Tonight's fog bank

Click on photo.
Beginning:

A family visiting the beach in the fog:

Sun setting in fog:


Other nature photos from the Pacific NW These open full size

Unconscious Mutterings

Nimbostratusland this morning:















Found on Windstorms blog...

1. Infiltration:: sneak attack by cat
   
2. Nice person:: acting or is?
   
3. Debt:: karmic
   
4. Settle down:: If you want, you can marry! ( lyrics by Cat Stevens)
   
5. Thomas:: Old friend
   
6. Unforgivable:: unforgettable
   
7. Medicine:: love
   
8. A year from now:: I will still be THAT!
   
9. Neighbors:: Gone South
   
10. Dripping:: sky
    

Play Unconscious mutterings

Horoscopes by Linda * while biking and skating

My friend Linda (pictured here on bike, and heard on audioblog) lives in Snohomish at the farm where I lived for 3 years many years ago. The farm is a shared home situation, (5 people live there). it's a great place to live, on 5 acres with a view of Mt Rainier.

Many of us from the farm do things together, and today Linda and I are out at the trail skating (me) and she is biking.

Linda is a very talented and insightful astrologer. She delivers her insights in a way that is very appealing. Here on this audioblogg that I am putting her up to, she is talking generally about astrology, and she gives her e-mail address for a 5 minute consult.
peopleshare@msn.com
Include in e-mail; your full name, date of birth, place of birth, hour of birth if you know it, and phone so she can call you with a reading. Or e-mail her with questions.

Enjoy the audioblog and photos below, Click on photos for full page shots.
PS. Scroll down in my blog for: "How to wear your blog," it is posted beneath,"Wear your blog to work day." Have fun!

Snohomish Trailhead
Skater and runner in parking lot area.
people on horseback, too!
Linda on phone blogging on horoscopes. My poor friends, what I put them through!
Your personal audioblogging astrologer at work!
A piece of Washington Sky, under which I skate!

Wear your Blog to Work Day Official Date Now Set, so pass this on....Jan.20,2006

Be sure to read the post below this one, "How to Make a Wearable Blog."
And the transfer paper has instructions for ironing on. I use a paper bag on top of my ironing board for protection from high heat.
This one is the transfer in reverse using Tekka template, as promised in the blog before this one. ( as promised)
click to see full size

The official date for, Wear your Blog To Work Day is January 20th!

I have chosen this date so as many people as possible will have time to get their blogs and shirts ready.

It is also sometimes Inaugration Day, but it is Always, "my birthday!"

It is my gift to you, another holiday, we can't have enough now, can we? Maybe Microsoft will add it to their list of holidays and it will spread out from there. HoHoHo ...Come on Bill, surely you have softened up about vacations in your older age!

And if you'd like to send a tee or transfer of your blog to me, I would absolutely be honored!
You can write for an address if you are so inclined! If you do one early, like for Crissmiss, send that too, I would love to have a copy of your crissmiss blog to wear!!!!

I will be happy to do a review of wearable blogs!

We might begin a competition for most creative blog project!
And I am sure some big companies like Apple or Adobe or Msft. would love to furnish a prize. Right?
I hope to see them vying for this position, or better yet.."COLLABORATING!". This is art you know!
Entry fees could be donated to help victims of natural disasters! ( Since we are having so many)

Any other ideas? Send them here! Thank you!

How to Make a Wearable Blog

Making a transfer for a Tee shirt or sweat shirt that is an image of your blog is easy to do, and you can be creative about what goes where.

I am soooo sorry I have none to show you right now, they are all out and about! This link will be in my sidebar!

Kim has a drawing here of tee shirt with blog

Here is a photo of my blog in reverse, however:
click to see full size

Buy some transfer paper from your office supply store. It will have instructions for ironing on. White for a white Tee, special dark paper for a dark Tee.

1. First it is best to blog your current blog, so it will have your links on it, and you don't want it to be too long or too short, but,, just about right for transfer paper size!

