Colored Ice Balls

I saw this fabulous picture of balloon ice balls on pinterest. Sounded easy enough to do, so I tried it. 

Pinterest ice balls:

Fran's ice balls:

Don't you think I nailed it?!?!
There must have been a step they forgot to write into the directions. Mine didn't have that sparkly shine to them. They had cracks in all of them, and one of them broke completely in half. 

Pink Slip Lounge

The National Rural Electric Association had its Annual Meeting in Nashville this year. John and I flew down on Friday night (Feb 28th). It turned out to be a great time. We stayed at the Preston Hotel by the airport, and it was quite the trendy place! Each evening there was live entertainment in the Pink Slip Lounge -- of course it was jazz and country music.

An interesting piece of art was this "Pink Slip". A local artist makes sculptures out of crayons, and was commissioned to make this pink slip for the hotel. It is quite interesting to look at because it is made entirely from pink crayons with yellow wrappers on the crayons.

The pink bust part of the slip is unwrapped crayons with the pointy end out.  

I think this is very unique and I would have loved to see other sculptures this artist made!