ISTANBUL STREET ART...

 Having nephews who appreciate street art & body adornments,
this post is dedicated to street art!

(ALL art was found in Istanbul)

bold & thin line lettering!

lettering = AMAZING!

Roger Rabbit & his motorcycle...

Mr. Spray Can...

building art near Galatasaray High School!

art in the alley way!

Spider Man & a modern woman...

(Bosphorus Strait)

Artist name? or musical instrument?

(at the bottom of the Galata Tower)

street art requires skill & talent... I can barely manage a paintbrush,

SO, I know using a spray can to create art must be a lot more difficult!!

CARTOON TIME...

JPE & I are MISSING these two...

doesn't seem right that we're AT the cabin...

& these two AREN'T!

BUT... we're 

enjoying the snow, the fireplace, a movie & being cozy!

FRIDAY FUNNIES 12.14.12

SLE'S ORNAMENT

Feeling nostalgic, I pulled Stephanie's tin of ornaments

out of the garage.

She's never moved them to Washington DC... 

so the few ornaments we set out

(for this holiday season)

are hers!!

 

The girls (SLE & ACE) each has a collection of ornaments

that mirrored their interests

at different ages in their lives.

Stephanie was a dancer, so

many of her ornaments have a dance theme.

... AND THE FINAL JOKE FOR THIS WEEK...

see you next Friday for another edition
 of FRIDAY FUNNIES!

FRIDAY FUNNIES...

more Frosty the Snowman jokes... 
 

What did the police officer say when he saw Frosty stealing?

 "Freeze" 

What does Frosty the Snowman take when he gets sick?

"A chill pill"

Who are Frosty's parents?
"Mom and Pop-Sicle"

TA! DAH!

PEANUT telling his favorite riddle... 


check back next week for FRIDAY FUNNIES! 

both pictures were edited using the snowman features
on PicMonkey (free editing program) - click HERE

 

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

quote by Dr Suess

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY 9.16.12

I had a lot of help with

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY

this weekend!!

Both daughters & my mom

{as well as Lola}

participated in the hunt.

Here's our documentation for this week's words: 

KISS, ASKEW, FRAGRANT, SIMPLE, PLANT

Yesterday at Target, Allie found this hat! she's planning to wear it during story-time in her kindergarten class. She tried it on for Lola... which created lots of excitement... Lola just couldn't figure out what was on Allie's head! her initial reaction was puzzlement, followed by curiosity, excitement, and then KISSES!

ASKEW is brought to you by Stephanie (SLE) & Lola. Stephanie volunteered to have me take a picture of her eyebrow... which was ASKEW. And, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to share Lola's tail... which has a funny little kink in it! Yes, she's a Boston Terrier - No, her breeder didn't clip her tail... she was born with her tail ASKEW.

The four of us are NOT shoppers! but, yesterday, after brunch at HOBEE'S RESTAURANT, Allie needed to return something at Target... one thing lead to another & we found ourselves browsing the clothes ranks... our shopping expedition expanded to the shops on Castro St in Mountain View. Stephanie bought this wonderful, lightly scented FRAGRANCE at East-West Bookstore.

THERAPY, another store, has a lot of unusual items... Allie thought this picture would meet the qualifications for the word, PLANT. The caption on the right hand page reads, "Please stop buying my friends if you are just going to slowly kill them." The girls know I don't have the best luck keeping indoor plants alive!!!

To share the diversity of the items found at THERAPY, here are some birdcages. Not your average, SIMPLE birdcage... but, something SIMPLY adorable... anything but ordinary!

We had a blast visiting! I dropped Stephanie at the San Francisco Airport at 7am this morning... she's heading back to Washington DC. Later today, Mom & I will drive back to Arroyo Grande. 

Next week's words for SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY are:

CRACKED, FALLEN, ORDINARY COLOR, BOKEH & FENCE.

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY 2.19.12

If you have elementary age kids, you'll recognize this guy!

