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Hope you have a LOVE filled weekend…
Life has thrown us another curve, and I’ve had to put my Etsy shops in vacation mode for a while. My 85 year old mother-in-law fell last Friday (January 23) and she broke her hip. She had surgery on Sunday and, unfortunately, it led to several complications to her already bad health. I’m spending my days with my husband Lawrence at the hospital.
Any positive vibes you can send would be greatly appreciated.
‘Til next time…
View from my mother-in-law’s window the morning of her surgery…
Keeping busy in the waiting room while she undergoes hip surgery…
She made it through surgery…
My Monday post in Instagram & my Facebook business page…
Caught the sunset through the ICU stairwell window…
Lawrence and I stumbled upon a beautiful little serenity/meditation room on the ICU floor…
Yesterday I placed both my Etsy shops on ‘vacation mode’…
Today: new room = new view…
we finally got rain here, so I spent some time outside in between rainfalls and did an unplanned photo session.
I LOVE the rain – every looks beautiful after a rainfall…
geraniums…
beautiful old birdhouse…
Susie’s Garden sign, made by my best friend Annette…
fallen petals…
peekaboo…
Canela’s not happy when it rains…
rain selfie! (sort of…)
sat in my parked car, in my pjs, and enjoyed the rain…
beautiful raindrops!
signing and varnishing my mini ornaments before sending to their new homes…
ready to kick things up a notch! ordered Artful Blogging by Stampington & Company…
beautiful sky, November 2014.
“El Corazon” nicho ornament, $12 in my Etsy shop.
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doing some hand stitching while watching Gone With the Wind…
autumn in California: colorful leaves, 80 degree weather…
scent of blooming jasmine is here…
WIP: hand stitched skull fabric ornaments (thanks JoAnns for extra fabric!)
’til next time…
it’s been hot around here. HOT. today it looks like we got a break – it’s only 93 degrees! no really, it feels much cooler than it has been, so i ventured outside to do something i love to do: take photos in our back yard.
you’ll notice it’s mainly photos of decor items and container plants. we rent this house, and haven’t really wanted to plant lots of flowers and plants because we don’t plan to be here forever. we plan on buying our own home, then we can invest in plants, trees, landscaping…(fingers crossed; hoping it’s a reality soon!)
a gift from my mom…
a gift from my father-in-law…
the back yard is my favorite thing about this house. it’s big; we’ve hosted lots of parties with friends and families, with one of the highlights being my dad ALWAYS climbing up the stone wall to pick oranges, limes, apples, or nectarines (whatever is in season at the time). even when i tell him to wait until lawrence or i are nearby to ‘help’ (really, it’s to make sure he doesn’t fall). he never waits. never…
my husband calls these yellow flowers ‘weeds’. i like them!
when the weather’s nice out, the yard becomes my photo studio – i drag out a folding table, dropcloths/backdrops (if needed), and boxes of artwork or whatever needs to be photographed for the website or Etsy shops. i’m still trying to perfect my photos for online posts, so i’m usually out there most of the day…
we have tried to add color throughout – this bench was the standard brown wood color, until i decided to dig into my acrylic paints and give it some life. it was actually my husband’s idea to paint it ‘Calypso Blue’ (from Americana), a color we both love and use a lot in our work. i LOVE how the bench turned out! we found the medallion that’s hanging over the bench at a discount store, and i spray painted it black, making it look like it cost more than it did. the frame on that table also got painted, but i don’t remember the original color…?
when i have a supply of spray paints – watch out!
i can’t wait to have our own home – i’m dying to paint a mural on a fence – something large scale, colorful, and vibrant!
