Part of the dinosaur exhibit
Gorgeous garden wedding with the tables in the middle of a pond!
Water sphere
Yellow themed garden
Waiting at the station-silly people!
Mar11
Mar11
Philly Flower Show-127 photos later
We had a nice time at the flower show today. We got to eat at the Reading Terminal Market and utilize the new camera to it’s fullest capacity. I won’t show you all 120+ photos, but here are a few of my favorites:
Brian and me at the entrance to ‘The Legends of Ireland’ Flower show. Mom and Sean were with us and he took this photo. (Um, Di pull your top down in the front there!)
A gorgeous arrangement and silver-what a combo!
Where we ate lunch as viewed from the Convention Center.
Mar10
St Paddy’s Poem
I made these for 6 friends in my tribe (tribe.net) crafting group. I think all 6 may have gotten them by now, so I can share a photo with you. I ‘collaged’ St Paddy’s napkins on green card stock. I found the scroll clip art on the web. I wrote the poem and saved it as a ‘jpeg’ so it would fit inside the scroll. The back has a photo from Ireland with the Celtic design in it. I also used St Paddy’s stickers. I found some raffia to use as a hanger.
The flower show’s theme is Ireland and we are most probably going tomorrow afternoon.
Mar10
Photo hunt-architecture
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This was taken about 1991-92 when we went up to near Penn State for the wedding of Brian’s cousin. Brian’s mom was still with us (she passed on in ’96) and this was a little church behind the cemetery where most of Brian’s maternal relatives rest (including his mom now). Brian believes his mom went to church here, way out in the sticks. I think because of taking this photo, I got an interest in the design and architecture of other churches, thus taking photos of them in my travels. This is such a simple, but beautiful place and I wonder if it’s still standing.
Mar9
Things I made…Friday
Instead of Art trading cards, I worked on this in the last few days:
A Sally Sells Seashells by the Seashore Shadowbox! It was fun to make. I bought the shadowbox at the local Dollar General for about $3 and took out what they had and started from scratch. I had that great scrapbook paper from the same store that resembles waves. The sun is from the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA. (remember my post a few weeks ago?) Moravian tile to be exact. I have tons of seashells too. I made the little bucket out of curved cardboard (it was a little birdhouse), red wire and the stand that came off the birdhouse. I’ll hang it out in the kitchen where this photo was taken.
Cooking for Lent can be challenging. I knew I wanted to make an egg dish for dinner as I had just bought 2 dozen eggs. This was in my great meatless Italian dishes cookbook. It’s a frittata with garlic, red peppers, parmesan, basil (frozen from my garden last year!) and capers. The basil really makes it. We enjoyed it.
Hopefully we’ll be going to the Philly Flower Show on Sunday, the last day.
Have a great weekend!
Mar9
What the hey?
Sean rented a bunch of movies to celebrate his official start of spring break. I said, go ahead and get ‘Borat’ as I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. There was a certain much talked about scene involving nakedness and it was rather lewd-or just plain gross and we must admit, a little comical.
I think the concept of a foreigner coming to the good old USA has been done before (Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams?). This had its funny moments and the critics liked it. Sasha Baron Cohen (I think of the little ice skater all the time when I see his name), is one peculiar fellow. At first when he was making the tv circuits for the movie promo, I thought he was the real deal, that he was like Borat, he was that good. Then I found out he was a British comic who does a number of characters. How he acted and what he said at the awards show (he won a Golden Globe!) was a little disrespectful to everyone listening. I am pretty sure he and his girlfriend mouthed the words F U when the camera came on them at the Academy Awards. Hey Sasha, maybe this is your 15 minutes of fame and do you want to be remembered as a jerk?
Don’t get me wrong, I love British humor-have been a fan of Monty Python’s for ages. I don’t remember any of them acting that way in public and they all kept a pretty low key persona.
The movie was funny-one of the best parts-when he walked into a Christian revival meeting and said he wanted to be saved. He then asked the minister if Jesus loved his brother down to his neighbor who he hated. He said that no one loved his neighbor even ‘Mister’ Jesus.
Mar8
For Becky
I wanted a photo for Becky to show my appreciation for her lovely ‘giveaway’ on her blog. I am really happy with it as you can see.
