8/30/2010
Mimi was on her way to Aspen today. She loves hanging out in her little dog carrier.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Day 241 - Glass Beads
8/29/2010
One of the passengers near my gate today was Terry Henry,
a beadworker from California. She was wearing this beautiful bead that she created.
Check out more of her work at: terry-henry-glassworks.com
Day 239 - Leaving on a Jet Plane
8/27/2010
"Leaving on a Jet Plane"
Becca waiting at gate B88 just before boarding her first flight, Denver to Kansas City, on her way to Washington and then on to Moscow.
Becca waiting at gate B88 just before boarding her first flight, Denver to Kansas City, on her way to Washington and then on to Moscow.
Day 238 - Airport Parking Meter
Day 236 - Glitter Shoes
8/24/2010
To continue the footwear theme: one of my Aspen passengers was wearing these beautiful Sketchers sandals.
She said that they are really comfortable too.
Day 235 - Crane Earrings
8/23/2010
One of my favorite pair of earrings. These origami cranes were made by one of my favorite 6th grade students years ago and I made them into earrings. I think that he used Post-It-Notes to make the cranes. We were probably discussing the book Sadako and the Thousand Cranes about the little Japanese girl who believed that if she was able to fold 1000 origami cranes, she would be cured of the leukemia she had as a result of the atomic bomb that fell on her city of Hiroshima. Today school children leave paper cranes at her memorial in the Hiroshima Peace Park. I wore them to a dinner for Seeking Common Ground, Building Bridges for Peace the other night. It seemed appropriate!
Day 234 - Yellow Shoes
8/22/2010
My ramper friend Matt had these wonderful yellow, high-top, Converse shoes!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Day 233 - Hat
8/21/2010
My passenger, Ms. King, was on her way from Montana to Arkansas. She is a member of the Crow tribe and said that she changes her hat from time to time depending on her mood and what she is doing.
Day 232 - Cookie Cutters
8/20/2010
These fun boxes have a cookie cutter as part of the base.
They were made in England for Department 56 and are part of a series.
I only have these two, but they came in lots of other designs.
I'm not sure if there was anything inside the boxes or not.
Day 231 - Hamsa
8/19/2010
This plaque came from Jerusalem.
It is combines several Middle-Eastern symbols the "evil eye"
for protection against bad things and the "Hamsa" hand.
The hamsa is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
The hamsa is often incorporated in jewelry and wall hangings,
as a defense against the evil eye.
Day 230 - Folk Music Instruments
8/18/2010
These are the latest additions to my folk music collection:
the stringed instrument on the top is from Albania;
Becca brought the top flute from Romania;
the long center flute is made of birch bark and is from my recent trip to Norway;
and the bottom flute came from Greece.
The Romanian flute is played sort of like a Kazoo but with fingering
and the Norwegian one doesn't have any finger holes, you change the sound by overblowing and using your finger on the end.
Day 229 - "Blue Jeans" Cookie Cutter
8/17/2010
In the goody bag at the CCCC convention was this cute cutter, designed by our own local group, the Rocky Mountain Cut-Ups. The jeans cutter was packaged with a card telling the history of Levi jeans in an old pocket. It illustrated a part of California history because Levi's were invented there.
Day 228 - Presidential Cookies
8/16/2010One of the speakers and vendors at our recent Cookie Cutter Collector's Club Convention was the author of "Presidential Cookies", Bev Young. This delightful book has cookie recipes and stories from each of the presidents from Washington to Obama.
Day 227 - Dragons
8/15/2010The dragon's lair (aka-my bff Ruth's chair). Ruth is a major dragon collector and these are some of the little soft ones.
Day 226 - Knitting Nancy
8/14/2010Souvenirs from the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum). There was a demonstration of Norwegian fiber arts with weaving and knitting. These cute tools are used to make braids.
http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/knittingnancys.html
Day 224 - Buttons
8/12/2010At the Arapahoe County Quilt Guild meeting the speaker was Jill Gorski. Her topic was Buttons.
This is one of the buttons that she brought to show us.
Her web site is:
Day 223 - Henna Design
8/11/2010At a party for Becca's friends the night before their wedding, the cousin of the bride had this amazing henna design. It was done by an African friend of her mother.
She was waiting the prescribed hours for the oil to dry so she could wash her arm. This kind of henna design should last for several weeks.
Several years ago I met another local henna artist. This is her web page:http://www.hummingbirdhenna.com/gallery.htm
Day 222 - Postcards
8/10/2010
Some of the postcards I recently got (OKI so I sent 3 of them to myself from overseas!)
From top clockwise: Oslo, Vigeland park; Iceland; Ukraine from Becca; and Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Day 221 - Women's Professional Football
8/9/2010Katrina Cunningham is a member of the Las Vegas Showgirlz, a team of the Women's Professional Football league. Her brother works for SkyWest and she came to my gate to wait for him this evening.
http://lvshowgirlz.com/
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Day 219 - Roses
8/8/2010 Kristi received this lovely flower from her "significant other"!! Beautiful!
Day 218 - Home Again
8/7/2010
Home again, brunch with my girls. Auntie Becca was hugged by her nieces.
Day 216 - Icelandic Sunrise
8/5/2010
Sunrise from a window at Keflavik International Airport, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Day 212 - Vigeland Park
7/31/2010
Some of the statues in Vigeland Park in Oslo, Norway.
Vigeland is Norway's best known sculptor and
the park contains over 200 sculptures and fountains.
We were there on a rainy summer evening.
Day 212 - Seagulls
7/30/2010
Sea Gull flying near the boat on Aurlandsfjord just out from Flam, Norway.
Day 210 - Bergan Farm
7/28/2010
House from Bergan farm at the Sigdal and Eggedal Museum. This house was the one where my great-great grandmother's family lived before she immigrated to Minnesota in 1857. We took two buses from Oslo to get to Prestfoss. The Sigdal and Eggedal Museum indeed has a collection of buildings from the area and one is a "cottage" from Bergan farm. It took my breath away to walk into the house where my great-grandmother was probably born. The interior is mostly not original to the house but has a collection of furniture and clothing from a collector in the area.
The museum curator, Sigrid Kvisle spent several wonderful hours with us, telling us about the buildings, the collections and then making some waffle cakes for us to have with our tea.
She shared a book that has a history of the area. Then she called the current resident of Bergan farm, a distant cousin. His brother-in-law came to take us to the farm.
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