Haven't posted much this week - more about that later!! Today is SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY & although I hadn't thought much about the hunt... I've managed to pull together a post.

So, without further delays... this week's words are: 

LOVE, DUPLICATED, TRENDING / TRENDS, PAPER, & PLASTIC

LOVE

What a LOVE-LY surprise! On Thursday, there was a small package in the mail --- MOM gifted us a new set of pillowcases! They really "cozied-up" the guest bedroom - in fact, I've taken several naps in this room over the past four days! battling a FLU-BUG... I N.E.V.E.R nap, but these do make taking a nap LOVE-LY!! check out the bold HEARTS! 

DUPLICATED

A bit of RAIN this week... some scattered clouds... captured the moisture on this pair of flowers --- do you think this qualifies as an example of something DUPLICATED?

TRENDS / TRENDING

Ten years ago, I never would have predicted I'd be spending an afternoon break, sipping a coffee with my granddaughter, Lydia {currently an 8 year old}? I'm certainly N-O-T a trend-setter... BUT, JPE & I should have predicted this TREND based on the following picture of Lydia {dated January 2006, when she was 2}!

PREDICTING A TREND??? 

via Amazon.com

Another TREND... notice Lydia's blue tshirt & the first picture in this post... 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series is a current reading TREND with the elementary school population. 

When kids are asked what they like about the book series... their response is:

"the cartoons"

"the jokes"

"the stories make me laugh"

if you haven't taken a peek at this TREND, check HERE!

PAPER

Last Sunday, on the way home from visiting mom, I stopped at my favorite scrapbooking store... Scraparazzi {Whittier, CA}.  OOPS! sorry Mom!! didn't tell you I was making this stop!  This store has amazing PAPER --- and I L-O-V-E PAPER!

In fact, quite often I use scrapbooking PAPER as the background for my pictures. You can see another glimpse of scrapbook PAPER as backgrounds in this picture or also here! scrapbook PAPER is also used here!

PLASTIC

Was looking for something in the garage --- remembered these were stored there!! wonder if Barbie is planning a trip to the beach for her Spring Break?? Maybe I should let her know she left these PLASTIC glasses & visors in my garage!!

Wanna join in the SCAVENGER HUNT for next week?? The words are: CROSSED, A GLIMPSE, HANDWRITTEN, BLISS & GRAY. 

It's great fun & I know ASHLEY would enjoy your participation. Check in with her at Ramblings & Photos. 

A PLACE TO LAY YOUR HEAD...

birthday & special interest
{2011}
Mattie's 5th Birthday - he had a PIRATE Party!

~~ MY MOM ~~

{called Nana by her 7 grandchildren &
GiGi by her 5 great-grandchildren}

sews

PILLOWCASES!!!

They're generally a SURPRISE!

you can never tell when you will get one

{or two if you are a married couple}...

You might get one in the mail or as a present:

 to commemorate a holiday...

{Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, 4th of July}

as a remembrance of a hobby or special interest...

{surfing, snowboarding, knitting, dancing, computers, baseball,

for your birthday or Christmas...

or to celebrate a special time in your life...

{wedding, graduation, Daisy-to-Brownie fly-up}

special interest: Katie LOVED Dora!
{2007}

holiday: Lydia's first Christmas pillow case
{2005}
snowmen w/green stocking caps & Santa hats

holiday: Christmas pillow case
first Christmas {2004} w/new husband, JPE
red horns w/red, glittery gold pine cone band

holiday: our new set of Christmas pillowcases
{2011}
Yippee!!
Doesn't our bed look cozy?

special interest: knitting
{2010}
ACE & Lola napping
balls of yarn against a yellow background

special interest: cartoon characters
{2007}
Mattie reminded us of Charlie Brown!
here's a Snoopy-like puppy dog pillowcase

Several guests at our Christmas celebration received a PILLOWCASE this year... I hope they realize how SPECIAL these PILLOWCASES are?

FYI: the grandkids have been known to "let it slip" when they received a pillowcase in the mail (& none of them live in close proximity to each other)!