My hair is just pulled back. I had a photo contest between Sean and Bri and Brian’s won!
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Sean is changing his major to Geography. He can’t handle all the math like Trig that the Earth Science major says he has to take. I’d love for him to do something with graphics/advertising. He use to make the best posters for his projects and many of the teachers asked if they could keep them. I have a feeling that he isn’t finishing ‘switching’ yet.
Mar7
Fleeting scenes of winter
(At least I hope so!)
The birds were having a feast at the feeder today. Their little tummies are big and round-golf ball size. I happened to look out the side window and saw all their little prints in the snow (thanks to Bri who also delivered our dinner). The first shot was taken out the window. There was one bird I am trying to identify-not sure if it was a Baltimore Oriole-but he had a white tummy, the sides of his tummy were reddish-orange and the rest of him was black with some white specks on his wings. Carole/Pea helped me to ID this bird as a Bay breasted warbler! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before:
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Mar6
16 children
On TLC last night the Duggar family special was on about them building their own dream house on 20 acres. 20 acres-so each of the 16 children could have an acre and build a home for themself someday. The dad and the bigger kids did a lot of the work themselves until it got too much and they called in a contractor. But what they did was amazing. Michelle the mom and the only non-J named family member was about to have baby number 16, so they wanted to get it finished.
(The names and ages of the Duggar’s children, and you’ll notice a pattern with their names, are: Joshua, 17; John David, 15; Janna, 15; Jill, 14; Jessa, 12; Jinger, 11; Joseph, 10; Josiah, 9; Joy-Anna, 8; Jeremiah, 6; Jedidiah, 6; Jason, 5; James, 4; Justin, 2; Jackson Levi, 1;Johannah, newborn.)
I think TLC came in and got a designer for them, sponsors, etc. Jim Bob is the dad (why do I think of The Waltons when I hear that name?) and is a real estate person. He must do extremely well. Michelle is the sweetest person. Talk about building a village! They remind me of Mennonites or Mormons, but are Southern Baptists who believe that God opens the womb. The girls wear long dresses and have long hair (mom too). What got me was the family closet. They all store their clothing in one room-bins for ‘dark socks’, etc. Mom has used heavy duty kitchen equipment that is worth $100k that they got for $11k. Mom is also the teacher. I must say all the children are extremely polite. The oldest son narrated the special and did an excellent job.
What have I been doing? Cleaning! I took down my winter snow scene yesterday and replaced it with my glass egg collection. I am having trouble finding Easter stuff. What else is new?
I have a pot of beef stew all set and I have to go mail auction items as tomorrow will be a snowy day-maybe. They say the roads may not get bad. Crossing fingers.
Mar4
Yucky and yummy
So what’s the worst thing that could happen to you that is house related? Not as bad as a fire, something you can clean up. What happened-Sean used too much toilet paper and I went in to use the facility. The water looked low, but I was in a hurry. I went to flush and you guessed it-geyser time! I was in my bare feet at least, but in my good dress slacks. I started yelling-get the plunger. Brian happened to have stepped outside. So Sean went running for the plunger just when the toidy let out a big gurgle and down ‘it’ went! We had water going through the floor into the basement. I had to first clean up the water with paper towels and then went over everything with antibacterial wipes-my poor back! We don’t have a huge bathroom, thank goodness. I have the little rugs to wash-tomorrow.
Bri went to the grocery store with me. He decided to go to the ‘cheaper’ store, which was really crowded. It was late, like 3:30 by that time. I decided to do a pasta salad with cut up turkey ham in it. Bri saw stewed tomatoes and wanted some. When I got home I cooked up the penne and the guys decided they wanted the stewed tomatoes and cut up ham on top of that (Sean doesn’t like mayo much). They loved it! I had what I originally envisioned-penne, ham, with mayo, dill, cheddar cheese and a bit of onion-plus a croissant. Not bad.
Tonight I enjoyed reading the People magazine about the Oscars with Patrick Dempsey and his new twin boys on the cover. So cute.
Tomorrow the snowbaby display in the big living room window is finally coming down and getting replaced with a spring display! I like the idea of switching it out every few months.
Collages & Creative Goodness 