2. Make sure to post something colorful, and if you are concerned with it being really legible, there is a template called Tekka that uses a nice clear large font that would show up really nice for on a tee.

I have posted the Tekka template above this post on, "wear your blog to work day."
(This is not necessary, but just a suggestion in case you do one and think it is too small to read easily.)

3. Post a nice blog with colorful photos and some nice topics that would be of interest to your co- workers or the kids at school, or your classmates in college, etc. Say something nice about your boss, maybe it will result in a raise! Be creative, and have fun, you are making a conversation piece.

4. Once you have designed your blog, select print, page one to one, and pdf, now, save it as a PDF on your desktop.
5. Then if you have photoshop flip the image horizontally, or perhaps your printer has this option, either way, then save as a jpg or just print it out in photo shop. (You must flip horizontally) to print it out on transfer paper and iron it on a tee.

6. I like to cut my links and run them down the arm of a long sleeve tee. And you might take use a few photos to iron on the other sleeve as well.

You could be the first to wear your blog at your workplace, so hurry up now!

7. Make sure you get your blog on a tee soon to wear on ,"Wear your blog to work day!" Jan.20th
Any questions, I 'd be glad to answer,
Sherry

Elke's slideshow..Maria's chickens... from flickr

slideshow from flickr Elke

Maria's chickens!

Latte stands of nimbostratusland

< nimbostratusland blog here/latte stands

Your phone number may be in violation! Vending fries, and other interesting things...

But you can check here!

Oops! You may be in violation!You may be inadvertently performing one of the Magnus-Opus melody series each time you use your telecommunications device (telephone, mobile telephone, modem and other internet devices).

The fully AUTOMATIC FRENCH-FRIES VENDING MACHINE provides, in a record time, a delicious portion of hot crunchy and golden fries.>
This person printed 15,000 of these bubble stickers and place them on top of ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in. See the results here!

Pooches horoscope

If you don't have your pooches horoscope , run, don't walk your fingers over these keys, click and fill in the proper blanks so that you will know how to take the best care of your doggie's day. Should he walk today, or not? Should he visit a friend? Shoud he get intimate, and with whom? Is it a good time to kennel him, or shoud you get a house sitter? Find some answers here!

Pooches horoscope

Reflections on friends....Linda

Linda is my talented astrology friend. She is an Aquarian, like me. sharp woman, very sharp, and she knows a lot. She can be the most wonderful person, and yet she can make people so mad with her aggressiveness.
But I always have to love her!

She is quite aware that she can be very aggressive, and controlling. I like it when I can actually have a disagreement with a friend and get angry, and still know we will be friends. In fact I think that disagreements are part of any relationship with any depth, importance, or ability to be considered friendship.

It is particularly easy with her. I admit sometimes I have to back off for a while because I just think she might need to find another friend besides me. She knows that I will take her criticism, ...for a bit. Then I have enough, and seek space. That is fine with me. So I enjoy her as long as it is enjoyable, draw a line, and then later resume the friendship. we always enjoy seeing one another, and can relate very well having some things so much in common as airy Aquarians.

My partner is an Aquarian as well, unstructured, and a total flake! He is precious, an angel in many ways, in other ways, he is a narcissist, unable to empathize with me at all, because life is all about him. He is controlling in a way that is just plain devious! And unlike Linda, he is completely unaware of his devices. He is like a big puppy, and the kind of person everyone likes, but who no one really knows. He is shallow in his relationships, knowing just what to say about the weather, but can't go much deeper than that with anyone but me. I am his best and only friend. He relates to women, not to men. He is a big lug, but when I met him, he had a Gods body, and I was quite taken by his great legs.

This relationship is real solid! HAHA!

Oh well, it is what it is, He drives me nuts, I drive him nuts! I am completely tired of him, but we hike together, travel together, spend most of our time together, Gawd! I need a break!

