Monday Murals
On Saturday I saw lots of murals for Art Week in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood holds its Art Week. It's the first time I've seen this. It continues till August 15th.
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Sepia Saturday
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l
How wonderful that Chicago has Art Week. It certainly encourages new artists, I think. These are great. I especially like the last two.
ReplyDeleteLove the last one, but I think the dog in the first one will turn out beautiful once it's fully painted.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to find the artists at work.
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