You may have to enlarge the photo by clicking on it and then looking at the largest image by clicking through the one that comes up-from the right corner-got that? Update-he is on the flower below the tallest flower in the middle.
Went for a walk at Longwood Gardens today and I was surprised by all the flowers still in bloom-and the bees and butterflies. I went for a peaceful walk around the lake there, the opposite direction I went with my friends last time.
A few weeks ago I received a note in the mail inviting me to a baby shower. I hadn’t seen the young man for many years and didn’t know he was married and he and his wife were expecting. I knew I wanted to make something as the couple has a Winnie the Pooh theme. I looked around my stash and found an unpainted frame and made this:
I had a Winnie greeting card and he was holding a snowball-so I found the button border trim and now he is holding a button! It was fun to do and I have a few more little things to include with that Winnie theme. I will mail off the package today even though it’s about an hour or so away as I need to keep the next week open in case I hear back from prospective employers. The shower is on Thursday.
Need to get a flu shot one of these days-maybe today. We need to finish up the outside. I left a few crates outs and they were no where to be seen. I’m wondering if Bri just put them back in the shed and forgot. All I could see is a groundhog pulling them down the gulley-lol.
We are still getting nice weather which is suppose to change later in the week. I can then get the rest of my clothes sorted out.
Have a pleasant week!
Love this website and played with a few of my photos on it last night (need to take a few head on shots).
Corn Maze
Digeress
My weekend job at a Renaissance faire-lol
Sometimes wearing rollers to bed keeps me up all night! (My hands aren’t that big)
Yay, very funny!
And I hope you noticed me winking at you up in the left side bar…here’s another silly one:
Brian and I went to a quaint tavern for lunch called ‘The Whip’.(Their photo slideshow is nice on the website). We had seen it mentioned on a local ‘foodie’ show last night and decided to go. Unfortunately, it was crowded at even 1:45 pm. We were sitting next to a very loud group of ladies. I noticed when their order came before ours, most got the same as me the ham and brie quiche and salad.
Brian got fish and chips.
Yummy, like home cooking from England. As we sat waiting a bit, we started to chat with an older lady and she said to get ‘the pudding’. After lunch, I asked the waitress and she said it was cake-think it was described as ‘sticky cake’-buttery with a caramel sauce and side of vanilla ice cream-really delectable-I have half of it here as Bri only tasted some. Update-from a review its’ called Sticky Toffee Pudding-very cake-like to me.
I had my camera and Bri drove the Cruiser and if I saw something I wanted to photograph, he slowed almost to a halt when he could-thus the cow shot through the windshield. Nice day, but very blustery.
The Whip Tavern is an English pub situated in beautiful Chester County horse country. The drive to get there is an experience in itself no matter what season. Rolling hills, pasture land and then all of a sudden you happen upon The Whip on the corner of N Chatham Rd (Rt 841) and Sprindell Rd which seems in the middle of nowhere.
“Jolly good, this ‘cool interpretation of an old English pub’ will
‘put a smile on your face’ and sate any ‘cravings for bangers and mash’,
‘amazing fish ‘n’ chips’ or ‘fantastic’ lagers and bitters…’pubby and clubby’ ‘treasure’ ” ~Zagat
I did this almost 4 yrs ago to the day with Paint Shop Pro. It’s called ‘Waiting for her Beau’ and that is actress Loretta Young (how thin she was!) I love the purple ‘wash’.She was added to the street scene.
And public….
An Artist Trading card I made featuring the movie ‘Public Enemy’ with James Cagney and Jean Harlow (keeping with the actress/actor theme).
Some of you may know that I am seeking part time employment. I got a call from the lady at TJ M (retail) on Monday to come in and fill out an application which I did today and got to talk about 20 minutes to the manager and her assistant (I believe). Then I got an email about being an ‘event specialist’ (you may cook and/or hand out samples at a grocery store). So I got an email from the recruiter about the second job. It was a little bit of a trip, 6 hours of mostly standing at one time and having to take an 8 hour food safety online course. The pay wasn’t bad, but I told the lady today that if an opening came up in my town or the next one over in Delaware, I may be interested. And taking an 8 hour course like that to cook stuff in a microwave wasn’t appealing to me. I then started to look at a site that provided care for kids to seniors. One job is to take a lady a bit older than me to the doctor or mall because she can’t drive for a couple of days a week. I have to get my application approved and get a background check. I’m using snagajob.com and get email everyday. I know something for me is out there so I can help Bri out. Wish me luck!
~~~Happy Birthday Carole!~~~
It’s really hard to take photos at night, but I hope you enjoy my efforts here.
Here’s a shot of Sean listening to Emma, the tour guide down in Philadelphia last night. We walked about 1.5 miles throughout the darkened streets of the Old City area, something neither of us had done before! Here we are at Dr. Philip Syng Physick’s elegant house and she was telling us about him being the father of surgery and how some gory stuff about waiting for bodies to be disposed. It was rough back then.