I can't say this relationship is going to last. I want major changes, and he is not about to change, he has always been flakey, of course, he always will be. He won't make any kind of healthy changes for himself or us, and I see this as spiraling downwards, and I can do nothing about it, except leave, and I will if I must.

We are basically friends now, not much more than that. He can laugh at anything I say to him, a big improvement over my previous husband, who just couldn't laugh at any of my jokes, of course they had some truth to them, jokes aren't funny without an element of truth. He passed them out, but couldn't take it back.

I was with him forever, and it was a total mismatch, there was nothing there! I still have no idea who he is, he is truly from a completely other planet than me, and although he speaks English, it may as well be Pleadian, there was not one moments understanding between us, not one! And further more, I don't think anyone he would be involved with would ever speak his language, he hides himself completely. Acts like Joe Cool, but who the hell is he? Does anybody know?

This friend thing began yesterday when I wrote about a friend from my past, then I visited Linda yesterday, and we had a great visit, as usual. I guess it provided food for thought concerning friends, what they are about, and aren't about, who I am, and who I am not. I am sure my friends would have a few choice things to say about me as well! Yikes!

Smiling now, ~ we aren't perfect are we?

Just received an e-mail from Linda, a note about yesterday, an opportunity to barter some of my work for some of her work, We do that a lot! Thank you Linda, for being my friend, too!

Ambrosia for the human soul

Dusted with first snow, these peaks also studded with golden larches stand majestically against a piercing blue fall sky.

Ambrosia for the human soul.

The fresh smell of fir trees in brisk cold air invigorates my senses.

The sun makes it presence fully known warming the body in such a way that you are not taking it for granted, you cannot help but reflect on how suddenly the entire planet would die without it's warmth, as you stand here in this raw place fully exposed to the elements.


A 4 hour drive from my home NE of where I live, this is Washington Pass.

My trip this weekend was to Winthrop and Twisp. By a, "twisp," of fate, Winthrop was a full town, so we drove to Twisp and had dinner at the pub, and heard music by a Whidbey Island band, and spent the night in Carlton. The pub was very crowded with people from the area and some of the people who live there weekends.

The small town of Twisp is made up of artisans and musicians, and now these new breeds who build 10,00 sq ft cabins to weekend over in.

We come here winter to snowshow and enjoy the wildlife, which we saw plenty of this weekend; deer crossing the roads.



These Mountains were photographed at about 5,800 feet. Once one connected moutain,two glaciers joined together here and carved out this valley.


more photos of my home here and here come on in out of the weather

A very very uncoffeepot

for more latte stands, etc.

Month of Boo! Click on Photo...

Don't forget to keep giving

Reminder to plant your good karma seed, illustration by Kim Carney!
Good news, artists making art to help katrina Lets keep it up!
There are still many needs to help Katrina victims. Flickr.com recently had 2 auctions to help raise money for Katrina, and this artist is using Ebay.
Don't forget Potters Rebuilding New Orleans, one of my favorites that is starting up! make your offerings here.

What is real......is not

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."~ Brancusi "Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." ~ Marc Chagal "We work not only to produce but to give value to time." ~ Eugene Delacroix "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." ~ Michelangelo "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." ~ Pablo Picasso "I am an artist... I am here to live out loud." ~ Emile Zola

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!

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!

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!

Monkey in Action..literally!

monkeys jello salad I never thought of it as a riding food processor...
Imagine that!

monkey wrestling with sorbet
Well just ,"leave it to Monkey!"

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

Alvar Aalto of Helsinki and Illmari Tapiovarra, Finland, Bjorn wiinblad, Denmark

Fantasy Bowl by Wiinblad

Aalto I own his glasses, and I love them. This site is very nice too!
I really should be using those glasses in stead of storing them in a box!


The Work of Illmari Tapiovarra

Best lettuce

My source of lettuce soap
It is the lightest most delicate and lathery soap I have ever used, I order it here and save over any American source. I give it for gifts, and I have tried other scents, but lettuce is by far the best!