Friday I went to the Children's Museum in Indianapolis to see the King Tut exhibit that I had purchased tickets for with another friend. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take photos in this exhibit but I could take photos anywhere else. Forgot then, of course! I do have this one of the outside of the museum that I just love - the dinosaurs peeking in! There is another view on the other side of the building that I didn't get a pic of with a dinasaur "crashing through to the outside". Inside is a ship model up on blocks from the Stars Wars Clones movie. There is a glass tower by Dale Chihuly in a prominent location and the big water clock right in the center, but we kept missing the half-hour and hourly water deluge.

There were lots of cool things in the King Tut exhibit but I was disappointed that there was not a single part of the actual mummy tomb, such as one of the Sarcophagus'. I guess for some reason I thought we'd see the actual mummy but not even the face mask was in the exhibit. There was a bed used by Tut and a chair - he must have been a small man judging from the sizes of both. One of the jars that held his organs was there. There are 4 jars, one holding the liver, the stomach, the intestines, and the lungs. The heart was left in the body. Jewelry on the body was shown, including some gold sandals. We had a great time there and looking at other exhibits.


My son moved in this weekend so I've been pretty busy going through things and trying to organize. I spent some time looking at exterior doors today as I need to replace the one in the basement where he will eventually end up. Right now I have to get everything out of that room and then wash and paint. Even so, I've tatted a bit. This is the continuing of edgings in Sharon's book. She shows a simple ring and chain edging first. I was trying to empty shuttles so I started a second one and decided to join it so that it made a circle motif.


This is the next edging, a flower edging, which requires 2 shuttles. There are actually supposed to be six rings in the bigger flower but I was having trouble fitting five so I just left it at that. I haven't blocked it yet and in fact, I'm still tatting on it. We just had some babies born in the family recently and one was a girl. I'm thinking of making the hanky bonnet and using this for the trim. It's so pretty!

Well, almost midnight so I best be getting to bed!