September 22nd, 2011

Coming Home

On a rainy Thursday morning, I’m looking for inspiration–even more than anything material could temporarily provide.

When you live in the Northwest, salmon is a big deal.  Kids learn about their life cycles in school, (salmon release field trip, pictured below)

a big portion of the economy depends upon it and of course we all like to eat it.

And in a world where at times all seems soo tenuous, with the economy, scarcity of resources and more.  It’s important to keep hope. Here near the Olympic Peninsula, the largest dam in history, Elwha Dam is comin’ down.

Click here:  Salmon coming home to watch a video by The Seattle Times to watch the salmon returning to their natural habitat, while simultaneously getting your morning started with some inspiration.

Developments ‘this big’ don’t happen every day.  Let’s be inspired by all that IS possible.

 

Categories: Food, Fun
September 20th, 2011

DIY Cast Couture

Never being one to walk, err crutch through life lightly, there was just no way I’d be willing to live with an ugly vanilla Plain Jane cast.

So I wanted to show my inner Fashionista outwardly by selecting a pink day glo fiber glass.   But I still felt the volume could be turned up…

Really, in these dire circumstances only Chanel would do.  So a visiting friend sketched the design with pencil….

(I do hope there are no copyright infringements here)

Then we filled it in with marker.  Interlocking C’s you see.

Then enlisted my daughter’s helps to bling (yes, this is a verb!) it out.


And the final product.  Next up the back or sides, do stay tuned.

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different” – Coco Chanel

Categories: Fashion, Fun
September 19th, 2011

Blackberry Granita

My Dad & Daughter went blackberry pickin’ this weekend. What a Northwestern splendor!

They returned with stained hands (and mouths) and clothes, but what a bounty.

Of course the berries are good enough to eat on their own, but since my husband enjoys spoiling us with food, he concocted a blackberry granita to be enjoyed on a lazy Sunday.

He rifted off a fairly easy (or “easy” for me to say, since I wasn’t the one making it!) recipe from Ehow Food here.

P.S. What do you think of the awesome knee scooter in the background?  Hope to be zipping around on it soon.  Pics. to come…maybe:)

Categories: Food, Fun
September 15th, 2011

Got Time?

Will online shop.  Especially when it’s my fingers that walk.

Since I am moving physically at a snail’s pace, seems appropriate to blog about tortoise.

On my radar…

Nixon’s Chronograph Tortoise watch.  Whole page of cool other tortoise watches from Nordstrom here.

Slow and steady wins the race, right?

 

Categories: Fashion, Fun
September 13th, 2011

Keys To Friendship

Kids say it so simply and perfectly at times.

Yesterday my daughter brought home a special school project. It was a key ring with 5 paper keys hanging from it.

The Keys of Friendship, you see.

1) Stand Up For Your Friends
2) Forgive Your Friends
3) Let Your Friends Have Other Friends
4) No Put Downs
5) Apologize

I literally just got chills typing this.  Why do we grown-ups complicate it?

All this time on my fanny has put so much into perspective.  It really does take twice as much, at least, energy to do the opposite of any of the above on the list.

P.S. I have gotten some anecdotal feedback from folks who read this blog.  I’m leaning more towards telling things a little more like they are.  What do you think?  Don’t get me wrong, I still want to write about the light and fun, like Missoni madness (what an adventure that has been!) that consumed the larger portion of my day…which is a whole other post, stay tuned.

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