apple picking

views from the car on the way to pick apples.  amazing clouds.

i'm just a little in love with the washed out blue sky and red apples in this photo.  

here's some new work.  a little collage using a vintage technicolor motel brochure, some painted and colored papers and the text is a tape transfer of a newspaper headline. does anyone do tape transfers?  how do they work for you?   i love them because they are so immediate but they can be a bit temperamental for me.    

we've gone apple picking ever since my kids were young.  it was always great fun.  apple picking now, with a 24, 19 and 17 year old is a completely different kind of fun and i love it.  i'm glad we went last weekend since it's supposed to rain till tuesday here.  (oh i just might have to go find a youtube video of voices carry, now)   youngest son has a road test coming up so there will be much practicing of parallel parks and 3 point turns.  i've got to finish the fortune cookie wisdom calendar and at least attempt to clean my house.  but aren't rainy fall days perfect for getting cozy on the couch wrapped in a blanket and watching a movie?  especially if popcorn and hot chocolate are involved? 

what are your weekend plans?  whatever you do, enjoy!

smile

i've been sick with a stupid cold (again!) for over a week now and i've just about had enough of it (she said with a stamp of her foot).  i mean i've really had enough of it.  so i thought i'd find some things to make me smile and hopefully you too.

this video of lisa hannigan makes me very happy.  i just love her voice.

art in red wagon's tutorial for making garden markers.  i think i might actually be able to make these!  and she takes some amazing sky photographs.

rose and honey marshmallows by sweetniks.  softly sweet pink smiles...

doesn't everybody need a pocket manfriend?  meet kenneth by MsSpanner

shabby chic summer pjs or french knickers by PeriDotbyDuni

and this, this is just the biggest smile for me.  a treasury with forgiveness from my inner constellations series made it to the etsy front page!  that's thrilling to me.  thanks so much to StoneTreeJewelry for making a treasury with just the right magic to make it to the front page and for including me in it!  

and here's some of StoneTreeJewelry's work

smile-worthy, right?

music to cook by

thought i'd share part of my playlist for this easter's cooking marathon, really just an excuse to wish you happy easter, happy passover, happy spring...  

the house is warm and toasty and starting to smell good.   have a wonderful day filled with family and love and food and cadbury eggs

i love this song.  maybe i should have posted it on valentine's day?

still sick and spending way too much time on the computer.  it's better than watching sponge bob all day, right?

what do you think?

i think i'm really loving this...

christmas wrapping

i took my shop out of vacation mode on etsy and started making treasuries with a vengeance.  here's one for my favorite christmas song - christmas wrapping by the waitresses.  tried to be clever about it - maybe it's so clever it's unrecognizable?  hope not.  anyway i had fun making it.

enjoy!

in honor of halloween

two posts in one day?  oh my.

middle son, also known as, oldest son but middle child, aka dylan goodman has turned me on to google+.  he is always posting videos and fun stuff and so far i've just been commenting.  i am computer illiterate even though he has tried for a long time to show me how not to be.   but i felt compelled to figure out how to post a video? upload a video?  see what i mean, i just don't speak the language.  anyhow, i love the song halloween head by ryan adams.  i mean i love it.  my kids may just tolerate it, i'm not sure.  or maybe i should say they tolerate me listening to it.  so in honor of halloween i had to figure this out.

i'm somewhat proud to say that i did it. 

now i'm going to do it again.

version 1



version 2

i am so happy.

isn't this a great song?