I recently spent two weeks in the United States. I began my trip by meeting my friend Mary in Chicago. Today I am going to tell you about Day 1 and Day 3. There will be a separate post for Day 2 which was Frank Lloyd Wright day!
We started our first day by driving downtown to visit the Hull House. There was a great view of the Chicago skyline from outside the house.
Chicago is on Lake Michigan and we were able to get some great photos of the lake.
And this was the view back into the city.
The Airbnb we stayed in was very close to the Blue Line. In fact it was just beyond the back yard!
On our third day together we took the Blue Line downtown.
We went to the Flower Show at Macys. It wasn't a flower show in the sense that we think of them in the UK. There were just amazing displays of flowers in the store.
Some parts of the building was amazing especially the ceiling in this atrium.
We had a wander downtown and went to the Chicago Architectural Center.
There was a model of Chicago and an exhibition about the tallest buildings in the world.
The river in Chicago.
I didn't take as many photos as I would usually do, because I had visited Chicago with Roger in 2017 when I took an enormous amount of photos. If you haven't already seen them they are here, here, here and here. A lot - I know!
In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.
Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.
Valerie, Mary & I have a conference call each month when we discuss our Living Your Word group and ideas for questions and activities. We decided that we would each take the word How for H. Valerie has written a wonderful post on How? Do click on the link to go and read it.
I thought I had taken a photo before I started working on the page - but obviously not! Anyway I'm sure you can tell what it looked like.
Not only am I trying to use my washi tape, I'm also trying to use up my scrapbooking stash. I wanted large letters but in this set I had already used the W. I altered the M to make it fit! I drew round the letters with an orange pen to help highlight the letters.
I loved the questions that Valerie asked but haven't had time to think about them let alone answer them. I was away for 2 weeks and when I got back I had a workshop to attend, a hospital appointment and two days of stewarding an exhibition.
So I decided I would take Valerie's questions and stick them into my journal. This way I can keep coming back to them - and you never know I might answer them at some point. It would be really good to do so.
I finished off by drawing round the paper strips with different colour pens.
One of the questions Valerie asked was: 'What do I believe?' Here's a video that tells you some of the things I believe.
Join Mary Brack, Valerie Sjodin and I in our Facebook group where we are giving participants the opportunity to live out an A-Z of their own word throughout 2019. Mary explains what we are doing in her blog post. We don't like a lot of rules, so we will have suggestions and options to spark creativity, and to help in recording and exploring our word’s meaning in visual and fun ways. We will each blog about our experiences and our art.
I have recently been to the United States for two weeks and I will be doing blog posts about the various places I visited for all you armchair travellers.
But first I thought I'd share some photos of the various things that caught my eye to do with pattern, shape & design during the 3 days I was in Chicago. They are shown in the order I saw them rather than curated as collections.
No descriptions. Just photos!
I hope you enjoyed the photos. What things catch your eye when you are out and about?