Rumor is: ACE might have the largest inventory of PILLOWCASES!

MOM may have to do a "recall" to inventory her gift-giving list!!! ha! ha!

BTW: I'm confessing... I have 7 {seven pillowcases}

holiday: single king-size Christmas case {1998 - year I was divorced}

special occasion: set of wedding pillowcases {November 2004}

holiday: set of Christmas pillowcases w/French horns {December 2003}

special: set of yellow/green floral print {why? I'm special - ha! forgot year}

holiday: set of Christmas pillowcases (Christmas 2011}

JPE has a couple of pillowcases...

special interest: loves coffee {cups of java 2003?}

hobby: loves camping {moons & stars 2006?}

Okay - 'fess up ---- the rest of you!!!

Kidding aside {really --- I don't want to start a family war}... 

                                      these pillowcases are adorable!

                                        treasures that are well-used!

                                          a true LABOR-OF-LOVE!

                       THANKS!!! MOM / NANA / GIGI


psst! HAppY BiRthDaY Daisy!!!  ummm... did you get a pillowcase for your birthday? just checking!

WEEKWORD = BEGIN

Atlas butterfly 

BEGINNING 

his life after shedding his cocoon
pic taken 8/2/10 

KEW GARDENS, London

"The way to get started
is to quit talking

and BEGIN doing."
  ~ Walt Disney, American film producer, animator, philanthropist

Disney is best known for his theme parks ~

Disneyland (Anaheim, CA)

was not far from my childhood hometown!

in fact, you can hear the evening "firework blasts"

from my mom's house!

Disney was the original voice of 

Mickey Mouse; & also gave

Mickey his  

BEGINNING 

 character! 

The new word is 

B-E-G-I-N

My creative friend, 
SE Minegar

is hosting WEEKWORD.

Let her know you are interested
in participating 
so she can put your blog link
on her website...

Ummm... this post will take 

some thinking 
outside the box!

Looking forward to checking in 
with everyone's post 
on Friday... 

HAVE FUN!!!

TGIF GIFT...

(free art from the internet)

THIS IS MY

"T G I F"

GIFT to YOU!

Please visit this link:

http://blogs.vocalo.org/blog/amykr

and click on

Amy Krouse Rosenthal's

May 11, 2010

video about

K I N D N E S S... 

Who will you share this with?

If you want to know more about Amy,
here is what I found...


Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Miss(ion) Amy KR

Amy Krouse Rosenthal is on a mission: to inspire her vocalo audience through weekly, playfully interactive projects and invitations.  To say Rosenthal is a writer, filmmaker and radio host does not do justice to the variety and sheer innovation behind her creative endeavors.   She has published 12 children’s books (and 8 forthcoming) including The New York Times bestsellers Cookies: Bite Size Life Lessons and Duck! Rabbit! (which was also recently named the #1 children’s book of the year by Time magazine).  As for her adult work, Amazon named her Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life one of the top 10 memoirs of 2005.  Rosenthal is also the creator of the ongoing film project, “The Beckoning of Lovely: A Feature Film Featuring You.” Her new role with vocalo.org is in the spirit of the Writers’ Block Party show which aired on WBEZ Radio from 2001-08.

UHHH! OHHH!

(cartoon from Toothpaste for Dinner)

http://toothpastefordinner.org/

OKAY!

I CONFESS!!

I'M SUPPORTING 

THE LIBRARY SYSTEM!

I've been returning

my library books 

LATE

for the past two months.

URRGHHH!

I think I should take a "break" from

checking out library books

until this summer...

(when I'm supposed to have more time

for leisurely reading).

I'm progressing on my 

WORK PROJECT! 

(see post from 4/23/10)...

Halfway done with

editing, formating

and 

C R E A T I N G !

In honor of today's cartoon post - 

- a quote about READING!

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. 

It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, 

it gives you knowledge of the world 

and experience of a wide kind."

~ Elizabeth Hardwick, 

American novelist