Smiling at the Drawings
Hello everyone,
This is going to be my last hello to you all. I feel bad for doing this but there are many outside and inner forces right now that prevent me from continuing this project. It began as an experimental and social project and I wanted to see how it will go. To my surprise, it was very successful and fun! It was a good experience for me and I’ve learned a few things from doing this.
There are still a lot of requests sitting in my inbox (but I’ve read all of them!), but they will soon be deleted as promised for security reasons. Sorry to those (all 341 of you) that I couldn’t get to. I hope you can find some other way in this world to make you smile and brighten up your day. Explore! Meet new people! There are many things in life that are worth smiling for.
Thanks to everyone who participated, requested, sent back a picture, sent me back letters/drawings, and sent me words of kindness and stories!
Thanks to Hamid again for helping me out and giving the project some exposure. Without him, I wouldn’t have gotten a rumpload of requests!
Thanks to the people who have donated. The donations have helped out in sending out the drawings, so in a way, everyone of you is connected. If you feel that it has gone to waste because of this abrupt end, then by all means, drop me an e-mail to request the donation back. I won’t hold it against you, promise! I actually feel bad about it all!
Thanks to those who gave me advice and words of encouragement when I was feeling doubtful.
An extra thanks to everyone!
Now a gift for you all and to mark the absolute end (so I won’t restart it again) of this project. I will display all of the drawings that were never posted because there weren’t any pictures to pair them with. They won’t be accompanied by a smile, but I hope they can still bring a smile to those that haven’t received one themselves and to those that are in need of a smile. Though I don’t expect any more pictures to be sent to me, if I do receive any, I will remove the drawing from this post and create a new post for it! There are a few drawings missing because I forgot to scan them. Now those are the truly lost smiles.
Now, without further ado, the lost smiles.
