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The current City Hall building is a near-50-year-old structure that has served the city well but, in its current state, is functionally obsolete. Built in 1969, the current City Hall requires major renovations that are complicated by the presence of friable asbestos and the way the electrical and mechanical systems were installed.
On October 3, 2017, Virginia Beach city council unanimously approved a resolution to proceed with the design of a new city hall building. The new three-story structure adjacent to the current city hall, between Buildings 1 and 2, is under construction and progressing well.
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Photography - Craig McClure
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Working on the page facing the tags I made a while back, I created another small piece using strips of paper and fabric, this time using a paper that reminds me of tree bark and a blue one that has dark lines running through it, making me think of woodgrain. On the page itself I very lightly made some sweeping marks, again thinking about wood grain, but also the flow of words - my inspiration photo features handmade paper, a dip ink pen, handmade papers tied up with string, calligraphy and a wax seal so in my mind I'm mapping it out in a way - wood, paper (folded and tied letters, book page structures), mark-making (age rings on the wood plus the woodgrain itself), calligraphy, writing, and privacy (seals and string). I think maybe I will have to actually map it out on paper or I may get muddled...
The piece on the right was inspired by the wrapped tags, with metal hardware emulating from the reinforcements around the holes at the top of the tags, and an fme silk/cotton/lace piece inspired by the wrapped bands on the paper tags.
This page needs something else but I'm not sure what - I've been doing my calligraphy warm-up strokes so maybe some of those?
This part of the grid used larger insulators then the typical poles in the utility. I think the large pylere post insulators were used to protect salt deposits carried by the wind from the nearby ocean.
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Current progress on the husband's Berkshire Pullover from Weekend Knitting. I love knitting with bulky yarn because it goes by so fast! Hopefully I can avoid knitting ADD with this project. I am about to add the third ball/skein of yarn!
I frogged the bottom because the rolled stockinette hem was SO irritating, and I substituted five rows of 3x1 ribbing =) Much better!
(The color looks a lot different from this photo...my apologies for stinky indoor lighting at night!)
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
After a lifetime of not touching my hair with chemicals, I, on a whim, decided to walk into a salon and ask them to make me blond.
Admittedly, I do not feel like myself and I'm not sure that I will keep the color, but on the bright side, the bleaching process progressed my dreads by months... maybe six months.
When my dread journey began, my hair was VERY healthy. It had never been touched by chemicals, nor had it been treated with heat very often.
This really damaged my hair and made it super course, So many of my old fly aways are moving into the dreads now. And so many of my loose ends are dreading up as well.
At the salon, they used bleach and color, but did not use any shampoos or conditioners.
what to do....
What to do...
Every time I see my reflection, I hear myself gasp involuntarily.
I am resigned to keeping this color for a month. I'll decide what to do when the time comes to touch up my roots. I might dye it back to brown.
"You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done." - Kahlil Gibran
One of the flying geese made for the Giant Swoon. The center is 19.5". Color 1 is a dark teal that is in the center fabric. As much as I don't love the idea of making a black, tan, gold and teal quilt (shudder), I do love these fabrics together...even if they are batiks.