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This is an article about the Inspired By Reading Book Club that appeared in the latest issue of the Ligonier Echo. (Click the image to enlarge it.) The next meet up is on May 28th at Allegory Gallery! It is also the date of the reveal and blog hop! To keep up with the book club, join the group's Facebook page. CLICK HERE to check it out.

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Time for a new challenge over at By Lori Designs and our theme for this challenge is flowers. Use an image with flowers, embellish with flowers or do both!I used this great flower pot by Lori called 'Charlotte's Flower Pot' from the Spring bundle. I added a sentiment with stickers by Cosmo Cricket and some handmade wrinkle ribbon. (I just realized you can't see the sentiment under that ribbon)Our challenges run for two weeks so I hope you get a chance to play along with me and the rest of the design team. You can get all the info and see what the rest of the design team created here.Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. ~ hugs Sherry ~

Happy Wednesday!Oh how I LOVE a short work week....ha!Last weekend while stamping away I found a few goodies that hadn't seen the light of day for some time.Distress Inks!Here I have used Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint and Worn Lipstickon the peacock feather from the Peacock Pretties set by Reverse Confetti.A fairly quick and simple card to showcase this beautiful set :)Stamps: Peacock PrettiesPaper: White, Black, Pacific PointInk: Black, Distress inks in tumbled glass, peeled paint and worn lipstickAccessories: Spots and Dots embossing folder, Sewing, DimensionalsHave you ordered yourself some RC stamp sets yet? If you have you should link up your cards in the 'Fetti Finds section of the Reverse Confetti Blog :)Thanks for stopping by today!

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on selected inland waterways. This lovely FDC was given to me by Pia from Finland. The stamps portray the logo and the motto on the first stamp and the different phases of operations that the RNLI is normally involved in.The RNLI was founded on 4 March 1824 as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, with Royal Patronage from King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland. It was given the prefix "Royal" and its current name in 1854 by Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland. It has official charity status in both the United Kingdom and Ireland.The RNLI operates 444 lifeboats (332 are on station, 112 are in the relief fleet), from 236 lifeboat stations around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The RNLI's lifeboats rescued an average of 22 people a day in 2011. RNLI lifeboats launched 8,321 times in 2012, rescuing 7,912 people. The RNLI's lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved more than 140,000 lives since 1824. RNLI lifeguards placed on selected beaches around England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands attended to 14,519 incidents in 2011.

When you think of a hope chest, what comes to mind? Family heirlooms? Handmade treasures? Scrapbooking supplies? Okay, so perhaps scrapbook delights aren’t the first thing you think of when you think of a Hope Chest, but this special container will likely come to mind when you see the product line of the same name by Pink Paislee. Megan Hoeppner, creative editor This is Hope Chest. With its design inspired by items you’d likely find in a cedar chest, this striking collection would be beautiful on heritage pages, wedding albums, and any other classic theme or occasion. Aren’t these embellishments beautiful and springlike? If this update leaves you eager to try this stylish line on for size, this may be the post for you. You see, we’re giving the collection to one lucky lady or lad. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post between now and Monday, May 27 and you’re entered to win. Best of luck to you! And congratulations to last week’s Late & Great winner, Liliana, who will receive stamps and dies from My Favorite Things Stamps! We hope these treats quickly become some of your favorite things. Cheers! Megan Hoeppner, creative editor

The collector's house. It's a love affair from afar. Lust and avarice and greed. I want. I covet. People will talk. Gossip and snicker and bite. I'm hooked. It's a bad habit I just don't want to break. I'm in love. Not the collector but the house ... and the collections. By Selldorf Architects.

