An Ordinary Girl Trying to be Fabulous: June 2019

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We are getting ready to go on a Journey!

Monarch butterfly
Not the Maryland State burtterfly
But our state butterfly is dull and ugly
looks like a moth.

A few years I visited Pensacola Florida. That's where I learned about The Kindness Rocks Project. People paint and hide rocks. Hoping that someone will find them and it will brighten their day.

So then home to Maryland. Hoping that there was already a Laurel Maryland Rocks. There wasn't and this is how Laurel Maryland Rocks was born.

Laurel Maryland Rocks on Facebook! (shameless plug, like my page)
Laurel Maryland Rocks

Blessings!

I searched Facebook and found Pensacola Rocks! This is a closed group. I think that you will have to have a Facebook account and join to be able to see this page.
Pensacola Rocks

I adore Pineapples!

After that, Frederick and Dundalk Rocks. These are also closed groups so you may have to join?
Frederick Rocks
Dundalk Rocks

Leave a comment below if your city participates in the Kindness Rocks Project! More blogs on the project are in the works and your city might get a shout out!

Something I need to remember!

If your city doesn't have a Kindness Rocks Project. It is so easy to start. Just paint some rocks and hide them. It is also not terribly expensive.

~Buy or find some rocks.
~Please don't steal landscaping rocks from someones home or business.
~A large container of blue or white acrylic paint
~I think those are the only paint colors that come in large containers?
~When you get into buying varying colors. It can get a bit spendy. ~Paint markers and outdoor shellac.

I use Rustoleum the clear and glossy. I like the paint pens from Michael's Craft stores. I cannot remember the brand. I buy most of my project materials from Michael's Craft Stores.

Make sure to write the city they come from on the back. Plus that you hope for them to take a picture and share it.

Without Pensacola Rocks
I would have never learned abou
The Kindness Rocks Project

Be careful where you hide them

~Hiding them in a store may get someone accused of shoplifting.
~You don't want to put them where a lawn mower may pick it up and throw it into a window or something fragile.
~Private property without permission. May get your precious rock thrown away.

In Maryland we are known for our blue crabs.

The drawback to painting rocks. Is that after you paint them and release them into the world. You may never find out what happened to them. I have painted and hid about twenty. I only know what happened to one. A few of them weren't in the hiding places when I returned. So I hope that they were picked up.

Because YOU are!

Still hoping that this will catch on. In Laurel Maryland. So far I am the only one that I know of. If you're also out there. Let me know in the comments

A few more close ups of rocks that I painted for this trip. I am sincerely grateful to Pensacola Rocks and the Kindness Rocks Project. Painting rocks is wonderful therapy.