This month we received one entry for Art and Puzzle Day. Thank you so much to Robbie Cheadle for her picture of a lion. If you enjoyed this picture and her haiku, you definitely should read her book, Lion Scream. I read it when it first came out, but didn’t leave a review, so I’ve checked it out again. It’s worth reading more than once, but have some tissues nearby.
King of all creatures
Rests amid nature's bounty
Sharp eyes seeking prey
Step By Step Process to Create This Painting.
Robbie Cheadle has gifted us with an insider view to how she created this magnificent painting step by step. Her post is a must read.
Jigsaw Puzzle
Biography Robbie Cheadle
Award-winning, bestselling author, Robbie Cheadle, has published thirteen children’s book and three poetry books. Her work has also appeared in poetry and short story anthologies. Robbie also has two novels published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name. The ten Sir Chocolate children’s picture books, co-authored by Robbie and Michael Cheadle, are written in sweet, short rhymes which are easy for young children to follow and are illustrated with pictures of delicious cakes and cake decorations. Each book also includes simple recipes or biscuit art directions which children can make under adult supervision. Robbie’s blog includes recipes, fondant and cake artwork, poetry, and book reviews. https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/
Robbie Cheadle also has a degree in Accounting Science and is employed as an accountant.
- Roberta has short stories, non-fiction, and poems in several anthologies. Here are some of them:
- She has two published novels:
- Through the Nethergate, a historical supernatural fantasy; and
- A Ghost and His Gold, a historical paranormal novel set in South Africa. The following is my review on Amazon:
Follow Robbie Cheadle at:
- Website https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/
- Blog https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/
- Twitter https://twitter.com/bakeandwrite
- YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVyFo_OJLPqFa9ZhHnCfHUA
- Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15584446.Robbie_Cheadle
Purchase links:
- TSL Publications (paperbacks) https://tslbooks.uk/robbie-cheadle/
- Lulu.com (paperbacks and ebooks https://www.lulu.com/search/?adult_audience_rating=00&contributor=Robbie+Cheadle&page=1&pageSize=10
- Amazon US (paperbacks) https://www.amazon.com/Robbie-Cheadle/e/B01N9J62GQ
- Amazon UK (paperbacks) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robbie-Cheadle/e/B01N9J62GQ
Attendance
- Bookplaces
- Ephemeral Encounters
- Esther Chilton
- Keep It Alive
- Raj
- Retirementally Challenged
- Tanka Tuesday
- Times and Tides of a Beach Writer
- willowdot
- Writer Ravenclaw
Announcements
There are only two art and puzzle days this year on Story Chat. Remember that your submission can be an unpublished photograph.
Story Chat Vol. II
Story Chat Volume II Book Blog Tour Schedule
- Colleen Chesebro – November 24, 2024 (US) Thanks for reviewing on Amazon.
- Gloria – November 29 (UK)
- Robbie & Michael – November 30 (SA)
- Diana – December 1 (US)
- Doug – December 2 (AU) December 1 (US, UK, SA) Thanks for reviewing on Amazon.
- Cathy – December 4 (UK) Thanks for reviewing on Amazon.
- Amanda – December 9 (AU) December 8 (US, UK, SA)
- Dan– December 11 (US)
- Philip – December 14 (UK)
- Cindy Georgekas – December 16 (US)
- Esther Chilton – January 30 (UK ) Thanks for reviewing on Amazon.
- D. L. Finn – February 4 (US) Thanks for reviewing on Amazon.
- Yvette – February 5 (US) Thanks for reviewing on Amazon.
- Hugh – January 27 (UK)
cLICK TO READ IT ON KINDLE OR ORDER IT IN PAPERBACK HERE.
The SC page is now published with submission guidelines, but you can pick your dates for short stories now by emailing me at alwayswrite01@gmail.com or leaving a comment on this post.
Story Chat: Online Literary Conversations
Our video from Volume I is still up and getting views. My goal was 100 views, and we’re over that now! Yay!
Lots of love and hugs! Happy blogging! xxxxx
Marsha Ingrao Always Write 
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LOVE the lion.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Robbie’s animal art is special.
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I agree 100%. She has quite a talent. 🙂 xxx
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xxx
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Wow! This painting is amazing. There is no end to Robbie’s talents.
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You know it, Darlene. Isn’t she amazing. And she still has time for family and friends, works, and gives so much to the blogging community, writes so many books, creates so many fondant characters, and on and on – yes paints and travels. I’m not sure she is human if you want to know the truth. 🙂 xxx
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I’ve wondered that myself at times. ❤️❤️
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😍😍😍
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What an impressive painting of the king of the jungle, Robbie. I saw this post before and probably was on my phone and I couldn’t comment on it. Great poem to go with it. We did jigsaw puzzles during Covid, but not anymore. It’s a cool feature to create a puzzle from art.
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This is a fun one to do, too. I love the digital puzzles. They are fast. With my size screen, I can only get down to 250 pieces or they are too small to see them. They only take me an hour or so depending on the puzzle. Plenty of time for other things,
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[…] Marsha Ingrao posted my acrylic painting of Lion Amid Flowers for her Story Chat Digest: Art and Puzzle Day here: https://alwayswrite.blog/2025/04/22/story-chat-digest-art-and-puzzle-day-1/ […]
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Wow, Impressive jig saw photo! Love the haiku too. Sorry to miss this earlier, Marsha!
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No worries! 🙂 xxx
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[…] I published them. Later, it occurred to me that maybe the poem was for this week. You can read it here. Sadly, that was the only Earth Day entry sent in. Next month, we are back on track with no topic […]
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I have yet to see any of Robbie’s nature artwork I didn’t love. No exception here.