From May 23rd to June 30th, Hidden City Philadelphia will hold its second Hidden City Festival, hosting art shows and events at nine sites around the Philadelphia area. Hidden City Philadelphia was born out of its previous festival, held in 2009. Now a successful full-time online magazine, Hidden City also hosts tours and events, and boasts a developing Community Action program. The idea of the Hidden City Festival is to mount contemporary, site-based art installations in little-known or endangered sites throughout Philadelphia, preferably with some kind of connection to the city’s heritage. For the 2013 festival, which features taglines like “Ready, Set, Explore,” and “See the City Anew,” Hidden City is hoping to offer Philadelphians the opportunity to explore unique environments, view intriguing and original art, and visit parts of the city that might otherwise escape their notice, all while engaging with Philadelphia’s rich and diverse history. Hawthorne Hall’s unique facade Rabid Hands Art Collective uses abandoned spaces and their unique histories as inspiration I recently has the opportunity to visit Hawthorne Hall, one of the nine sites featured this year, for a preview showing. Hawthorne Hall, tucked inside an apartment block in Powelton, is home to a sprawling, walk-through installation piece created for the festival by Rabid Hands Art Collective. As a group, Rabid Hands is primarily interested in overtaking abandoned or underused locations with epic installations pieces. To do this, they invite many artists with a wide range of artistic practices to come and engage with the site, co-creating installations in a deeply collaborative process. Rabid Hands creates work using discarded and found materials inside unique architectural spaces. The goal is to have the art and the space itself frame and comment upon one another in ways not possible in traditional gallery spaces. A view of the main space in Hawthorne Hall A major inspiration for Rabid Hands’ transformation of Hawthorne Hall is the rich history of the space. Built in 1895, the Hall has been home to dozens of organizations over the years. Notable groups that have inhabited – and thus altered, modified, and left their charge upon space – include the Irish National Foresters, New Light National Baptist Church, and the Knights of Pythias. Unique moldings suggest the space may have also been home to a cabaret theater at one point. Each of these former tenants added to the space, either physically altering it or imbuing it with new meaning by their presence and the rituals they enacted within it. Rabid Hands is using this idea as a jumping-off point, hoping to emphasize these layers of history through their installations. To do this, the artists are forming The Society of Pythagoras,  a secret society much like ones formerly housed in the Hall. Each of the artists will take on a specific role and title within the society, and the pieces they create will reflect and play off of the secretive, ritualistic practices these kinds of societies engage in. Walking through the space, visitors will find themselves gradually initiated into the society as well, each setpiece serving as some unique kind of introduction or induction ceremony. Various instruments and sound installations will be a part of the completed installation Rabid Hands’ installation engages and melds with Hawthorne Hall The sprawling interior of Hawthorne Hall is an excellent example of wabi-sabi, an aesthetic concept originating in Japan that privileges the beauty of imperfection in nature and the inevitability of decay. Wabi-sabi places this more authentic aesthetic, with its many imperfections, over the manufactured or uniform. Hawthorne Hall is both beautiful and charged with history, in large part because it’s resplendent with swaths of rust, walls of chaotically textured chipping paint, expanses of crumbling wooden rafters, and stret

I got a lot of quick response with my last problem, so will try again. I watched Joe Zeh’s vid on installing & setting up Sketchup and determined i had set mine up incorrectly. Wanted to start fresh so i deleted all the Sketchup programs and files from my system. The last time i downloaded the program from Google and i spent several hours deleting tool bars and other junk that downloaded with the program.So. i went to the Trimble site (go to the source right). The first time i could not install the program and got this message “Failed to start application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem” Say what!!! just downloaded and could not install. Back to the drawing board so to speak. Tried twice more to download/install and both times only this file downloaded “Sketchup Wen.EXE” My end works ok as i had just installed an upgraded audio program.I would really like to give it one more chance. SO can anyone tell me where i can download a clean copy of Sketchup, no extra tool bars/unrelated junk etc.IMHO one of the main problems with the program is that no one bothered to develop a user manual and much of the documentation has been supplied by users. I also noticed that in many of the “HOW TO’S” the narrator tried to combine instructions for both the MAC and PC and that really confuses the issue. Even here you see a problem and start to read about it and find out it does not relate to your system. If not 2 forums users could help by stating “MAC Sketch UP Problem>>>>>>>>>)Looking for your feedback