In the depth of winter, when most garden plants look ho-hum, camellias, with their perfectly-shaped glossy leaves and their delicately-layered blossoms, add incredible beauty to our lives. Don’t let the shorter days and the stay-inside-weather prevent you from recognizing and appreciating their winter perfection. Everything on earth has a purpose, even camellias. #1 – Purposely [...]
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Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/24/12)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Gift Ideas, Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Recipes, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged bird feeders, birds, blog, creative design, Helping Others, how to preserve lemons, inspiration, John Pierpont quote, lemons, life, Limbs for Life, Paris vs. New York, pay phones, phone booths, preserving lemons, protheses, Repurposing, repurposing phone booths, Vahram Muratyan on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Chirping up a storm, the birds in my backyard are letting me know that their feeders are empty. I look out the window to the feeding station and see that the sunflower seeds have disappeared and all but one-inch of Nyjer seed remains in another feeder. It’s a quite a job to stay on top [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (2/17/12)
Posted in Aging, Art and Crafts, Health, Helping Others, Holidays, inspiration, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged advice for women over fifty, blog, calories, Fab 50, food portions, Helping Others, inspiration, life, life is art, liquid paint sculptures, Martin Klimas, Miguel Angel Ruiz quote, National Heart Lung and blood Institute, ordinary and extraordinary things, over fifty, painting with sound, photo of the year, portion distortion, super sized food, super-sized, Women over 50, women over fifty, World Press Photo on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes the ordinary can be extraordinary. Lowly landscape flowers shine in otherwise flowerless gardens; wet paint vibrates with energy creating liquid sculptures; one person helps another and both lives improve. There are many things that exist and happen in our everyday lives that we deem ordinary, but when reflected upon, they are truly quite extraordinary! [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! 12/2/11
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Creativity, Holidays, inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged Angelina Jolie quote, blog, free holiday printables, free printables, Helping Others, Holstee Manifesto, inspiration, life, random thoughts, rhyming words, smartphone apps, words that rhyme on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are you so busy making lists and checking them twice that you can’t fully enjoy the holidays? With so much to do and so little time, it’s very easy to turn into a holiday robot. Let’s all try to make more time to get out and be with the people we care about and not [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! ( 10/28/11)
Posted in Art and Crafts, Creativity, Entertainment, Health, Helping Others, Holidays, Husbands, inspiration, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged alleviate back and hip pain, back pain, blog life, Helping Others, hip pain, inspiration, pumpkin art, pumpkin carving, quotes, reuseing aluminum foil, sushi cat game, tennis ball therapy, ways to reuse foil on October 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
She: “This photo is kind of gross.” He: “What’s the photo of?” She: “A close-up I took of a pumpkin.” He: “What’s gross about a pumpkin and why’d you photograph it anyway?” She: “Because it reminded me of something.” He: “Reminded you of what?” She: “Rolls of abdominal fat and stretchmarks . . . .” [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five! (9/9/11)
Posted in About me, Art and Crafts, Health, Helping Others, inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged alcohol art, art, blog, dalai lama quote, Helping Others, inspiration, random thoughts, secrets of success, TED, tonic, vitamin supplements on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Random thoughts. That’s usually one of the tags I use when I post my Friday’s Fresh Five! columns. Having random content is both good and bad. The bad part is because these posts, and my blog in general, feature random bits of information and thoughts I want to share, my blog may never attain the [...]
T-Shirt Bag
Posted in Art and Crafts, Creativity, Helping Others, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged DIY shopping bag, making a shopping bag from t-shirt, recycling clothes, recycling t-shirts, shopping bags from t-shirts, t-shirt bag, tee shirt bag on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shopping bags are hardly considered stylish accessories, but I have to admit, mine are cute and unique. Completing two weeks of serious and ruthless closet cleaning left me with a stack of clothes that didn’t qualify for the normal “rag, donate, or save-for-weight-loss piles.” I couldn’t toss out Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary shirt or my “Art Breaks [...]
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