miscellaneous monday

one of the happiest events of spring is the return of the hummingbirds. our feeders are new this year. we made sure to get the feeders that have perches. the birds seem to like the perches as they are able to rest while they dine. having had a feeder with a perch previously, it has been our experience that the birds linger when they have a place to alight. we hung our feeders by the dining room windows friday evening. saturday, while eating lunch, we looked up and there they were! the hummingbirds were having lunch too. the three that visit on a regular basis have returned. we are watching for more. observing the hummingbirds and the other birds that come to the farm never grows boring or tiresome. each sighting is a delightful, whimsical surprise.  do you feed hummingbirds and the other birds? what is your favorite, if you have one?

solitude sunday

we spend time with a book on solitude sunday. i am spending time with shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks by keith houston. the punctuation mark read about today was the @ symbol; denoting the word at. it began life as a pricing tool "at the rate of"; as in "3 apples @ 50 cents each". it became very famous when the internet became the world wild web and the @ symbol was used in web addresses as in "thewhimseyproject@gmail.com".

silly saturday

first grade crazy hair day!

photo friday

enjoying the view.

thoughtful thursday

pope john XXIII:

concern yourself not with what you failed in but what with is still possible to do.

whimsical wednesday

we are tearing paper for whimsical wednesday. tear paper? yes, tear paper. tear as much as you wish in whatever shape or size that appeals to you. what to do with it when you have torn it? recycle it, use it in an art project, homemade confetti! the possibilities are endless. share your paper tearing experience with the whimsey project.

my torn paper to be used in an art journal.

trivia tuesday

quite interesting @qikipedia:

over the course of about a mile, the carrier pigeon is faster than the fax machine.

miscellaneous monday

the metropolitan art museum offers free art books online.  take a peek:

https://mymodernmet.com/free-books-online-met-museum/

solitude sunday

we spend time with a book on solitude sunday. my time with shady characters, the secret life of punctuation, symbols and other typographical marks by keith houston continues. today's chapter detailed the history of the ampersand, the symbol for the word and. it's origins lie in the greek word for and: et.

silly saturday

from funkidjokes,com:

Q: what do you call a rooster that wakes you up in the morning?
A: an alarm cluck!

photo friday

thank goodness it's friday!

thoughtful thursday

claude monet:

i must have flowers, always and always.

whimsical wednesday

it's whimsical wednesday! we are folding a single sheet of paper into a wee book. my sister taught me how to do this, even provided a folded piece of paper as an example! but i have never put the instructions into action. today is the day.  use pretty paper after practicing on sheet of copy paper or a page out of a magazine. an internet search found the following folding instructions:

http://www.laurenstringer.com/uploads/2/5/6/4/25641572/make_a_six-page_book_out_of_one_sheet_of_paper.pdf

my efforts included a large flyer page, a pocket calendar page and a notepad page for small, medium and large books.

trivia tuesday

from postcrossing.com:

the postcard exchange program currently has 724,922 participants with 46,408,954 postcards received to members in 213 countries. and counting...

miscellaneous monday

it's april, mid-april to be precise! for miscellaneous monday let's check out a day or two from our "whimsical moment of the day" notebook. a whimsical moment notebook is any notebook, calendar, index cards, whatever in which to record a daily whimsical moment. if you haven't started keeping a daily whimsical moment notebook, today is a great day to begin!

february 9th i wrote that i looked out the window and saw a kitty sitting in the birdbath. that was funny because the kitty looked like she was perched on a throne! on march 5th i wrote the sound of tape being unrolled. you know that funny sound you hear when cellophane tape gets unrolled from the dispenser. it was a long piece of tape so i laughed at the lingering unrolling sound.  if you don't know what i mean about the sound of tape being unrolled from the dispenser, dig out your tape and unroll a long piece to hear it for yourself! 

solitude sunday

we spend time with a book on solitude sunday. my time with shady characters; the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks by keith houston. today's chapter highlighted the octothorpe aka the #, the pound sign, hashtag. the octothorpe has it roots in the symbols for money. 

silly saturday

when horses frolic!

photo friday

buc, buc, buc...

thoughtful thursday

master sheng-yen:

there is no need to be worried about having flaws because knowing we have them can help us to improve!

whimsical wednesday

we're playing a memory game for whimsical wednesday!

quick! without looking! list five items on your refrigerator!

here's mine:
1. photo of my house.
2. recipe of a drink
3. receipts of plants purchased for the landscape
4. kid art depicting a bowl of spaghetti
5. a pineapple shaped magnet from hawaii

now you! post your list for whimsical wednesday!

trivia tuesday

from quite interesting @qikipedia:

a group of pugs is called a grumble.

miscellaneous monday

delancy place is a website that offers book excerpts.  the site offers subscriptions to have daily offerings to appear in the email inbox. or the book snippets can be read at the website. it's really interesting to read a small part of a book each day. sometimes that is enough and sometimes i want to read the book. perhaps fellow whimsees would enjoy doing the same! follow the link to delancy place:

https://delanceyplace.com/

solitude sunday

we spend time with a book on solitude sunday. i am reading shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols and other typographical marks by keith houston.  the chapter just completed detailed the history of the interrobang; the punctuation mark that combines the question mark and the exclamation mark.

silly saturday

caption this picture for silly saturday!

photo friday

my wassily kandinsky or jackson pollock; whichever you prefer.

thoughtful thursday

vincent van gogh:

great things are not by impulse but come by a series of small acts brought together.

whimsical wednesday

it's the first whimsical wednesday of april! our day to work on our own projects! what did you work on? share your efforts with the whimsey project!

i'll be practicing a few origami folds that were left undone from my origami folding session several months ago.  also, i'll be doing paint blending exercises from an online art journaling course i am taking. i have been putting off the exercises for what reason i have no clue. however, today is the day i blend!

trivia tuesday

from quite interesting @qikipedia:

burning mountain in australia is a natural coal fire that has been burning for 6,000 years.

miscellaneous monday

easter was also april fool's day. it would be fun to declare that it snowed on easter and then exclaim, "april fool's day"! but it was no joke. it snowed on easter. the weather provides the opportunity to practice many important aspects of being human: patience, flexibility, preparedness, managing disappointment, humor and resilience. the lesson of weather, if we pay attention, is to work with conditions as they exist instead of working against them; especially when dealing with conditions over that which we have no control.

solitude sunday

happy easter!