Love This Post Card

This weekend we had the pleasure of visiting with our good friends (and grandparents to this cutie) Lee and Phyllis. We went to dinner at Pane Vino and then headed over to the Boulevard Music Store in Culver City for a Janet Klein show.  

Janet and her boys play "lovely, naughty, and obscure music of the 1910's, 20's and 30's." Her website is loaded with vintage photos and music samples. Just going to her website is a treat. Kinda like sneaking into someone's gorgeous vintage steamer trunk. Truly, it is worth a look. Grab a cup of tea and slip into her "parlor" for a visit.

I have seen her a few times and each time it's just pure fun. She is a the local treasure. And, her promotional postcards...little artworks one and all.

For the Love of Spuds

One of the great things about Flickr is that no matter what your interests are, there are others "out there" who share them. Take heart shaped potatoes, for example. I thought I was pretty nuts to be snapping a shot of this lovely spud. Come to find out there are a whole bunch of romantic heart spud lov'n photogs on Flickr. Maybe I am not so weird after all!

When Bad Ceilings Happen to Good People

Friday morning moments after I brushed my teeth in the bedroom, the knee of my pants split and I needed to walk back to the bedroom. Upon my return I felt some drops on my head,  a wet spot on my sock, and discovered this.

I panicked and called my mother in FL. Cliff thinks my reaction was ridiculous. I know, I know it isn't a big deal compared to flooding, mudslides and avalanches. Still, most of the time I can accept a popcorn ceiling as just a part of renting and force it out of my mind.  As soon as the rain stops, the building crew will repair it. They will do a good job, but until then...

this ceiling is mocking me!

Red Work

Modern Valentines

At first, Cliff approached his rotating decorating project with the theme of "Guitarists from the 60's who were still rocking in the 80's." As you can imagine, those guitar "heros" with 20 year careers had images of themselves rock'n it out splashed across their album covers. While the narrative theme of that concept was strong, most people (meaning pretty much only me) looking at our wall wouldn't appreciate it. That display would be cool at someplace like a record shop.  

"I don't want to take over your decorating project, and I really don't care what you do, but maybe you could focus on aesthetics."

I think this modern display of black and white albums is really nice and I tried to complement it with a rock display of my own.

Cleaning Up

I know it's late for a Christmasy post. I am quite behind with cleaning up Christmas this year. The pink kitchen project consumed me and I fell further behind.  Last year I started hanging my Christmas cards on our kitchen curtains. I just love this tradition and it's a bit hard for me to take them down. Each card is like a visit from a friend. Then there is the whole idea of throwing those cards in the trash. This year I used my new cutter to make some tags from the cards. Made the whole dismantling Christmas process just a bit easier.

Now that Christmas is cleaned up, I can play with the loot my mother in law sent me. She is preparing to move and threw all her crafty stuff in a box as she cleaned. This week the big box arrived and it is a bounty of all sorts of stuff. Truth be told, my mother did the same thing when I was home for Christmas! I am swimming in fabric right now. Certainly, a happy problem.

She Liked It! She Really Liked It!

A wonderful time was had by all! 

(Photos used with permission from mom & dad.)