Las Vegas at Night

This is the view of Las Vegas that I had from my room at the Bellagio Hotel, which is now my favorite hotel! :)

Bellagio's Hotel in Las Vegas has this beautiful fountain, which is choreographed to music. This fountain is rated as one of the 10 best fountains in the world, so I figured it would qualify as scenic. The fountain "danced" to different songs every 15 minutes from 3:00 PM to midnight while I was there in May, 2009. My daughter and I watched the fountain about 12 times from our room, tuning to the channel of the TV that piped the fountains music into the room.

I asked the Bellagio staff for a great room for photography, and they gave me this room, which looked out on to the Hotel Paris Paris (with it's version of the Eiffel Tower) perfectly framed by the fountain. Bally's is to the left of the fountain, and Planet Hollywood is to the right of Paris Paris.

Sometimes it is worth it to upgrade your room, especially if you are a photographer.

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Butterfly Bling

I have a minor addiction to costume jewelry, and therefore a small collection. I started my collection when I was in High School, and so now I have a handful of "vintage signed designer pieces" that are actually worth quite a bit more then I paid for them. $5 -> $50! (In light of how investments in the stock market are going, I haven't done to badly with my costume jewelry, which has the added benefit of making me smile at all my bling.) I don't wear the costume jewelry, most of it is way too gaudy, but I display some of pieces in a shadow box on my wall.

My children used to ask me all the time if we were rich and if they were "real diamonds". I think they still hold out hope that some of the pieces actually have "real" diamonds, and I just don't know it. (Don't I wish) They want me to take the case to Antique Roadshow. My children were probably some of the few first graders who knew rubies are red, emeralds are green...

I thought I would share this vintage green butterfly pin to celebrate St. Patricks Day, and I thought it might look nice against this little plate that I have. The plate was "made Expressly for Niemen Marcus", and I got them at a rummage sale a long time ago. I got 4 such plates, if they originally had cups I never saw them.

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Bundled Up I Heart Faces No. 9

The photo challenge at I Heart Faces this week is "bundled up". Hundred of photographers will submit a photo showing someone bundled up. I expect many of this weeks entries will have babies and children in snow suits.

My entry is one for the teenagers! This is one of my 'babies' bundled up in a quilt after tubing on the Little Wolf Lake, Michigan, summer of 2009. It can get very cold in between turns in the water, so I bring the quilt along. (Towels get soaked pretty quickly, the quilt can really warm you up.) We were still on the boat, (not that you can see it!); probably a cousin or sibling is being dragged through the water at the highest speed the boat can muster. The glow on Anthony's face makes me smile still. If only our teenagers were always this happy.


The I Heart Faces challenge this week is "Bundled up".  (I was entry 23 of 705).



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Jump for Joy!

When you freeze the frame,
for a moment we fly...

I took this photo to illustrate the action "Jump" for a flash card set for children with special needs. In the end, I don't think this was the exact image we chose to use, but my helper really had a great attitude, especially as I tried to line up (frame?) her jump with the yellow panel for the best contrast.


Click in to see the expression on my son as he goes for height!


My daughter can achieve an inner joy - close your eyes and enjoy the sensation.


Tom will jump in the water this way several times a season - I feel it is his happy jump where he is running to embrace the water.


Seven in the air! One of the inspired gym teachers at my children's school does a special jump rope section that the children just love. One of the challenges is to get the most children jumping at the same time. [One of my challenges is to get the shot at the right moment when the children and the rope are at the best position.]

The I Heart Faces challenge this week is called Jump for Joy. This week we were allowed 5 photos. I am humbled by some of the shots you see on the site - my indoor photos are only snapshots. Unfortunately, you can't link to I heart Faces to see more jump for joy photo moments.

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Valentine Vignette

I love how many of the "show and tell" people, and decorator types decorate for holidays.

 
 
I like collecting trinkets, and do (ask my husband). However, with four active children, I don't have the energy to decorate entire room or a house. So, I decided to decorate this corner seasonally. Ha. That worked. This photograph is from decorating in February 2008. In 2008, the best photo of the children that I could find for the frame included Santa hats  :) The corner never got decorated for Valentines Day in Feb 2009, and Feb 2010.

I realize that this photo is late for Valentines day 2010, but only by about two weeks, so I thought better late then never. And since I wanted to create a post for Show and Tell, this was one of the few ready and available photos I had.

About the trinkets: The red picture frame is real glass! I loved it when I saw it in 2007, and waited for the 1/2 off sale after Valentines Day to buy it. The three matching plates are from a set of four plates, bought at the same 1/2 off sale. The Glass paperweight and the glass strawberry I got rummage sales. The vase with the candy canes is a Boda (?) vase I got as a gift. I think the wild plate with the hearts on red was $1 at a dollar store. And the glass candy canes are one of my favorite treasures, which will hopefully be the subject of some future show and tell with great pictures to show them off.
Decorating the corner took time - tying the heart ornament on with a cool bow took me over an hour alone. I had to remove the shelf, find nylon string, figure out a method to get the heart to hang centered, etc. Oh well. Now I have a goal for other Show and Tells - Decorating the shelf differently.

(Someday in the future, I hope to change the valences that hang in the photo. Or at least in future photos arrange the valences out of the photo.)

 

 

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