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Katie Pertiet: Stamped Blocks No. 22 Brushes and Stamps; Watery Photo Masks No. 01; Watery Photo Masks No. 02; Gator Crossing Solids Paper Pack; Photo Clusters No. 25; Metal Alphabet No. 01; Flossy Stitches No. 02; Basic Journal Spots (recolored); Drop Shadows Style Collection

Andrea Victoria: Breeze Solid Paper Pack

Pattie Knox: Brad Bonanza No. 03: Digital Fasteners

Cassie Jones: How'd They Do That? No. 13: Bending Shadows

Font: King

Journaling: After leaving the street market, we toured the Mucha Museum near Wenceslas Square. Mucha was a prominent figure in the Czech Art Nouveau movement and bolstered national spirit with his patriotic banners. He also designed posters for Sarah Bernhardt.

Then we went on to Wenceslas Square which really isn’t a square at all but a wide boulevard anchored at one end by the National Museum and a statue of St. Wenceslas on horseback surveying the scene. We stopped for a Coke Light and fries break at Mickey D’s to the tune of $15!

Wenceslas Square has been center stage for several important events in Czech history. The creation of the Czech state was celebrated there in 1918; the Soviets suppressed huge popular demonstrations there in 1968; and more than 300,000 Czechs and Slovaks gathered there to claim their freedom in 1989. During the 1968 demonstrations, the facade of the National Museum was pockmarked with Soviet bullets. In defiance of their Communist bosses, the masons who repaired the damage purposely mismatched their patches. 05.24.11

On the walk back to our hotel from Wenceslas Square, we saw one of the stranger sights from our trip: a store front containing a fish bowl of sorts, where customers dangled their legs in the water so that the tiny fish could nibble the dead skin on their legs and feet. Eeeww!