tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66839785183291858972024-03-13T23:34:09.521-07:00Altered by the SeaFollow me through the daily adventures of a mixed-up media artist - Living by the ocean here in beautiful Morro Bay, California, working in a small town library up the coast in Cambria, and gathering detritus by the sea to create art.Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.comBlogger1678125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-44795716770021636262015-08-06T14:18:00.003-07:002015-08-06T14:31:14.567-07:00Our Beloved Erin<span style="font-size: x-small;">It is with heavy hearts that we post to tell you that Erin Renee Perry lost her battle with pancreatic cancer at 9:13pm PDT on August 5th, 2015. Her passing was peaceful and she was surrounded by family, friends and love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We want to thank everyone who made such a difference in her life, helping her to leave this world knowing she was loved, cared for and appreciated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thank you, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Margot Silk Forrest </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Bronwyn Ember </span><br />
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This is a wonderful sarong that</div>
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I love the pattern and the colours </div>
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Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-41036059977371916322015-07-08T06:00:00.000-07:002015-07-08T20:04:23.645-07:00More Fun from Pinterest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lots more mixed media fun from Pinterest</div>
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A fun time Friday afternoon, shopping with Jenny. </div>
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A few pens and supplies I'd been looking for... </div>
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..a nice looking pencil box and and rubber for carving stamps.</div>
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Very helpful , friendly staff and good prices!</div>
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Will definitely be back again!</div>
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Best Green Chili Soup in Morro Bay</div>
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Great way to spent a Sunday afternoon.</div>
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A little more political incorrectness. but somehow it's hard to get away from cowboys ans Indians in the 1950's. I loved my tepee and would spend a large part of July and August camping in the backyard over night! Enjoyed the bow and arrows too - and I never put my eye out - honestly, that's not why I wore glasses!!!<br />
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A 60 year old bridge score card!</div>
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Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-39094845774926298182015-06-29T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-29T09:36:13.967-07:00Great Journaling Spots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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of sketching, writing, sipping, sight-seeing and dreaming.</div>
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No better way to spend the day!</div>
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Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-7545301136525725192015-06-28T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-28T06:00:01.034-07:00Life on the Coast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Extra large lure on a shop a block and a half away</div>
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from the sea in here Morro Bay! Now that would catch a BIG fish!!!</div>
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Have a great weekend.</div>
Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-54179939154129548302015-06-26T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-26T10:32:23.426-07:00Fantastic Toy Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remember<b style="font-style: italic;"> Wagon Train</b>? I never missed it - the covered wagons, the wagon master, the scout, the Indians? The wild wild west! I'd put on my cowboy duds and sit glued to the old black and white TV set. and when it wasn't on I'd play with my my little "Wagon Train" set. Wow - we surley went for cowboys and Indians back in the late '50's, early '60's - never realizing how much of it was<i> so </i>politically incorrect. Still, a fond memory of childhood.<br />
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<br />Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-50920244426337433602015-06-24T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-24T06:00:07.598-07:00Some Time Off - Back Soon!<br />
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Mouse guarding the studio table!</div>
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Have had a rough time with chemo side effects the last week or so and have spend most my time napping (and reading art books and mags). Starting to feel a bit better and hoping to be back in the studio soon and woeking on some great projects. But for now, just regaining strength and energy. I'll post here and faceBook while I'm back up to snuff and let you know what's going on. In the meantime - nothing like a picture of the late, great, beautiful Mousie to keep our spirits up!<br />
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<br />Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-40752800135760928822015-06-20T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-20T10:10:10.002-07:00Journal Progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First efforts,..</div>
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More rubber stamping in different colours.</div>
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A final few stampings, and the daily journal entries<br />
stuck in the back of the library card pockets behind the vintage photos.<br />
<br />Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-65927705400066824572015-06-18T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-18T06:00:00.841-07:00More Thrift Store Finds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A rather nice haul at a couple of thrift stores in Cumbria earlier this week. </div>
