Floral Birthday Using Art Philosophy

Hello! Hope you have had a wonderful weekend so far. Happy Thanksgiving weekend to those of you who read my blog in the US. We had a neat day. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is hosting a Mythbusters Exhibition until January. We have wanted to go, but had to do so when Steve was available. Knowing the museum was open on Thanksgiving and that we eat at our normal supper time(no family in town), we decided to go Thursday morning. It was a great time as it wasn't too busy. 

Here are a few sort of decent photos I managed to capture with my phone camera and a bit of enhancing in PSE.

 Steve even got in on the hands on activities. This one was about building a structure that could withstand wind ala The Three Pigs. 

Jessica loved creating all kinds of structures with the different blocks available.

I'm so happy to have this picture turn out okay. This was a highlight of the exhibit. The question to answer was do you get wetter walking or running in the rain. You could do either through a walkway that mimicked rainfall. Then you could look at yourself in a mirror with a blacklight above it. You could then see how many waterdrops you got. Of course the girls went through several times, so the results are not really scientifically accurate. ;) Neat result nonetheless.

And onto the card I created. I saw the original here on Courtney Lane Designs. I thought the cluster of flowers and leaves were just so pretty. I don't own the Art Philosophy cartridge(for the flowers and leaves), but I have a friend who does (Hi Becky) and who is nice enough to let me borrow it. *Ü*

Here is my version of the card:

It's pretty much a copy and steal everything. I used CTMH cardstock and inks: Baby Pink, Buttercup, Pear, Sunflower and Cotton Candy. I used pattern paper from the Chantilly paper pack. The centers of the flowers are punched with circle punches.The focal piece is a cut from the Artiste cartridge (p. 33). The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Basics set. I embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder. I meant to use it the other way, but didn't realize I had it "backwards" until after I  adhered the flowers. Oh well. I kind of like the detail of the debossed look. So, happy accident there! Oh the sparkly looking gems are from CTMH as well. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

I just love it when the creative mojo is flowing!

Impromptu Field Trip on Saturday

Steve got an email late last week about an exhibit that was going to be open for Saturday only at the Museum of Nature and Science. The subject of the exhibit? Fossils that were found just a few weeks ago in Snowmass Colorado! Fossils of mammoths, mastadons and a giant sloth. How cool is that?! Here is an article I found online about the discovery. History in the making is something you just don't want to miss out on. So, we went. I didn't bring my camera, thinking they wouldn't allow photos. Um, I was wrong. Steve pulled out his phone and took some pictures. And I thought you might like to take a peek. I tried to edit the pictures so you could see the detail better.

 This is the inside of the horn core. The horn core is the inside of the tusk. The tusk is actually a sheath over the horn core.

 These animals had huge teeth. And they get 4 sets over their lifetime.

 When one tooth is ground down too far, another set moves in to take its place.

Here you can kind of see the other set getting ready to move.

They think this is from an 18 year old female.

 Here is the tusk, the horn core is from inside this.

Another shot of the horn core.

 They had a few activities for the kids to participate in.

They also had these life size banner posters so you could get a feel for just how large these animals were.

 

Jessica loves to get her face painted!

 Cute mastadon, eh?

 Amy liked her hat.

This is the leg bone of something, I don't remember what.

They had some other fossils on display that weren't from the recent findings.

If you look by that lady in the green sweater, you can see the pelvis they had hung up. It's at the height it would have actually been for that animal (I think it was a mastadon...it was huge!)

Anyway, it was a fascinating exhibit.

After we were done, we had to go into the Gems and Minerals exhibit and then the Mummies exhibit.

Amy wanted to go to others, but we'd been there a few hours by this point and the place was packed. 

Good thing we have a membership and can go back whenever we want. Except to see these fossils they just found. It was so worth the trip over, I think.

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Exhibition Health x2…

The girls kept begging asking if we could go to the Museum of Nature and Science and see the Exhibition Health again. So, that’s what we did this morning. It was not too busy at 9:30 in the morning and we got to see all the things we wanted to see. I took a bunch of pictures, but not all of them came out very well. The lighting there is pretty tricky, but I did get some I thought you might like to see to get a better idea of what makes this exhibit so appealing.

Don’t you love the Halloween socks? I guess they sort of go with the black and white dress. LOL My girls dress themselves, so they are pretty creative in their outfits sometimes. But we don’t fight over getting dressed. I’ll take that over them being all matchy-matchy.

The hands you see above her shoulder are mine. *Ü*

Not the greatest photo, but I think you get the idea.

This shows up after you walk across a screen. This might help:

I took some other photos, that didn’t come out too well. We also checked out the Dinosaur exhibit and because it wasn’t busy, the volunteer showed the girls a T-Rex tooth and how it would fit into a T-Rex mouth. Did you know they grew new teeth throughout their lives? I didn’t.

And we went into the Space Odyssey exhibit. I think this is a cool addition to the exhibit…

The globe rotates and is textured. Way cool.

All in all we were there for a good 2 1/2 hours and there were plenty of exhibits we didn’t see this time around. Good thing we have a membership.

Hope you enjoyed these “what I did on my vacation” photos. LOL

Thanks for stopping by.

Jeanne