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Thursday: am - pm. Gradually, the antiques booths closed as consumer tastes changed. Over the years, the business has evolved. Shelton, a Texan by birth, came to Winnfield in a roundabout but not unusual way. In the s, she attended the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in studio art. She planned to paint and sell her work on street corners in Austin, but a skiing trip to Winter Park in Colorado with a girlfriend in January changed her plans and life.

There she met a college boy from Winnfield. Obviously smitten, she transferred that summer to Louisiana Tech in Ruston, and in November, they married. She later transferred to what is now the University of Louisiana at Monroe where she majored in art education with a minor in English. Rather than trying to hawk paintings on the corners of Winnfield, she took a job in teaching art in the Winn Parish public school system, a position she held until she retired in Although she is continuing with this genre, more landscapes and cityscapes from her travels are broadening her portfolio.

There is a business side to this, however. Another one is planned for Machu Picchu, Peru, in April Shelton also has a little fun with her colored pencil drawings called Riddle Pictures. In essence, Riddle Pictures are visual puns. In Alligator Shoes, for example, we see an alligator and a pile of shoes. Others, such as Turtle Soup and Tiger Bait, are wordless images, leaving viewers to get the joke.