Where two thousand people are buried. It looks like a park and has sidewalks. Unfortunately some homeless guys were on the benches. It’s suppose to be really haunted here. I felt a bit weird walking around here. At the far end was the stump left from the ‘Moon tree’. It was grown from a seed that went to the moon and back and planted for the Bicentennial. There is a sapling from it planted now.
Pine Street Cemetery (pretty sure) where Nicholas Cage filmed a scene from the movie ‘National Treasure’.
A quaint home on Pine Street. Not sure what home, but a witch was suppose to reside on this street centuries ago.
A trip to Philly wouldn’t be complete without a visit to The Liberty Bell!
I don’t recall seeing it in this pavilion. We didn’t get to go in any buildings or cemeteries which would have been more interesting. Independence Hall is somewhat shrouded in the front as it goes through renovation
There are still cobblestone streets. Rubber against cobblestone sounds strange
The building where we were suppose to have dinner (grabbed a slice of pizza), but I forgot it closed at 6 pm. It would have been a great place to look around as there were some stores there too.
We did park right next door.
Suppose to be the most haunted street in Philly-Pine Street. Full apparitions were spotted here.
I did see a few pinpoints of light in the two upper window (left and middle) of Carpenter’s Hall. People say they have seen a face in the first window. A few people living here heard footsteps and pounding on the walls.
If you click and enlarge, you can see the lights too.
Awesome statues:
Commander John Barry-Father of the American Navy
and
The Signer-George Clymer-signed both the Constitution and Declaration of Independence
And finally-a graveyard you just don’t see every day-St. Mary’s
Since I had the yard sales and made a little spending moola, I went a little hog wild at the York Rubber stamp and paper show this year. I have ‘always’ wanted the Alice in Wonderland stamp set which was the most expensive thing I bought, but there are 10 rubber stamps in it. I also bought a few unmounted stamps. This one lady said ‘half the price, twice the work’, but I just got some double sided sticky tape for Marilyn Monroe and the vintage lady and stuck them on an acrylic block. No big deal.
I found some ‘Vintage business papers’ (not really vintage, but it will give me that feel); glitter, stamp pads and little embellishments like keys and frames. This one place had stuff like that $3 and under. I loved shopping there. I can’t wait to get to work other than just testing the goods. Watch this blog now!
The butterfly stamp for making jewelry-they used crystals and how gorgeous they are!
The mascot for a company-the lady’s favorite Easter gift as a child.
Gifts for my mom. : ) (These look a bit like her little dawg Kelsey). The glass dog was found at the book and emporium (I haven’t taken photos of what I bought there).
We went on a little day trip like we did last year up to central PA. It was just Brian and me this year. First we went to York (about 64 miles one way) where I did some stash building at the Heirloom rubber stamp and paper show. I felt a bit rushed last year as I had two guys waiting on me, but I was more relaxed this year as Bri didn’t mind waiting. We then went to a book store and emporium in downtown York (which was the first capital of the country). I would have liked to taken a few more shots of the historic buildings there.Here’s a sampling in the area of the book store.
The book store was packed with merchandise. Since I had just browsed the other place for 2 hours, I was a bit bushed in the book store.
I did find a ‘surprise’ for someone and will mail it along soon.
We then went about 20 miles (toward home a bit) and went to Bube’s Brewery (the first syllable is pronounced ‘boo’) and we ate burgers outside on the patio.
They were pretty good but we waited for them and for the bill way too long. We had seen a Turkey Hill place that was new (their specialty is ice cream) on the way to the restaurant, but they had closed a half hour earlier.
We got to the Strasberg ice cream place 5 minutes before they closed for our desserts. Bri got caramel and I got pumpkin. So we had a full day and it was nice to see something different.
Here’s my post about the trip last year.
My pal Jennifer brought her son down to Longwood for his 2nd birthday today and was nice enough to invite me. The last time I saw both of them was in Ocean City, MD back in June, 2010. N. was about 8 months and he’s just as sweet and laid back as he was as an itty bitty. He was a bit shy with me at first and warmed up to me later. Longwood has a beautiful train display featuring Thomas the blue-faced engine in his own garden. I don’t think N. could believe the big layout for the trains. He really enjoyed that part, put when he got to the water fountains, he was in heaven! He got to check out several fountains and had to be changed. A true water lover. We had lunch also. I have been wanting their mushroom soup since the weren’t up at the Mushroom Festival last month. It was good. N. wasn’t too hungry, he wanted to ‘drive’ his stroller around which I remember Sean doing way back when.
The pumpkin here weighed about 840 lbs and N. said it was ‘heavy’. He was correct.
Here’s a neat parasol display:
and my little buddy playing:
Such a pretty display:
Good day!!
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