December Smash Book Challenge

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1. Favorite Christmas Cookie - Make your favorite Christmas Cookie and take photos of it to put on your page

2. Favorite Christmas Memory - Share a Christmas memory from now or your Childhood

3. Something that was on your Christmas wish list as a child- write about what was on your Christmas wish list when you were a child

4. Something on your Christmas wish list now - Make a page of your Christmas wish list with photos

5. Your Christmas Tree - Post a photo of your Christmas Tree(s)

6. Favorite Christmas Decoration - Take pictures of your favorite Christmas decorations or find them online and in magazines then make a page with them

7. Favorite Christmas candy/candies - Take pictures of your favorite candy/candies or find them online and in magazines then make a page with them. Or put the wrappers on the page.

8. Dream Christmas location - Write about a place you would love to travel to spend Christmas. Include pictures if you can find any.

9. Favorite Christmas TV Show(s) and Movie(s) - Make a page about your favorite Christmas TV Shows and Movies and write about why you picked them

10. Christmas Tradition while growing up - Writing letters to Santa? Setting out cookies and milk for Santa? Christmas caroling? Make a page telling about your Christmas while growing up and add pictures if you can find them

11. Christmas Tradition now - Make a page about your Christmas tradition now with photos

12. Favorite Christmas Songs - List your favorite Christmas songs. Write out the words to your favorite Christmas song. Post photos of CD covers from the singers who sang/sing your favorite Christmas songs

13. Family Member's wish list - Write down ideas on what to get your family for Christmas

14. Photos of your family opening presents - Take a before photo of all of the wrapped presents around the tree. Take photos of family opening presents.

15. Recipe for a dish you want to serve at Christmas dinner - Find a recipe of something you want to make a Christmas dinner. Or write about a dish you make that has been in your family for years

16. Photos of your Christmas dinner - Take photos of you and your family eating Christmas dinner

17. Keep track of what present you got and who it was from so you can thank them.

I want to go back to Washington DC.

Back in April 2011, I went to Washington DC. There were things I didn't get to see that I wish I had. I am going to make a list: 


National Archives - Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights

National Archives (Wikimedia Commons)

 National Zoo - from the official web site: “We are a 163-acre zoological park set amid Rock Creek Park in the heart of Washington, D.C. Open to the public 364 days a year, we are home to 2,000 individual animals of nearly 400 different species. Our best known residents are our giant pandas, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang.”

Lion at the National Zoo (Wikimedia Commons)

Library of Congress - from the official web site: “The Library of Congress occupies three buildings on Capitol Hill. The buildings are remarkable public spaces and public works of art. Each is named after a President of the United States who has a strong connection with the creation of Congress’s library.”

Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress (Wikimedia Commons)

  

Ford’s Theatre - from the official web site: “The site of the April 14, 1865, assassination of President Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre holds a unique place in United States history. The theatre has enthralled millions of visitors since its reopening in 1968, and it is one of the most visited sites in the nation’s capital.”

Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theater (Wikimedia Commons)

 National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of the American Indian (Wikimedia Commons)

Here are a few more:

• Arlington National Cemetery
• Air Force Memorial
• Jefferson Memorial
• National Aquarium
• Union Station
• US Capitol
• White House
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Washington Photo Safari

I am sure there are more places I would like to visit after I figured out what they are I can make another post.


I have been following several accounts on Twitter because I loved being in Washington DC: 

• wmata (DC Metro updates) 
• washingtondc 
• 14krestaurant
•  yelpdc
•  welovedc
•  capitalweather  

Here are some links on Washington DC I like using to look up things to do in DC:

• http://msqrealty.com/ - a place to look up real estate properties in Washington DC. I was hoping I would see some rentals there but I haven’t had the chance to look into the web site much.
• http://www.welovedc.com/ - from the web site: “We Love DC.  You think there’d need to be more to band together a group of writers, but this is our common element.  We Love DC.  Sure, we think DC dates the wrong person once in a while, and may or not have worn something that we thought was pretty much atrocious, but We Love DC anyway.  DC has been many things for us; it has been home and shelter, adventure and retreat, love and war.  Here we all are, to give it our best.”
• http://washington.org/ - Official Tourist Site of Washington DC

I can't wait to begin blogging here

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Hello! I am so glad I created this blog. I made this blog to write about the things that I love to Discover. Create. Inspire.

Discover - I love discovering new things to do, places to see, crafts to make. I love creating ideas for things and sharing them.

Create - I LOVE photography. I take photos every chance I get. When I can't take my Pentax K-r with me, I take my Nikon Coolpix L12 or my iPod Touch 5 so I always have a camera with me. I mostly take photos of landscapes, nature, zoo animals, and travel destinations. I also love doing arts and crafts. I have been collecting things to make into a collage.
  
Inspire - I love discovering new things to do, different ways to take photos, places to see, crafts to make. I love creating ideas for things and sharing them. I was told by someone that my photography inspires them. This inspired me to take more photos.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I look forward to sharing things with you and hopefully I will inspire you :o)