FORT WORTH ART FESTIVAL

The Art Fest is back! Nora and I are going today and I hope to find some interesting art to post about here. I also hope the kaleidescope guy is back again this year. He makes the most wonderful kaleidescopes. They are way too expensive for me to buy right now, but one of these days I will add one to my own collection.

I can't wait to see Nora. I haven't seen her in ages. I haven't seen any of my friends in ages. Because i moved away from them to be closer to work. And I am so lazy that I don't go back often enough. I think I'm more excited to be with my friend than I am about the Art Fest.

UPDATE: Art Fest totally rocked. Nora and I got out there about noon and stayed till about 6pm. We ate lunch at Billy Miner's, my favorite downtown resturant, then hit the exhibits. I OD'd on all the great art. I wanted it all. It was hard to pick a favorite. I bought a refrigerator magnet of this years Art Fest logo and was intrigued by the art of Sean Brown from Denver, Colorado, who's sculptures are the result of many separate processes. The website is www.seanbrownartist.com so go look.

AFRICAN WILDLIFE SWAP

ATCs I made for the African Wildlife Swap on ATCards.com forum.

ATC ROUND ROBIN

Here's a Round Robin that I completed recently. I especially like Round Robin jams because everyone gets an original ATC and not a copy as they do with regular one-card jams.

SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT JANUARY 30th

January 30 is my birthday

Some other interesting events that occurred on January 30th:

1661 -Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger radio series airs on station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.
1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.

People that share my birthday:

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States (d. 1945)
1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian
1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1941 - Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician (My Twin born in another country)
1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor

People that died on my birthday:

1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)

(Lifted from the blog LOVE AND LIBERTY)