then i made pie pops

 

 

 

 

 

 with strawberry or cherry jam...the cherry jam was/is divine! what else can i make with it?

making paper chains

 

 

 

When Miss Za proclaimed she wanted a Black Apple birthday party, the Za Ma and I went giddy with old fashioned excitement. With pie in our eyes and vintage prints dancing in our heads we plotted to create a most vintagey bit of birthday lovely. The first step was choosing a color palette. Once the Za Ma chirped up with the vintage inspired colors...black, red and pale blue; I got to paper shopping, chain making and perhaps a stitched up yo-yo or two.

With the help of a paper cutter, the mister chopped up the pretty bits all nice and even. Leave me alone with a pair of scissors and paper needing cutting, I'll snip, snip away but it won't be anywhere near even. After setting up something to watch on Netflix, I settled on the floor with a handful of clothespins and a small bottle of tacky glue and got to gluing. It wasn't long before I abandoned the glue and hunted out the stapler. Not as pretty but it sure made the work go quickly. I ended up with two long, long chains. Perfect for decorating a happy Black apple inspired paper doll party.

wind and sprinkles and bad smoothies...oh my!

The wind is blowing up something fierce so now I am certain I am covered, covered, covered in miniscule bits of pollen. Evil, evil pollen. It is now time for a shower and a nap...other than the sniffy-drippy non-working sniffer, allergies make me ever so sleepy. Y A W N.

I dropped my happy yellow cupcake with tiny ranbow sprinkles into the leggy fern that sits outside our backdoor. I swear that green monster is trying to sneak into the tiny casa to scatter its allergy inducing spores all around. Poor yellow cupcake with tiny rainbow sprinkles. It was a gift from a pair of birthday kiddos at the school. Fern covered spores and all it did not prevent me from taking its picture. I also may have scraped off the icing and eaten the cakey goodness. What? It was a gifted birthday cupcake, can't let it go to waste.

I also seem to have lost my smoothie making mojo. The last three smoothies I made progressed from meh to blech. Even with the non-working and disabled sniffer the smoothies were T E R R I B L E. I shake my head in smoothie-making shame. Sniff.

Let's hope tomorrow is a happier wind-free, tasty-smoothie filled kind of day.

party prep

 

 

 

 

the mind tends to flutter away

at the most inopportune times...as always, there is much I should be doing but less doing than thinking about the doing. sigh. I'm pretty sure this is why I am not a celebrity of any sort. I just daydream about all these ideas I have and truthfully, some of them are quite dreamy, brilliant even but the get up and go to get them going has, like I said, fluttered away...

at least the fluttering is pretty.

scenes from a SLO saturday...

my favorite view

breakfast biscuit from Stewart and Clark

a regular weekend visit to the thrift outlet

sister a-go-go's roses

soon-to-be-canjos

tennis ball guide

in the garage

jar of matches

the magic pie

work in progress

last Saturday...looks a lot like most, sans a hike or a wander...today we are in L.A. for an appointment and a party and a flea market date with the brother-a-go-go. See ya in a few days!