Only 2 days to go, oh my!

 Just out of the oven - the delicious sweet potato pound cake! I was mindful to lower the oven temp and to shorten the cooking time a bit, and voila, perfection! The recipe is on my recipe blog HERE.

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More Kitties in the environment cards. I'm having fun. I'm adding a sentence about what's happening, on the reverse. I"ll leave it to your imagination.










I have only 2 more cards to make to complete my third, and LAST, 365 Mail Art project. Whew. I've got my last one planned out in my mind. A good ending. However, that said - I'll still be making Mail Art, just not daily, and not posting them, unless I feel like it.

Ta Da!

Wednesday update

 Here's another image from Asheville. I love this person's work. They're etched! They look like thread, very delicate. The light catches the etched line and changes the shadings. So cool.

 There was a cabinet full of glass birds. Spectacular. They're very expensive and very worth it if one has the money. These were at the Blue Spiral gallery. The artists' names are problem on their site.

 This is from the original drug store from the turn of the last century, in Biltmore Village. The shop has lots of the old fittings but is a gift and furniture store.

 Monday, I relaxed in my garden. It was probably the last of the hot days for us. My honey got lots of little pumpkins on sale and put them around the tree. We're planning a party with our neighbor, again, in a couple of weeks. I hope the pumpkins last!

 It's amazing, these are day 322 cards. I'm back to the invasion of the painted woman appearing in Tiny Town.

 This one is a bit different but I think it works.

Putting this little pink nude on the landscape made me laugh. How indifferent the hunters are! ha ha ha

Now, I'm down with a cold, so I'll just hang out in the house, and drink tea, and eventually make today's mail art.

We had a lovely weekend in Asheville. The weather was perfect and we are happy that our son has a partner in life.

W day, day 319, autumn leaf color changing day

 Yesterday afternoon, before heading back to the hotel, we stopped at Green Sage for coffee. My barrista made me an autumn leaf on the top of my cappucino. Delicious.

 This morning, I got up early and made the daily mail art. More scraps from brochures. There is no lack of local material to glean.

 Yesterday morning, we took a walk up the hill behind our hotel and came on this hand hewn wood cross by a little church that looked like a house.

 We turned to go down the hill and found this sign on a fence. I think we are amongst some religiously inclined folks.

 Here are a few things that we saw in Blue Spiral gallery yesterday. I loved this ceramic bunny with funny images on it. I left the artist name in the photo so you could check her out yourself, if you want to see more of her work.

 This chicken plate appealed to me. It's so folk and happy. The artist is Sue Tirrell. She had cool mugs, too.

And how could I not be attracted to this plate of letters, letter writer that I am. You can actually read the notes.  Jennifer Kincaid is the artist. It's called Scattered Notes. It's a nice sized ceramic plate.

I didn't buy any of these pieces, but it sure was tempting. In fact, there wasn't anything I wouldn't have liked in my house in the exhibit called Clay as Canvas, at Blue Spiral.