Really? A month?

I can't believe that nearly a month has past since my last post! Incredible! I don't think this has happened in all the years I've been doing this.
Well, what's up! We went on a beach holiday on the 14th of September for a week. That was lovely.

 I left origami birds for the Fold the Flock project in Corolla.

photo credit: N.Scalin

We stayed in a lovely beach "cottage" that our DIL found through the internet. I wanted to stay there forever!

 The beach was beautiful and quite sparsely populated this time of year.

Our grand-girl loved the ocean and the sand. One gigantic sand box to play in, right!

Update on everything!

 For American thanksgiving day, we went to Avon, a hamlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was really peaceful. This is a view of a sand pile that was next to our car, it was vertical but the lines give the illusion that it's a flat plane going off into the distance, right? So interesting.

 This is the view of the sun setting on the sound from our balcony.

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I'm nearing the end of my third year long daily project. This will be the last one that I do. I'm happy that this is coming to an end. I'll continue to make Mail Art, maybe even daily, but I won't have to scan and post daily which will be a good thing for me.







In this series of Mail Art pieces, I've dug around in the unused rubber stamp box. These are old friends and I'm happy to be using them again.









I'd forgotten what fun it is to make these little narratives with rubber stamps.











It's like visiting with old friends.

OBX

Our trip to the Outer Banks (OBX) of North Carolina was brief (an over night) but lovely. The weather was perfect and we got to walk on the beach twice, looking for sea glass and shells, enjoying the breeze and the sound of the waves. The sky was so blue with puffy little clouds. More photos on my other blog, if you need more sea and sand. We went to an old haunt of ours, where we'd get fudge and walk in and out of shops. It's now an antique "mall" with lots of little antique shops, a children's dance studio, a hair cutting place, some offices. Ah, memories. And of course, the birds. Here's a little fellow by him/herself. In Manteo, where we judge the OBX marathon art competition, we ate lunch at Full Moon Cafe, which we recommend. Really tasty food and lovely umbrellas!