I wanna play too! Got more than just a bit behind because of the London trip, but I've tried out several solutions to the still life challenge. I think I'm landing on this one.. It's not finished, (looking for some old fashioned glasses... any hints to where I can find some would be appreciated! :) But; I have a fun and fond memory about still life pictures. If you don't like stories, you may procede to the suggestions - critique section. *lol* Anyways, I was very young when I learned to read. Just 4 years old. And the word that made me crack the code was **Margarine** spelled out on a wooden margarine box. I still remember the exitement when I cracked the code, and understood that I could read. From that moment on, I was unstoppable. I read anything that I could lay my hands on. At home we had lots of art books, and I loved them The thick paper, the smell of the books and the wonderful pictures. All the old masters were there, and there were lots of still life images. In Norwegian we use the German word for still life - **still leben**. Only it's spelled in one word: Stilleben. Now; that was a word that I young reader couldn't quite grasp. I knew I loved the pictures, and I could sorta guess what the name was about, but I still didn't understand it. We Norwegians do the same thing as the Germans; we stick the words together in one word; so I guessed it was a collection of two words. But I put the invisible "dash" in the wrong place. I read the word **stille ben** - which directly translated means "quiet legs". For the life of me, I couldn't understand what those fruit and flower pictures had to do with legs. *grin* Oh well; not a lot of legs here... *lol* Additions; suggestions, critique very welcome. :) Britt

Well for the glasses you can use a Picture you get off the internet and then bring into your favorite paint program and mask the glasses out with a totally black background then what you need to do is greyscale what remains and then bring into The DTE as a Picture and you can do this for the front and the sides and re-assemble the pieces in your scene...?

Type in "glasses" under poser freestuff. There's all kinds to choose from. Nice reading story. I started to read all at once, too, but not that young!

I think I was a bit younger than that when I started to read, and it was by questions and pretty much teaching myself. Been a voracious reader ever since! Great pic, though I think Beethoven could use some smoothing, and the orange is a bit bright.

The illustration on the right page of the book looks very familiar to me for some reason. Where is it from?

The book is a 1857 edition of Peder Paars, written by the Norwegian author Ludwig Holberg, - a 1700's author. The title pages of the book says nothing about who did the illustrations, it just says "with more than 100 illustrations". I tried to dechipher the signatures on the drawings, and got one of them to be "A. Tillendorf". I've never heard of him before, though. :) thank you, foleypro Sounds like something that might work, If I can't find any glasses as of BecSchm suggestion, I'll try your solution. Melansian_Mentat That was the case for me too, I don't think adults even think about teaching that young kids to read. :) To me, the funniest thing to think back to is all the words that I tried to make a meaning out of. Of course a 4 years old doesn't have the capability of understanding all the words he or she is reading.. Thus situations like the "quiet legs" arises.