Friday...

end of the week...

And end of the month!
July is leaving San Clemente without giving us
even one day of real California warmth,
not even one real beach day!


We now sit and hope that August will be a little more generous...

Have a creative weekend full of color, glitter and hopefully...sun!!



"Just living is not enough.
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower"
~Hans Christian Anderson~

White Wednesday

"A self portrait without using a portrait"

48 squares
1.5 in. X 1.5 in. each
No faces allowed.

That was our homework assignment last week.

How to let people know about me,
and what I like?

How to let people know
what inspires me
and what makes me feel alive?


48 squares.

Each one a little piece of my home.
A little piece of the place
where I am what I always wanted to be:

a wife and a mom.

I got those two right...
the rest is only gravy!

"Life is the sum of all your choices"
~Albert Camus~


Now I'm off to enjoy White Wednesday!

Tante Grazie!

The name of her blog "Italian Girl in Georgia" brought me in...

her warmth and talent kept me going back...

And today I received my very own Suzanne MacCrone original...

"Peaches and Painted Tulips"...

an explosion of color
so vibrant,
so happy,
so Suzanne...

She doesn't know this, but one of my favorite Italian memories
involves the best peaches I ate in my live.
Sweet peaches,
eaten by the sea at Cinque Terre.

One moment in my life that I want to repeat some day.

Until then,
Suzanne's photograph will take me back to that moment,
back to that place

Tante grazie, cara!

Little finds...

A quick run through Country Roads to check on my space this morning,
surprised me with some little finds
Little...very little...

Vintage metal tulips...

sweet pink binding...

metal findings with flowers and leaves shapes...

I bought them without knowing why.

I figured the why while driving home:
because they are a good break from the very precise
and time consuming work I've been doing in class.

My little finds will allow me to create something a lot looser,
a lot less planned, a lot messier, a lot more me!

Hope is also something worth showing,
but that's yet to be seen!

Have a happy and creative weekend!

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit"
~John Updike~

White Wednesday

This "I-need-help" thingy I found for $5.00
is all I've been able to transform lately...

Paint...
Metal numbers...
New wooden knobs...

In the garage.
Quick fixing.
Out of the garage.
Into my space.

Simple.
Immediate gratification.

The kind of project I need for the next 4 weeks,
when my Graphic Design class ends.

Because....
Homework is killing me!!!

But... don't let my kids know it,
I'll never admit it to them!!!
LOL!!!

Happy White Wednesday!!