A Three Day Weekend (sorta)

 

Happy Saturday! Currently our temperature is 1 and 

the real feel is -2. Party city here!  It will get 

worse before we have 40's late next week!

It's a holiday weekend!

Valentine's Day is tomorrow!

Where has this month gone?

 

Since it is going to be so cold and we are not easting 

in restaurants yet, we are opting for carry 

out from one of our fave places. They 

have a nice four course meal that we 

will choose from.

What are your Valentine plans?

A little vintage valentine action on my little tree.

A very good friend of mine made this Valentine 

cutie for me. Love her.

 Hope your day is special and filled with lots of love.

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Monday is President's Day and  we both have the day 

off. Going to try and finish up our painting. 

Then our looooong renovation project will 

almost be finsihed! Just a few little things 

after that. Who knew this project would 

have soooo many obstacles?

In my title for this post, I added "sorta" to the title.

I kinda had a four day weekend because we had

remote learning yesterday vis Webex. Kinda nice

to be at home but still see my kids. Plus we got to

see actual faces--no masks! 

Monday also is a big day here. 23 years ago Mr. 

Ken and I went on our first date! As most 

of you know we do celebrate this day 

each year, it is something fun to do and right 

now we all need as much fun as possible. Since 

temps will be dangerous to be out in, 

not too sure what our plan is but we 

will celebrate for sure!!

Take care, be safe and stay warn if it is cold 

where you are.

~Keep on Dreaming~

PS: Blogger is being naughty. Tried several times to 

fix the text.

Parade Bound !

 

Tomorrow we are parade bound as the
title says! Kansas City is throwing a city
wide party for our Super Bowl Champs.

Our Quarterback, Patrick Mahomes was
at Disney World yesterday celebrating
with children involved in the Make A
Wish program and tomorrow he will
join his teammates, coaches and owners
for a BIG celebration.

Mr Ken, myself and our neighbor will
head to the parade after Mr. works for
a bit. Should be a fun day, joining a
million of  our closest friends
celebrating a Chiefs win in the Super Bowl.

Oh, did I mention that we might have
snow too? Woo hoo?

Fun times!!


~Keep on Dreaming~

A Blast from the Past

How many of us had paper dolls?
I loved them as a little girl and
I still have some today though
I don't play with them. My Mom 
subscribed to McCall's
magazine and I couldn't wait for 
each month's new magazine.
In this particular installment
Betsy appears with her cousin
Barbara McCall. 
Betsy McCall appeared as a paper
doll in May 1951, she was said to 
be "five going on six, living in a
white house with a porch and a 
yard to play in." In Betsy's debut,
"Nosy" her six month old
Dachshund is seen with her.
So fun!
Do you remember Betsy?


~Keep on Dreaming~

Watching...

 

Happy February...

Valentine's is coming up. Where
has this month going?

So tonight we are watching one of
my fave channels. Yes, I am a Hall-
mark channel junkie, especially
when the holidays roll around.

I enjoy these movies because they
are lighthearted, easy to watch, and
fun. Yes, we all know pretty much
how they end but we don't know the
path the characters will take to get
there.

This channel is my escape from the
stress of the world around me, I don't
have think too much during these movies
and that is just fine with me.

Do you watch Hallmark? What do you enjoy?





~Keep on Dreaming~

A Fun Adventure -Part 2

 

I am back with part 2 of our adventure.
We start with an artist studio completely
out of bricks!

 

 
A life size pencil.

 
"Fun" spelled out in bricks.

 

 
This sculpture was amazing! The blue
lighting set if off so well that you really
thought someone was actually swimming!

 

 
Mr. Ken met a new friend. Ha !

 
Roar!!! A life size dinosaur...oh my!

 
We had lots of fun.

 A popular sculpture with kids.
His guts are falling out!

 

 
A miniature of the whole exhibit.

 

 
Hello!

 
This is my favorite sculpture because it
is a replica of the fountain outside of
Union Station where this exhibit was.
Plus it was actually working!

 

  

It was a two thumbs up vote from Mr.
Ken. We had such a fun time, it exceeded
everything I thought the exhibit would be
and since he knew nothing about what we
were seeing, Mr. Ken thought it was fantastic!

If you ever have a chance to see Mr. Sawaya's
work go see it! You will truly be amazed.

Hope you enjoyed these two posts.



~~Tomorrow I will pop back in for a post
on what is coming to Dreaming in April,
stop backby to see what I will be posting
about for ALL of April.



~Keep on Dreaming~

A Fun Adventure--Part 1

Hello!
Today, I am going to share with you an
adventure Mr. Ken and I went on about
month ago. Wow, time flies.
Anyway I took him down to our Union
Station to an exhibit called " The Art of
the Brick."

 
This was an exhibit by acclaimed artist
Nathan Sawaya.  Mr. Sawaya is based
in New York and creates his sculptures
with a particular toy. His art focuses on
large scale sculptures using LEGO bricks.
He is the first artist to bring the bricks to
the art world.

Sawaya grew up playing with the
same toys we did plus the LEGOS
in Oregon. He moved to New York
to attend college at NYU and become
a lawyer. The legal world was a tough
one and the evenings he used the LEGOS
as a relaxation tool.

 

He realized that he would rather create
that fight more legal battles so he left
his law career behind and made a move
toward creating LEGO art.
Now he is an author, speaker and one of
the most popular artists of all time and
he does this with LEGOS!

Below you will see many of Sawaya's
sculptures. some have a description and
some don't. I was so enthralled while
going through this exhibit that I had to
remind myself to take pictures, :)
And yes, each sculpture is glued together.
Whew!

 

One brick at a time.

 

 

 

This one was on a canvas.
Sorry for the smushed pics,
Blogger is being naughty!

 

 

 

 

A beautiful illuminated sculpture.

 

It's reflection on the floor.

 

 

 

 

 

These sculptures were life size!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one was hanging from the ceiling!

 

 

 

 

I am not any kind of artist where the
bricks are concerned but I think if I
were to focus really hard I might be
able to make this one.

Well, this ends Part 1, on Wednesday I
will share Part 2.

What did you think. Unbelievable huh??





~Keep on Dreaming~