Archive for the 'Regional' Category

A Trayside Handbook of Marbling

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

This weekend was filled with great projects.  First, the Greater Cincinnati Calligraphy Guild meeting presentation was on flipping our perceptions of background, foreground, and mid-ground.    Calligrapher Karen McMannon was the presenter.  As always, she did a great job of combining instruction with hands-on activities.
Toward the end of the meeting, Ann Woods showed off copies of [...]

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Your chance to name an owl

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Susan, an educator for Raptor, Inc. is taking suggestions for a name for the newest education bird: a barn owl. Barn owls were pretty common where I grew up, but are not so common in Cincinnati, so it’s a treat to be able to not only see this pretty boy, but to know [...]

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Curiousities

Monday, February 5th, 2007

This weekend I was searching for inspiration and decided to visit the Behringer-Crawford museum in Covington, Kentucky. I had visited the museum a couple of years ago and knew they had a selection of oddities (such as a stuffed two-headed calf). I was pleasantly surprised to find that they were in [...]

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Crystal Balls (tee hee)

Monday, October 30th, 2006

I’m not too sure I’ll be going to the Crystal Ball put on by HP-Ohio. The group is pretty established, and I’ve never felt like going to one of their meetings all by myself. But, I think that it’s my duty to support all things Potter. If the event is anything like this one, it [...]

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