My neighborhood’s annual art festival, Art on the Avenue, is generally the busiest, most lucrative day of the year for local restaurants. After a year and a half of the pandemic, many of the businesses are operating on razor-thin margins. They needed a lot of sales during Art on the Avenue, held earlier this month.Continue reading “Photo Friday: Eating for a Good Cause”
Category Archives: Arts & Crafts
Friday Photo: Sunflowers
This week I attended Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience. In the room where images were being projected, to music, on all four walls and the floor, we were all seated on benches or chair, or on pillows on the floor. I took many photos in that room, but this is one of my favorites. ThisContinue reading “Friday Photo: Sunflowers”
Immersed in Van Gogh
On Monday, I attended Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience. The first part was an electronic museum about his life and works. Then came the immersion room, a large room with images projected on all four walls and the floor, with a scattering of benches, chairs, and pillows in the middle of the room, so weContinue reading “Immersed in Van Gogh”
Art Festival, Pandemic-Style
Today was Art on the Avenue, usually my favorite neighborhood event of the year. This year was difficult. I love this art festival and really wanted to go. Most years I volunteer there, and spend the whole day. But we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, and I’ve been avoiding crowds. So I feltContinue reading “Art Festival, Pandemic-Style”
Stuff and Nonsense
Our goal is to clear out one of our storage units by the end of the month. We rented two 10-by-10-foot units a couple years ago, when we moved to our new house. We were supposed to have had several months for getting our old home ready to put on the market. During that time,Continue reading “Stuff and Nonsense”
Magic Bullets: Weird Holidays
Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Or, if you prefer, you could celebrate National White Wine Day today. Or start your day off with a big bowl of cereal; it’s also National Raisin Bran Day. Yes, these are all actual observances for today, August 4. I love weird holidays. I love them enough so thatContinue reading “Magic Bullets: Weird Holidays”
Magic Bullets: More Cover Pages
A few months ago I started keeping a bullet journal. My journal has a Harry Potter theme, because I started it in response to a bullet-journaling online workshop given by my Harry Potter group. In the post at that link I included a copy of my very first original bullet journal page, the cover pageContinue reading “Magic Bullets: More Cover Pages”
Postcards From the World: Shepherd Boy
Today I want to show off my favorite Postcrossing card of the ones I’ve received recently. This card, #FI-3952363, comes to me from Finland. The artwork is by Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931), who worked in realism, romantic nationalism, and symbolism. He painted many characteristically Finnish subjects, like this one, but also studied in ParisContinue reading “Postcards From the World: Shepherd Boy”
Photo Friday: Dogs of Del Ray
Today’s photo is one I took a few days ago on Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray, about a mile from my house. My son and I stopped to pick up a pizza and as we returned to the parking lot, an artist had just set up a ladder and was continuing work on theContinue reading “Photo Friday: Dogs of Del Ray”
Postcards From the World: Cool Stamps
Today’s featured Postcrossing postcard is one I received a few days ago from a college student in Hefei, China, about 300 miles west of Shanghai. The picture on the card (right) is cute enough, but what really blows me away is the magnificent stamps, above. The sender tells me the stamps describe “how ancient peopleContinue reading “Postcards From the World: Cool Stamps”
