Saturday, July 12, 2008

Happy 4th of July (one week later)

I am finally posting about our Fourth of July Festivities! My sister and brother in law Shannon and Zach came down and we did a chocolate fountain! Here are some pictures!





Shannon and I got matching shorts and decided to be corney for a day and matched!!



I made some hair do-dads ...

My father has taken up carving and has started to carve his thumb... remarkable isnt it?

Trees Full Of Jewelry!

Happy Saturday!

This week I have been trying to detox from all my vacations, yes I know my life is very difficult but that is what I have been trying to do none the less. My week of detox has consisted of watching lots of movies, TV Shows, and a whole lot of nothing! Amongst the nothing I have managed to get a few things done however. I have discovered and remedied a few problems that have vexed me over the last bit of my life. For example I have ALOT of necklaces! Here they all are...

An excess of necklaces in fact... I had a jewelry holder but apon examining it the other day I discovered that the holder was so full there were necklaces hidden in the back that i dearly loved that I had not worn in months for the sheer fact that they were hidden!

This was a problem that had to be solved! I needed a bigger jewelry holder so what did I do? I MADE ONE!!!



My dad so willingly helped me to mount my tree to some wood so it wouldnt tip over!













This is been my major project this week! I just got some wire i had laying around and twisted and twisted! I am excited with how it turned out! I love jewelry and i love trees so what could be better?

Happy Trails!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Bonjourno!

Hello!!! I have been out of touch with the blogging world for more than a month, wow!!! I wanted to share a few snap shots of my fabulous trip to Europe! I had an incredible time and learned so much! We got to go places I only ever dreamed of visiting! Enjoy the pictures and I will begin to post more of my artistic adventures soon!

Our feet in the Rome Airport!

A fountain in Saint Peters Square outside the Vatican!



The Fabulous fountain of Trevi

The Roman Forum at Sunset!!!

The Colliseum at night!!!

The Vatican in the Square of the Pinecone, can you see why?
I didnt realize but the Vatican is one of the biggest art museums in the world! It has millions of incredible sculptures, paintings, and pretty much everything you can imagine both secular and not... You could spend years there, if only we all could!!

One of the many incredible statues at the Vatican. Aparently, this is one of the pieces that gave michaelangelo his inspiration when he painted the Sistine Chapel!

Taromina, Italy ... It was the cutest little italian town! I Loved it!



Mykenos Greece, and mom driving a jeep... in greece (yes, it was scary!)

Italian Pasta!!!!!


Athens!

Our first baklava in Greece! I LOVE baklava!











Pompeii... Calcified me!

Mount Vesuvious and Pompeii!

The Amalfi Coast... the second most beautiful coast in the world... next to California?

An italian artist...

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Raining In Baltimore, 3500 Miles Away

I am back!!! Preston and I despite a 2 hour plane delay in Baltimore got home last night! We had a fabulous trip! We saw a million things, walked a million miles, and had much more fun than what we saw and how much we walked! We named our trip Raining In Baltimore, 3500 miles away! We love the Counting Crows and on their first album they have a beautiful song called Raining In Baltimore and yesterday apon our arrival in Baltimore it RAINED!!! We were very excited and so that is our trips name. There is also an alternative title called The Tenacious and slightly painful adventures of P-Stone and Zelbie! (P-Stone is Preston and I am Zelbie) So pick a title... for this trip we are going to go the melodramatic route and give it both names! Enjoy the pictures I took ALOT but here is a good overview! Let me again add that it was a fabulous trip we had some great food and ALOT of fun!... I better get ready for my next adventure!

Lake Winnipesaukee! I Loved this place... this was on our Sunset Cruise!!




This is the John Lennon Memorial in Central Park! What a beatiful place!

This was right by our hotel in New York. I love the buildings there!!


Taken from Central Park!

Statue of Liberty!

Washington DC at the National Gallery of Art! I LOVED it there and particularly the modern art section but then again it is me... so is anyone surprised?

Washington Monument!

A cool picture of Preston at the Vietnam Memorial!

The White House

This is a good representation of how tired I was after we had trompted around Washington DC for the day and saw everything we possibly could! It was incredible just very tiring... What is a better place to nap I ask you?

Preston and I at the Washington Memorial...

We got the chance to go to a Boston Red Sox Orioles game in Baltimore at Camden Yard! What a beautiful park! It was a great place to watch baseball!

It was an awesome game and this is Preston and I at 12:00 AM during the 13th Inning!

It may be the 13th inning........... but we are still happy!!!