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Including a copy of CPS that I didn't have and picked up for only $.50!</div>
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Lots of wonderful vintage cabinet cards and </div>
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carte de viste for use in the current journal.</div>
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And this retro wooden top in faded primary colours!</div>
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<u><span style="color: #444444;">Love the dapper dude at the bottom left!</span></u></div>
Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-34746233757474870352015-06-16T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-16T08:12:26.150-07:00Pinterest Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beautiful example of various types of calligraphy.</div>
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And vintage diagrams ans compasses.</div>
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The Cayucos Pier bafore reconstruction on a beautiful late Spring day/</div>
Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-67175687205476624862015-06-12T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-12T06:00:01.889-07:00Favourite Toy Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every weekend when I was in elementary school we'd watch T<b><i>he</i></b> <i style="font-weight: bold;">Shirley Temple Story Hour. </i>It was akways a little disconcerting to see her in TV in her old movies from the 1930's and then see her all grown up reading fairy tales to her own children. One year for my birthday I received the Shirley Temple doll complete with the costumes from<i><b> CaptainJanuar</b></i>y, <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Little Colonel , </i>and<i style="font-weight: bold;"> Rebecca of Sinnybrook Farm - </i>all tomboy roles, you notice. I had a lot of fun with this and acting out the stories to go along with the different outfits.<br />
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My friend Susan and I went thrift store shopping over the weekend - with my now limited energy we only got to two of them. But really scored with this hand full of books from my elementary school days, including, 3-count 'em-3, <b style="font-style: italic;">Happy Hollisters</b> and a baseball book. And all for a mere $5.00.<br />
Guess what I'll be reading this week?!<br />
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<br />Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-86379369365124867862015-06-08T06:00:00.000-07:002015-06-08T06:00:06.370-07:00More Journal Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Thanks, Dad </i> - </span>Altered 78 record album</div>
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This is an altered book that I made out of a vintage 78 record album. </div>
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Here are the spreads from inside, filled with remembrances </div>
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Thanks to all who served on that historic day.</div>
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Envelopes with maps, glassine envelopes that </div>
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Love these vintage travel posters featuring Cornwall.</div>
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We spent some time there in September of</div>
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To get a daily dose of Cornish views go<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dreamsofcornwall?fref=nf" target="_blank"> here</a>.</div>
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Lovely photography of the beauty spots of Cornwall.</div>
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My doll house! I was 7 almost 8 the Christmas I found this in the Sears wish book and then under the tree. This was a little before the cowboy and civil war sets. I loved rearranging the rooms and making up stories for the doll house family. Mine was the one on the right - The Colonial Mansion. Lots of prime playtime and make-believe! Definitely one of my favourite childhood memories.<br />
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Have been trolling faceBook, Pinterest and my saved files</div>
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From stenciled numbers and letters on weathered wood...</div>
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of ephemera, don't get lost in there! There's so much to find!</div>
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Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683978518329185897.post-60174128395608939732015-05-25T06:00:00.000-07:002015-05-25T06:00:01.408-07:00Decoration Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 21px;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">A House Divided</span></span> 10x8"</div>
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Decoration Day received its name from the laying of flowers on the graves of the fallen <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">soldiers</span> during the Civil War.<br />
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In 1868 General John A.Logan issued a proclamation that "Decoration Day" should be observed nationwide. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day#cite_note-3"></a></sup>It was observed for the first time on May 30 of the same year; the date was chosen because it was <i>not</i> the anniversary of a battle.<br />
The northern states quickly adopted the holiday; Michigan made "Decoration Day" an official state holiday in 1871 and by 1890 every northern state followed suit.<br />
The earliest Confederate Memorial Day celebrations were simple, somber occasions for veterans and their families to honor the day and attend to local cemeteries. At its Decoration Day on April 25, 1866, Columbus, Mississippi commemorated both the Union and Confederate casualties buried in its cemetery.<br />
Following WWI, Decoration Day became Memorial Day and has been ever since a day to honour all those who have served in the military.Erin in Morro Bayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837848620673552009noreply@blogger.com2