peeps - for nicole

UNITY STAMP CO. and other things

worldwin papers white colormates
unity stamp company "simple pleasures" stamp kit
a black picture frame mat
rusty pickles chipboard letter "S"
prima paper flower
gen rhinestones


you know you're a paper dweeb when you buy a box of puffs because the box has a cool graphic




my other WWP projects that have been laying in wait!

philly day 2

room with a view/sheraton city centre

in the first one - follow the diagonal road in the center ....it leads you to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You can see the building in the distance.


the thinker(s)



auguste rodin museum


the gates of hell


denise...gettin herself some...




this needs no explantion...we didnt happen to shout yo adrien! (LOL nicole!)- but we did run the stairs while trumpeting the rocky gig (....ok I didnt run the stairs ...but the boys did - both ways, 2 or 3 times)



the "rocky" view from the top of the stairs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. we got to the top and didnt turn around for several minutes - i happened to finally turn around and was awestruck at the view.




when i first saw this, i thought perhaps it was a chunky leftover scrap of street striping that looked peculiarly like a little man, that a striper left behind thinking it was funny. as we walked thru the city for 2 days, we kept seeing more & more of them. they were only in the cross walks. We finally decided that maybe they were some sort of street arrows pointing a direction for a parade route, or a festival or maybe even a marathon. cute huh? we saw them in white, green and yellow


an amazing city.

5 Random things about me, via angela

i pass this challenge to whomever wants to partake!


1) i am afraid of airplanes


2) i love star trek

3) despite all the alternative music you see listed in my blog, i also listen to classical, jazz, blues and bluegrass

4) I paid 350.00 for my first car - a 1976 white mustang, i can still hear the aerosmith cassette tape playing in my head. my dads first new car was a 65 white mustang.

5) my room is messy and i dont make my bed

independence, ben and cheesesteaks

it obvious that I have a bazillion pictures from philly but i've just gone thru and pulled a few key shots...they should pretty much be in order as we went thru town...

philly cheesesteaks

we are off to philadelphia today for a long weekend to pretend we are nicholas cage (yum) on a mission to find a secret treasure. indeed, we love love love that movie (National Treasure) and it inspired us and our friends, the Dhayer Family, to take an 8 hour drive to go check out philly. time permitting, we will swing south thru DC - stop in Hershey to smell the chocolate, then pittsburgh for a stop to the Ikea store.

i have a mini kit packed and my hp photo printer and we will be keeping travelogues of our adventure.

oh. and eating at every philly cheesesteak joint we can find.

washer update part III

so the maytag repairman showed up last week. despite popular belief, he does not wear a navy blue coverall uniform or a funny little hat. and he didnt used to be a program director for WKRP in CinCinaTTi either.

regardless, he fixed my washer and I've been able to mostly catch up.

tonight the new cabrio showed up. it is sitting the garage with its companion, the dryer. I decided once we get back from philly, we will move out the old ones, paint, paper and reorganize, then move the new ones in. I'm thinking yellow & white striped wall paper will help me feel all cheery like june cleaver,maybe it will make doing the laundry seem fun.

or not