Beading: Green, orange and red triple earrings
Puzzle: Morton Arboretum Road
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.57cm
Producer: The Canadian Group, Sure-Lox, Country Roads series
Location site: http://www.mortonarb.org/
Location: The Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, covers 6.9 square kilometres and is made up of gardens of various plant types and collections of trees from specific taxonomical and geographical areas. It includes native woodlands and a restored Illinois prairie. The Arboretum has over 4,100 different species of trees, shrubs and other woody plants from …
Beading: Two gold-tone bookmarks
Photo: Pink spiky tulip, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Photo: Red and white field, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Beading: Red cord metal pendant necklace
Photo: Yellow tulip at night, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Photo: Red and white tulip, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Puzzle: Monaco
Size: 500 pieces, 1 missing
Dimensions: 45cm x 35cm
Producer: Leap Year
Location: Monaco or Monte Carlo, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe on the northern central coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is surrounded on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about 16 km from Italy.
Monaco is the name of the country and its capital (and only) city. It …
Photo: Yellow striped tulip at night, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Photo: Hats against sky, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Photo: Dew on red tulip, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Puzzle: Hilton Head Lighthouse
Size: 504 pieces
Dimensions: 27.3cm x 45.7cm
Producer: Mega, Encore! series
Location: Hilton Head is a resort town (located on an island of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean) in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. The island gets its name from Captain William Hilton. In 1663, Captain Hilton identified a headland near the entrance to Port Royal Sound, which he named “Hilton’s Head” after himself. [Wiki]
Photo: Yellow striped closed tulip, Tulip Festival, May, 16, 2009
Photo: Lilac tulip, Tulip Festival, May 16, 2009
Photo: Red and purple field, Tulip Festival, May 16, 2009
Book: The Babytalk Insider’s Guide To Your Baby’s First Year
Title: The Babytalk Insider’s Guide To Your Baby’s First Year
Author: Stephanie Wood and Kitty O’Callaghan, contributing editors, babytalk magazine
Source: Ottawa Public Library
ISBN: 978-0-446-69804-7
Available online
Notes: This book’s main message, it appears, is to calm the parents down by telling them not to stress about pretty much anything except putting …
Belly cast
In August (about a month before my due date, and a bit more before Alaric was actually born), I travelled to Julie Keon’s studio in Cobden for a belly casting session. The result of this session was a white body cast from shoulders to top of the legs including the arms and hands, made with hospital grade plaster-gauze strips. The cast remained with Julie for a few weeks to be completed, strengthened and painted the shade of blue I have …
Puzzle: Coliseum, Rome, Italy
Size: 750 pieces
Dimensions: 59.69cm x 39.37cm
Producer: The Canadian Group, Sure-Lox, Wonders of the World series
Location: The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.
Occupying a site just …
Puzzle: The Sleepy Shopkeeper by Mike Wilks
Size: 550+ pieces
Dimensions: 46cm x 61cm
Producer: Great American Puzzle Factory
Author: Mike Wilks (b. 1947, London) is an artist, illustrator and author of nine books including the global bestseller The Ultimate Alphabet (Pavilion Books, 1987). [Wiki]
Note: Puzzle within a puzzle – find over 1000 things that begin with the letter “S”. “Who would think that here in the nooks and crannies of the sleepy …