Did you enter competitions when you were younger?

@AmbiePam (107328)
United States
November 30, 2025 8:56am CST
I was telling @snowy22315 this morning in her discussion that Amyra is raising money for her competition trip in Columbus, Ohio next July. She’s selling her past work in card form. The top picture is from when she entered the photography competition, and you can probably recognize Jesus at the bottom in the painting and on the bottom right drawing. The one you might not recognize until I tell you is Joseph and Mary looking over Jesus in a manger. When I first saw I saw it, I didn’t recognize it was a hand on Mary’s hair (Amyra was 13 when she drew it, so it’s still good for that age). That’s something her art teacher is having work on right now: human appendages (sounds weird). Anyway, this is her past work. She’s still working on this year’s entry. She’s also entering the animation category this time too. She’s really excited about that. Did you enter various competitions when you were in school? I entered one on purpose for writing and then two of my teachers entered my writing in contests without telling me.
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• United States
3h
She's very talented. No, I raised myself and my parents were not supportive or involved in my life so I didn't have time or encouragement for these types of things which I would have loved dearly to have done
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
2h
What would you have liked to get involved in?
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
2h
@LooeyVille You would have been really good at speech and debate, and I’m sure if you played tennis you’d excel at that too.
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• United States
2h
@AmbiePam Tennis Club and Speech & Debate.
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@LadyDuck (488080)
• Italy
3h
Amyra did a good joy considering that she was only 13. I do not remember at all if I ever entered competitions when I was young. I remember we used to draw and write poems in school, but I do not remember if there were competitions.
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
3h
I tried at poetry, but I was never any good, unfortunately.
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
2h
@LadyDuck That’s So cool!
@LadyDuck (488080)
• Italy
2h
@AmbiePam - I remember I was pretty good in drawing and painting.
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@snowy22315 (199358)
• United States
3h
I don't remember ever entering competitions when I was younger. Oh I forgot, I was in debate in High School. It was hilarious though the only interscholastic competition I was in though our team won by one point. I think it was probably because the judge was from our school.
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
2h
Hey, no harm in that!
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@DaddyEvil (162641)
• United States
3h
Those are all very nice, no matter what age she was when she drew them! I hope she wins whatever she enters this year! I can't draw at all. Pretty can but doesn't enter competitions, as far as I know. She's never mentioned it, at least. (After we moved out of our last house, the new owner came over and asked who'd been drawing on her bedroom walls because he wanted to hire her to do some artwork for him. I told him it was Pretty but she said she wasn't interested in selling any artwork.) *shrug*
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
3h
Aw, that’s too bad! I wish she’d do something you could post to Mylot. It’s hard for me to point out anything critical about Amyra’s artwork because I think everything she does is amazing. I try not to be biased, but I totally am.
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@DaddyEvil (162641)
• United States
3h
@AmbiePam I tried to take a picture of a rose she drew but can't get it to show up very well so deleted it. (I'm not seeing very well this morning. I'll try again later when I can see.) I don't blame you. She did an excellent job!
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@AmbiePam (107328)
• United States
3h
@DaddyEvil Ok, I hope you can, but I understand if you can’t.
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