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Pam Loves Her Blouse!

mammal — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:04:33 +0000

Pam called me today and raved about the color, fit, and style of her new blouse. Just when I was tired of blouses, I get a rave review!
Sweet!

Blouse sized 3X

Handbags Are Fun to Make

mammal — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:26:51 +0000

I finished with the blouses, it really did not satisfy like the handbags do. So I have two more bags cut out and ready to go. It’s not Samsonite luggage by any means, just soft-side bags.
I will have two out of the grey material. One will be lined with a thin satin-like polyester and the other will be lined with a printed light cotton. Both will have outside pockets, a zippered inside pocket and a top zipper.
I’m pretty excited.

Bright material handbag

Art Books

mammal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:11:28 +0000

Art books refresh my creative juices. I just finished The White Rabbit and Other Delights by Alan Bisbort.

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL988301M/white-rabbit-and-other-delights

Xmas Fun

What a long strange trip it’s been. I will give this book to my friend who is moving to Arkansas next week. We are getting together tomorrow for lunch and to say ‘goodbye’.
My friend is an artist. A REAL artist, and she will love this book. Even though she is younger than my son, she still finds the sixties art interesting and inspiring, and understands the philosophies involved with being a seeker and a slacker.
Don’t expect wedding invitations from her, she’s going to Arkansas to stay with her Dad for a surgical procedure. The reason she’s actually moving there, is because she wanted to move anyway and her lease is up, and it just seems like a good time.
I remember being that loosely tied, back in the sixties.

School work

mammal — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:42:04 +0000

School work on spring break, no less. Shouldn’t I be drinking my a55 off in Rocky Point? But no, I will need to work a little bit every day to be on top when classes resume. So Paris is coming over today to help me polish up the web sites. He is also going to teach me how to ‘fish’ for myself, you know, ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat today, but teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’. Which is kind of what I hope to accomplish in Hondurus. I believe the internet is the biggest thing I can bring to them. I will of course need a laptop computer of my own on site, but I am looking in to the rules and regs for importing computers to them. If nothing else, I can bring chips and boards with me and build what they need.
The ecommerce part of my project is really the whole point, that and the gardens. Whatever trinket or goods the community can produce isn’t as important as the act of connecting to the world at large to market the goods. This, I believe, will set them free. And the gardens.
I don’t believe that a local government can take your freedom if you can communicate with the global population, and you know what they all have been going through down there in Central and South America from governments, theirs and mine. For several generations these people have been constantly uprooted, undermined, threatened and disrespected by the powers-that-be. No wonder family units have disappeared and they have lost the will to take care of themselves.
I would like to see a world with free internet signal in the very air around this whole globe, like Tesla intended.

Outdoor Kitchen

mammal — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:47:53 +0000

Take a look at these sultry numbers … farmhouse sinks …
I have a beautiful new lanai and grass in the backyard. The dogs love the grass, I love the lanai. I can see us living outdoors a lot more with this little shady retreat.

bunch of dogs

For Xmas my sweetie-pie got a new gas grill. This baby has lights, side burners, and smoker capability. He’s a real good BBQ-er and handles most of our dinner meats outside. (He got the grill from me.)
We have water to the fountain out there, so I think we need an outdoor sink. Looking at these beauties makes me want it all the more.
I have been doing my ceramics outside under the lanai. Just slab work, or course, I don’t have a wheel. The orange, lime and tangerine trees are in full bloom and the air is perfumed with citrus blossom. It’s heavenly working out there. I made a foot-tall pitcher for an assignment that blew up (dried unevenly), so now I need to replace that particular item. I look forward to doing it today. My first real project came out really nice. I made a small pitcher, used ‘velvet underglaze’ and dipped it in light cerulean blue. It turned out so pretty. I am keeping notes about what colors and glazes I use so I can remember. There are a lot of them to remember. If I get a really good or a really bad result I will know from my notes what I tried. Got a little journal just for ceramics.

Crafting for kids

mammal — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:30:32 +0000

My niece and hr family got into town yesterday and we had a nice dinner over here. I was worried that I would experience boredom between school sessions like I did over the summer. I don’t know what I was worrying about, having that wonderful brood in town for the Holidays is just what I needed.

The girls made zipper pulls/pendants all evening with the stuff I had laid out for my own zipper pulls. They really did a good job, and got some nice pieces out of it. So I will google crafts for kids and see what I can set them up with for the rest of the week. My tall young nephew played with the computer, mostly, and with my son, who is a big kid himself. They had a good time, and the ‘puter is right here in the livingroom, so Nephew got to visit with all the adults while he had a game going to stave off boredom.

We had a real good time and I’m looking forward to having kids around for the holidays. WOO HOO !!

Today is final in Spanish and speech rehearsal for Humanities. I need to finish the Photoshop project before tomorrow evening, too. Maybe I’ll just do the front page in Photoshop and the rest in Dreamweaver. Maybe tomorrow or Wed. I will got out to the Westgate Mall, or one of the others. I like Paradise Mall and it is close, but they’re all good when you’re a great shopper like me.

I saw gingerbread house kits at Food City for $10.00 I bet the kids would like to assemble that.

Gingerbread House