and wondering just low long it’s been since you’ve been to a real tea party with ALL the accoutrements?  Scones of course with clotted cream, lemon curd and various jams.  Fresh fruit and lovely little tea sandwiches…the favorite being cucumber but curried chicken was...

…is quite a fascinating thing to do! Felicia (daughter of Dee Dee, my sweet and precious friend from grade school) and her sister-in-law flew in from Pleasanton for a one day Brush painting class and brought a captivating scroll !!! Mary and Felicia Me and Dee Dee The...

…is how our server described the cuisine at ‘PALATE’ the most amazing Glendale restaurant (on Brand) we stumbled upon.  (Octavio Becerra is the chef/owner and you might remember him from Splichal’s Patina Group.) We suspected we were in for a real treat upon...

…because you really had to see this one. Mom and I were  going to see ‘Monty Python’s SPAMALOT’ at the Ahmanson Theatre and I was surprised and delighted to find a wonderful parking spot right next to the 3rd level escalator.  Well, the surprise was on me as...

…It was a perfect day to eat outside during our Brush painting class.  Everyone agreed it was just like going on a picnic!  The Ikebana House where we paint is nestled amidst a huge Bamboo grove along with a vista of various flowering trees and the inspiring...

…that besides being an amazing composer/arranger (think break out ‘Classical Gas’…the most famous instrumental guitar piece of all time), Mason Williams is quite the universal renaissance man and here’s the short list… Comedy writer, eclectic poet and a brilliant...

…that some of the most talented and wonderful Brush painters in the world are in Eugene/Springfield Oregon!  There was a short hop from Portland to Eugene. Emerald Art Center My week long workshop at the Emerald Art Center was an unmitigated joy from beginning to...

I always thought Rosanna Schmidgall was just about the sweetest person one could know until I met her mother.  What’s the saying…’The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’? Rosanna’s hubby Ken has a twin and being with them is to quote Casey Stengel, ‘deja vu’...

…gift shop and gallery in Toluca Lake. Thru August 30th you can see the amazing masks and paintings of Sergio Boldrin, an artist from Venice Italy. The opening reception was crammed with collectors buying the masks faster than the sales staff could wrap them up....