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September 29, 2005

Ho Hum! Vintage projects pick me up! Haiku for Monkey!

Here Monkey is reading his fortune in a chinese restaurant...Monkey is so fun! He says," now it's time for eating our fortune cookies. my fortune says:
"you never worry about the future."

i wonder what i will learn tomorrow.
(very wise monkey)

I need a bit of cheering up, so I am going to write haiku’s for Monkey. I have also always loved haiku’s!
Haiku's for Monkey:

"Oh little monkey who loves haiku, come to Seattle for hugs and chocolate kisses too!"

The monkey’s frivolous posed against white, look for Halloween costumes constructed at night.

Cookies, shortbreads and yummy limeaid, just a few things monkey has made.

Fall leaves rush now to cross the streets, tumbling headlong into hands meaning to keep. ( that is better)

A simple monkey sits on a page, coming to my loneliness with his holiness.
(That one made me cry!)



The last week I have been pulling my hair out with i-photo. It crashed, and I think I must admit defeat, and the loss of about 2000 nice photos. I have practically crawled in to my computer looking for my lost photos. Would anyone have noticed I was gone?

For me this is an omen, things are about to change, something that has been very involved in my life for a long while.

I have known it was coming, for a long time. Seems it will never get here, this change.
Funny life I have, not very grounded, but then I am an Aquarian, and I have little earthiness to my chart, Some Capricorn that grounds me. Big changes are brewing! Scare me!

And as if that wasn't enough...

A few sad hair days as well. When I went to get highlights, I ended up platinum, then went back to have it toned down, and ended up being a honey blonde! Soo, with all this going on, I have just decided to indulge in a little fabrication of lamp shades on some of my pottery lamps I have made. I used fabric from my vintage collection that I have had forever and ever.
Notice vintage ironing board, with vintage fabric, and vintage sewing machine in rear.The vintage machine must go! I got this when I was 16 years old! I admit, I made a lot of stuff with this machine, it paid for itself well!


Large lamps. Small lamps. Close up of fabric, detail...I cut fabric with holes in it and patched it first, one has a stain on the back...perrrrfect!
Someone here doesn't seem to appreciate my handiwork.... Gramdma woud just say that person is a SOUR PUSS!

I sure miss her, what a lady she was! Last member of my family of origin to die, I was 32 years old. I really didn't want her to go, but she did, and they all just left me here all alone. Imagine that? I would rather not!

Click icon for view of my sailboat fabric! ( Above where it says ,"large")
And check out...

vintage fabric group at Flickr






Monkey would say eat chocolate, I think!

Grandma’s fabric, some of it anyway. Did I tell you I have a huge button collection? But no one gives me buttons! {pout}
When I was a little girl visiting our farm in West Virginia, we played a game called “button button, whose got the button?” Familiar to anyone? Family, come back and play with me! Lets play button button, and Riddley riddley ree.. I see something that starts with ...B!

I want to be a little girl again today, today! I just want my family all around me, Grandma especially, but they left a long time ago, I miss them more instead of less as time goes on, and I feel like I am looking into a window watching other people belong, and I can only watch families. I don’t feel I am a part of a family.

Oh! Here I go, I am feeling sad for me! Watch out!
Poor me!

Oh well, here let me post my latest handiwork…blogging always cheers me up~smile!

September 28, 2005

Katrina Auction: Nicole, Electrifying Beauty, A woman's Smile



katrina relief auction pieces...slideshow

Starting bid on Nicole is 25.00
many photos to bid on!

Love my Dahlia!


This dahlia is huge! About 9" across! It is from a first year tuber, the plant was planted late, and was only a foot tall when it put this on recently.
Wow, I love my dahlia!

Latest from Monkey


In a recent e-mail from Monkey, he said," Chocolate..it's not just for breakfast anymore!" So go for it boys and girls, eat chocolate anytime!

Great food blog!
Chocolate and Zucchini!

September 23, 2005

Watch This! And get your T shirt transfer here, as well as....

Coloring papers with the penguin family, and ....and...AND...A printable PDF ..FULL SIZE POSTER!!! Totally Cool, I am printing mine out right now, and one for a gift, too. It's only 42 pages!


Click to watch

This site is very extensive in products that are fREE to download; pages of The Penguin Family to color, screen savers with the Penguins, buddy icons, wall paper. Have fun!

Sonia Madruga..ART!



Carlos Arruza e Roberto Madruga nesta quinta 13-9-05 visitando meu atelier.
Carlos é o coordenador da UNAT da UGF e Roberto Madruga, meu sobrinho, médico trilhando brilhante carreira além de uma pessoa maravilhosa.
Beijos e bom fim de semana
Sonia Madruga


World Arts and Crafts group, on Flickr

Join up!

September 22, 2005

September 21, 2005

Monkeyshines

my first offering is simple yet classic - the quintessential watermelon wedge. eaten icy cold on a hot summer day this treat bring back floods of happy childhood memories. i like to serve it in the garden just in case i have an unexpected urge for a little frolic through the sprinkler! what could be more perfect?



"Salsa!! it's not just for tomatoes anymore!" says Monkey!


More monkeyshines from my newest online friend, and chef!

Monkey writes: "Recipe for groundhog's day cookies is actually from my english friend judith and they are perfect to have warm during your groundhog's day festivities or winding down after a big day of groundhog's day activities."

Of course, I had forgotten all about Groundhogs dys festivities since I have grown up!

My newest friend online is really fun (as all of my friends are). Monkey is a little unusual, adorable in terry cloth, and cleverishly delightful, as playful as only an animated stuffed toy can be.

Mind you now, that there is something childishly magical about corresponding with a stuffed monkey who has a web site that contains recipes for delish desserts such as key lime pie complete with photos of monkey baking up the dessert to actually show one how it is done, from crushing crackers to baking and serving.

Now Monkey, I have to say you have put not just a smile on my face, but have lit my heart with a merriment that I quite enjoy participating in, as we exchange short and maybe silly e-mails. What is more innocent, or pertinent for that matter, than silliness? And to be a silly grown person is, well, like being a child again.

What an inventive imagination you have, and I am inspired to look at the world through monkey eyes, and see how that things we take for serious; for true, aren’t anymore to be taken for real than a terry cloth monkey making pies, and puns. Pies and puns are better!

Why if more people indulged in curious monkeyin’ around, imagine the way the world would change? Monkey is an artist, with a keen humor and who is very wise, and playful. I had not realized how grown up I ‘d become, until Monkey showed up, and revealed by nature of her lightness, just how easy life really is, if you just use the imagination, and not take yourself seriously.

Thank you Monkey, for sending the world your web site, I hope everyone appreciates your antics as much as I do, I just think of you, and I am delighted. Your monkeyshines are radiantly needed in today’s world of serious serious stuff.
Cheers To Monkey!

large gustavsberg kage bowl, 1960

Masaru Emoto Sept. water crystal

Water Crystal of Niagara Falls
In this page, I will introduce one photo of watercrystal every month. Download of this photo is free for only private use. But please do not edit or redistribute.

Masaru Emoto