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At Yellow Dot Shop, my new focus is on Art and hand-made items. The photo above was taken during a foggy morning by the Potomac River last week. The fog helped to bring the middle ground into sharper view. Moments like this have to be caught while they last.   When I was moving out of my Winter-time shop on Mt. Vernon Avenue, I decided that it was too much to store and carry all those books, records and CDs. If you carry a collection, you have to commit to it, and are suddenly buying more items, then storing them...

Are you ready for Valentine's Day? At Yellow Dot Shop I have lots to choose from for your Valentine's Day plans, including cards, wrapping paper, bags, framed art and lovely jewelry. See the collection by clicking the green button.   Art Show Open House Friday, February 25, 2022 4 - 7pm At the end of February, Friday the 25th, you are welcomed at my last Art Show Open House in my Mt. Vernon Avenue location. We have original mosaics by Alexandria legend Nina Tisara, glowing garden prints, framed and ready to hang by photographer Steven Halperson, and oil paintings of...

Yellow Dot Shop is having an Art Show Open House in its Shop in Del Ray! Please join us on Friday, January 28th from 5 to 8pm. All are invited for a bit of free wine and munchies.   We are showing art by four artists. My old friend Ingrid Matuszewski will have two of her smaller 6 inch square paintings on display, framed in elegant white frames. Ingrid has been painting for a number of years with a lovely loose expressionistic style, in oil. I have been following her progress and attended one of her shows. You can see...

I have exciting news! The Shop has moved into a retail space in the Del Ray section of Alexandria, on the main shopping street, Mt. Vernon Avenue. The front room has the Shop with books, posters, jewelry, greeting cards and t-shirts on display. I am installing an art-hanging system for framed art. The plan is to have Friday happy hour art events to showcase a chosen artist's work. The back room is being used as production space for the Shop, wrapping cards, sewing purses, and screen printing t-shirts, bags and art.   The move happened in early December, just in...

Wednesday evening at 7pm. I spoke about my new book, A Scottish Migration to Alexandria! Alexandria Library hosted.  You can see the Zoom Talk here:Ellen's Zoom Talk, Dec. 8, 2021   New Alexandria-in-Snow Cards This year's holiday cards show Alexandria scenes in the snow. I took these photos last Winter. I have a 9-card assorted card pack, and 5 and 10-packs of each design. I also have non-Alexandria themed cards. You can see all the snow images here.   Wall Calendars This year's calendars are Architectural Alexandria, and Ponies of Chincoteague. I took all the photos, and had these 8-inch...