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Amen to that statement, Jacqui!
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HI Marsha, thank you for this wonderful post. The puzzle is such a wonderful idea.
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Thanks, Robbie. 🙂
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I love Robbie’s artwork. It’s as amazing as her beautiful poem. What a talented lady she is. Thanks for sharing
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She is amazing as you are, too!
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Thank you dear friend
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You’re welcome. 🙂 xxx
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💞💞💞
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Thank you, Sadje
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Most welcome my friend
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I did not know you could do jigsaws on the computer! I like the way it tells you for sure if you have the right piece, real jigsaws don’t. Thanks Robbie. I’ll have a another go after dinner!
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Fun! I like that, too. Another trick is when you first open it, if you click on the picture at the top, you can do the border pieces first. The rest of them disappear until you finish the border.
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That’s a handy hint as I am still working on the border and thought I must have dropped a couple of edge pieces on the floor -just can’t see them!
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🙂 They might be under one of the other pieces.
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Yup, you were right, hidden. Now to tackle the middle pieces!
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Have fun! xxxx
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Hi Janet, the jigsaw is all Marsha. I didn’t know about this feature either, but I think its very cool.
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Yep, that’s my kind of talent – steal someone’s photo and chop it into pieces with the push of a button. 🙂
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Haha, you are so funny.
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🙂 on rare occasions
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Robbie is a yrue polymath 💜💜💜
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What a great word, polymath. It fits her perfectly.
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Thank you, Willow. You are very kind
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I am right too 💜💜💜
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Hugs
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Amazing painting Robbie you are so talented 💞💞
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Indeed, she is! And she has a story to tell, and she tells it well. 🙂 xxxxxxxxx
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yes indeed it does 💜
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I’m delighted you like this painting, Willow. I like this fierce looking king of the beasts.
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Its so beautiful 💜💜
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Lions are very stately. This was an amazing photograph I took in January at a game reserve.
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looking very majestic !
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Such a beautiful painting! I love Robbie’s poem also. I’ve never seen one of these puzzles. How does it work?
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You click on the link. It takes you to a website that has thousands of puzzles. This link takes you right to the puzzle, but if you go to the main site, you have a choice of playing one of theirs or uploading one of your own pictures. I play about one a day and have for at least a year without running out of options. They are limited to the size of my computer, so about the most pieces I can do is 250, but you have the choice of number of pieces and background. Just play around with it and have fun! 🙂 xxxxx Thanks for reading and commenting.
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I’m going to try a puzzle Marsha. Thank. You
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Yay! 🙂 You can change the number of pieces.
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Thank you, Kay, for your generous comment.
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You’re welcome Robbie. I want to tell you about something funny that’s been happening on my Facebook account. The algorhthym must have noticed that I like animals. I’m getting posts from zoos and wildlife organizations! My favorite animal is the gorilla. Last night I watched several videos about a gorilla giving birth and how loving she was to her new baby. A young gorilla came over to the mom and kissed the baby. I love it! 🥰
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Hi Kay, primates are very devoted to their babies. Sometimes, the rangers have to remove a dead baby from the arms of the mother as she will carried it about for weeks in grief at a loss. The same thing happens to me with FB. I get loads of reels of animals.
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I love to watch the reels of animals. I get so hooked when someone rescues a little kitten or dog.
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They do draw you in.
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Yes!
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Robbie’s painting is fabulous. So much talent!
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She is amazing. She also has amazing wildlife. The other think I love about Robbie’s creativity is that she is using her art to make a statement about how precious these animals are to our world, and how we endanger them with our greed and use of their habitat. I know that weighs on her constantly.
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Thank you, Marsha. I love that you understand the motivation behind my art and wildlife creativity
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My heart feels your passion.
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I’m glad
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Thank you, Janis. I appreciate your comment
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Excellent painting. Nice Haiku.
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Thank you, Raj. Robbie has an extraordinary amount of talent.
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Most welcome Marsha 😊.
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You are very kind, Marsha
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Thank you. I’m delighted you enjoyed them.
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What a stunning painting. Robbie is amazing!!
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Robbie is amazing. She has a great poem in her new book, Small Treasures about painting that gives insight into her process.
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Robbie is amazing. I don’t know how she does it all, but I’m glad she does and shares it all with us.
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Me too!!!!!
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I’m so pleased you enjoyed that poem, Marsha.
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I’m delighted you like this painting, Colleen. Marsha is so clever to make it into a puzzle.
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I had to go back to the post! I missed the cool online puzzle. How fabulous!
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I thought it was pretty clever.
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PS, I have a new idea and I’m going to email you about it.
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Yes! I love new ideas.
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I’m doing it now.
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💜 🥳
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Hope you enjoyed it. 🙂
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That’s brilliant! How did you create the puzzle?
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There’s a link on the home page that allows you to do it. Then you can embed the link to your creation on your blog or social media.
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It’s so simple to do. The fun is putting it back together.
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Yes, the same as any puzzle.
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Robbie is so talented.
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Yes, she is!
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🤗🤗
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Thank you for your kind comment, Maggie
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You are so welcome Robbie.
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What a stunning picture and words to accompany it. Robbie is so talented.
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She really is! 🙂
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Hi Esther, thank you for your kind comment.
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Happy blogging. It is a great painting.
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Isn’t it amazing?
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🙂🥰🙂
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Thank you, Diana. I’m so pleased you like the painting.
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🙂
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