the week in review: april 13-19

most of the week was spent working on school projects. writing, writing, writing. reading, reading, reading and the making of my very first art journal! go me! the weekend was spent all day in class with a saturday night finale of chaperoning the ander boy's eighth birthday slumber party extravaganza, which included a bouncy house, robot making, popcorn eating, pillow fighting, glow stick wearing, pizza making and then of course, staying up until 2am. after three hours of groggy sloggy sleep, i went back to class to learn how to graffiti my name, present my journal and hang out in a stranger's garden. what a splendid week it was! this week is more reading and writing and all that jazz and hopefully hiding out from this crazy, CRAZY heat! have a great week everyone!

missing out on the wildflowers

we went on a mini camping trip this Easter weekend to Carrizo Plain. Carrizo Plain is famous for it's wildflowers and wouldn't you know, we missed them by a week or so. sure, there were a few here and there with small patches of happy colors to photograph but the promise of fields and fields of flowers was gone.instead, we trekked out to a spiritual rock to look at pictographs, ate lunch on a plain, hunted for owl's clover, mined a hillside for pretty rocks and set up camp.we brought the april bed to the auto-a-go-go, cooked hot dogs on the fire, noodled around with the ukes and discovered the joys of s'mores made from matzoh.after a dark, dark star filled sky lulled us to sleep, we awoke to hot granola, matzoh pancakes and the packing up of camp. on the drive home, we did of course, jump in a field, snap pictures of cows, oak trees, and wildflowers and stop off for a visit with the family-a-go-go.next trip, we're hoping to go for a bit longer than an overnight. anyone want to come watch the garden and the witch-baby for us?

wreck this cake

i'm sooooo busy my head is going to spin itself to the land of the lost. though, to be honest, i am more busy thinking about all the things that need to be finished this week, too many things. i am a manic jek. happily enough, i was distracted from the busy by a visit with the mama and superstar bean but now i must get back to all that busy i so mysteriously speak of, mostly thinking of those darn papers that need to get written and working on a couple of presentations for this weekend. of course i had time in the middle of this very real busy to bake a cake for a flickr friend.


and then of course, in the tradition that is flickr collaborations and inspired by her wreck this journal project, i baked a cake, decorated it and then wrecked it...happy tuesday! i must run off to the market for milk and toothpaste, tomorrow will truly be spent in school mode so don't call me unless of course you are in the neighborhood and have coffee on you or smiles and hugs, those are nice as well.

the week in review: apr 6-12

let's see...easter fun, school work and camping. sounds like a good week if i do say so myself. clickee here if ya want a smidge more on the pics and clickie the week in review pool to see more, most of them are mine but i am trying so very hard to get y'all to play with me.

so far...

i have spent WAY too much time online, showered, talked to my sister on the phone, washed, dried, folded and put away two loads of laundry, eaten too many slices of angel food cake...with whipped cream, sorted the mail, blown the inside bits out of nine eggs...by mouth, no suction thingie as the suction thingie went missing, begun decopauging three eggs with pretty pattern tissue and painted a rainbow, spotty,dotty beard on my face. what have you done?

mysterious

for some bizarre reason, this photo here has been getting major hits on flickr. over 800 views since Monday. i can't figure out where the link is coming from as the stats only read unknown source. i've been curious about it. why this photo? what kind of story or post does it match and why are sooo many people clicking on it. the dresses in the pic are my favorite baby dresses but i hardly think the photo is anything to write home about.

hmmm, mysterious!