………for two wonderful workshops! Saturday was absolutely fascinating as Danny demonstrated wrinkling the paper in order to create mountains, valleys and waterfalls. Here’s Danny’s example. A closer look. After wrinkling the paper in the prescribed manner, Danny begins...

…..and other fun stuff! I showed you this fellow before but I love him so. What can he be thinking? Would you believe….These two were being hand fed with a fork…. There, there Kita, you’re still my fav…… I love the way you sit and beg to go for a ride… Never giving up...

…….with a few bumps here and there.  Mom is doing so much better, she has a visiting nurse everyday and insists on getting up at 8:00 to be dressed and made up for her ‘company’.  Other than that, I have instructions….’Absolutely NO visitors’!  My...

Perhaps I should start at the beginning when I got the urge to plant some new roses. While Kita entertained herself………….. And my addiction to cute doggies grew stronger. Rosie and I met for lunch at Le Pain Quotidien in Americana…..catching up on her Ragbrai bike ride...

……my car decided to have a fit at Trader Joe’s…..the alarm went off and I couldn’t stop it….please, make it stop.  Silly me, when it did I went inside, marketed and when the groceries were in the trunk I could not start the car.  Wouldn’t you know…. when the...

……is absolutely the best summer movie….tons of fun and great cast…..Helen Mirren was fantastic and Mary Louise Parker’s dead pan wry humor was perfect! Laurie & I BOTH had a large popcorn and I did quite a bit of damage to mine. Time for dinner at Frida’s in...

…..directed and produced by Pam Tom has a completed ‘First Cut’ thanks to Kickstarter!!!  More on that later.  The amazingly talented, award winning  Pam is moving with hubby Ted and their delightful daughters Asia & Isabella, to New York, so friend...

…..well maybe not bears as Sandie & Dr. Jim along with Lauren and Richard left for Africa Monday.  The latest report received was that although they arrived in Nairobi, Sandie’s bag was in Switzerland and Jim’s arrived in Nairobi b4 they did!  Probably...

……..See how the planet will end…..this turned out to actually be cute with a delightful ending. Rating: Large popcorn, cheesy chips and lots of candy since ‘This is the End’. I’d see this just to hear the William Tell Overture and Johnny Depp was so much better than...

……to create a scroll for Bonnie and Charlie’s Tatami Room.  Now this is no small assignment as the scroll, being site specific, was to be the only ‘adornment’ in the room and had to convey: A sense of peace…….. harmonious with it’s surroundings….. bringing nature...