On time?

The computer board says we are expected to leave on time at 6:40 pm EST. Check out these blue skies.

BUT, the NWS reports 10 - 20 more inches of snow heading to the DC area, Tuesday into Wednesday.





- Posted from Washington DC using my iPhone and Blogpress.

Location:Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Access Rd,Arlington,United States

We cleared security!

We cleared security!

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Location:Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Access Rd,Arlington,United States

Women Cab Drivers Rule

We made it to the airport ! A very nice woman driver gave us a ride and drove safely and sanely! We have our boarding pass and our luggage checked! Now the waiting begins, but I'm happy to be here!


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Location:Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Access Rd,Arlington,United States

Con men on the metro

Well we wandered to the Metro thinking there was service to the airport, we waited around for the Blue Line. A little Eastern European fellow told us we could take the orange line to L'enfant plaza and get the yellow line to the Pentagon and get a bus. We arrived at L'Enfant and there was the little man offering us a ride to the airport.

I gave him that middle school teacher lecture, and said we were going the other way! No way I was riding with him!

We reported him to Metro Police, who directed us to the Hoilday Inn where we hope to get a legitimate cab ride

More adventure to follow!


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Location:Independence Ave SW,Washington,United States

SNOMG Blizzard of 2010

Back in October, my friend Dena and I were bemoaning about how busy and stressed we were and that we needed to run away





We decided we needed to take a weekend, see a museum and do some crafts. The first weekend of February was the first date we could come up with. Dena would take a long weekend, and I would put the BRO on the back burner and we would head out to Washington DC. We would hit the museums and hang out at the motel in the evening.Dena would do crochet and I would do some digital art.





So here we are! We saw the American History and Natural History Museums on Friday, Watched the snow fall from Rosslyn at the Best Western and trapsed through the snow to the Iwo Jima Memorial on Saturday





Sunday, we boarded the Metro and headed to the Mall, and waded through the snow to the Monuments!






Conditions are looking good for a Tuesday, late, afternoon flight back to St.Louis!





We've enjoyed our trip and yes, we knew there was SNOW in the forecast, but we really didn't believe that there would be 12- 30 inches of snow! (We're from St. Louis!) We're impressed by the emergency responders of the DC area, they do great work!





We'll be back!

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Location:Washington,DC

IPhone postings

So.... I downloaded this app to my phone, do you think it will work? I wonder how you add a photo? Here goes! Oops, wait there is a little camera icon at the top of the page. And now I have added this photo.

The full moon, Friday, of course I edited it through three different photo apps. Very fun!

Now we'll see if it will post! Hold your breath!


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Mixed Media Monday - Games People Play

Of course it is the middle of the night, and I am surfing facebook and flickr and stumble upon Stacy Merril's post and Mixed Media Monday. Very dangerous, and of course, time for bed. The theme, Games People Play. And I always want to play. But like all of us, I'm sometimes a day late and often a dollar short. So, I cruised through my flickr photos for work involving "game pieces" . Projects made for other challenges. Two birds with one stone....?

Both projects were for ZNE challenges swaps or  book clubs. The choose courage, below, was an early work. And the 7's above, more recent. My photography and editing has improved. And maybe design and execution as well. But most importantly, I'm still having fun.

Echo - Faces

"If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience.”

-- by Woodrow Wilson

The week's Echo is "Faces" , click on the link in the side bar to see what's happening.

Chrysti Hydeck and Susan Tuttle

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Music is about textures as well as melody.
Ken Hill

Check out Chrysti's blog for this week's echo challenge as well as Susan's photos My dulcimer is the focal point of my digital collage interpretation of " Melody".

Join us with an Echo of your own.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
Giuseppe Mazzini

this is aRt - Stamper's Sampler Dec/Jan 2010

I'm honored to have my card creation in the December/January 2010 Stamper's Sampler. Each month there is a template published in the magazine, your challenge is to create your "take" on the template and send it in for possible publication. This one is sort of "out of the box" for me.  The corset image is not one I would have come up with myself, but that is what is so fun about the templates. You try creating in a new way. Thanks for looking.

Surprise

So.....does this pass for surprise? That's me with my big brother, Jim. Maybe that's shock, or fright and not surprise? Posting an "echo" for Chrysti and Susan. Tell us what you think, or post your link to your "surprise".

The Merriest Christmas

The template was in a Stamper's Sampler magazine in early summer of 2008. A house shape. It would be published in the December/January 2009, I was sure a holiday house would be a hit. I was disappointed when it wasn't in the magazine. It seems the magazines feature fall/winter holidays in their October/November issue. But here it is in the Winter 2010 Somerset Studio Gallery. I am honored to have my work featured in Somerset Studio Publications.

The project features Daisy D paper scraps and Catslife Press and Mrs O'Leary's rubber stamps.

I have another item featured in the newest issue of Stamper's Sampler. Which will be the topic of my next blog post. This is indeed exciting. I have been trying to reorganize my life/activities/time/space, to make more time for art. I was feeling a bit discouraged, not so much that I wasn't having things published. You have to send "stuff" in to get published. I wasn't  making the time to do it. I was beginning to feel like it wasn't worth the effort to continue to try. These wonderful magazines showed up in the same week.

Abundance

Playing again. I have an abundance of photo apps for my iPhone. With the camera that came with the phone, I have 13. Also flickr and photobucket. Does that make 15.

I am reponding to Chrysti's and Susan's "echo" challenge with my photo "echo" of the word of the week, "Abundance". Abundance is well....abundant in my life. I have all that I need, lots of what I want. It's hard to complain. ( I still manage.)

The photo is a shot of campaign buttons that were on display at the JM Davis ARms and Historical Museum. We stumbled across this museum on Old Route 66, our way home from Galveston, Texas, last week. There was an abundance of campaign buttons in this photo.(I of course used my new photo app, that Chrysti turned me on to, Cinema FX, using the WWll setting.) However, the musuem has a collection of more than 20,000 fire arms. And that was just the beginning. Mr. Davis's collection was abundantly unique. There was a lovely display of Sunday School pins and certificates, and just around the corner you would find a striking display of hangman's nooses complete with black hood and a newspaper article about the convicted felon's atrocity. Around the corner from that you find a local high school exhibit and then in the next row a collection of weapons confiscated by the local police. 1,200 beer steins lined one row. Another display showed an extensive collection of vintage western movie posters and collectibles. ( I loved the Bonanza coloring book.) And more!!!!

It was unique, interesting, disturbing, thoughtful and amazing.

This week I received two free magazines from Somerset Studios....more abundance. I have a card in the new Stamper's Sampler, and a card in the new Somerset Studio Gallery. I dabble with art, and if you have read previous posts I am in the process of reogranizing priorities so that I can manage my time in a more productive manner. I was feeling a bit like it wasn't worth the effort, and voila, the magazines showed up with my work published in them. A little positive reinforcement is a big motivator.

More on my cards in the next post.

Decorate

Our church group took our annual mission trip to eastern Kentucky. We worked on various home improvment projects. But one family had the greatest lawn decorations. I love eclectic yard decorations.

You'll find this very cool vintage bike in my yard, boasting our street address. But I'm loving the plastic rocking horse that was wedged on this fence in Kentucky, amid a shrub of some sort. There were two horses. I had a horse like this as a child. Now I am searching for one, to wedge on the fence and grow shrubbery around it. My neighbors will no doubt freak.

So, "Echo" my attempt at decorate. Join Chrysti Hydeck and Susan Tuttle and company and play along.