and immediately started it over from the top. Such great prose. #BookSky
Text: OLD GOD'S TIME a novel SEBASTIAN BARRY Booker Prize listed author of DAYS WITHOUT END Image of a beach at sunset/beginning of a storm. Wood chair in the breakers, with a cormorant sitting on one of the uprights.
June 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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#ICAD 7/61. Collage with stickers and pen. #midnight #dyicad2025 #artsky #artchallenge #icadchallenge #creativechallenge
Lead sheet for Thelonius Monk’s ‘Round Midnight. Overlaid with stickers (piano, heart, moon). Hand-lettered text box with “let our love be safe and sound when old midnight comes around”.
June 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Day 6/61 Collage: found images and ink stamped with mesh sponge. #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge #dyicad2025
Words ”pour mieux comprendre le monde”. Image of eyeglass frames with Moroccan turret in one lens, and palm fronds and spices in the other. Small random marks of blue ink stamped with humidifier sponge.
June 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#ICAD Day 5/61 Collage: found images and brush pens. #hydrangea #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge #dyicad2025
Teal green curvaceous vase on background of garden greenery. Hydrangea petals cut from variegated purple paper with purple brush pen markings.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#ICAD Day 4/61 Brush pens, inspired by #zenspirations. #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Horizontal decorative bands, using black fineliner and coloured brush pens.
June 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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#ICAD Day 3/61 Experimenting with watercolour colour pencils and water brush on watercolour paper. #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Sunset on a lake. Watercolour pencils on watercolour paper. Water in three different shades of blue. Sun a mix of red, orange, yellow.
June 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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New journal INTERLACE devoted to mathematics & fiber arts: interlace-journal.org 🧮 #mathart
Interlace home page
Interlace: A Journal of Mathematics and Fiber Arts
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June 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#ICAD! Day 2/61 #spring #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Collage of magazine images (tulips, umbrella, salad of green apples, cucumbers, herbs, bouquet of mixed flowers, word ”printemps”.) On 4”x6” card with blue diagonal strips, gray marks, stamped with gray “rain”
June 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Happy Pride Month! We’re celebrating LGBTQ heroes all month long. Welcome to the Gay of the Day. First up, Alan Turing. Share far and wide 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #lgbtq #Pride #Pridemonth #gay #gayhistory #lgbtqia #GOTD
June 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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My first #ICAD! Day 1/61 #glimmer #IndexCardADay #ICADChallenge
#ArtSky #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge
Found image of B&W locomotive at night, with coloured pencil marks, silver stars and crystals, curly ribbon smoke.
June 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I’m in!
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May 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM