Elflog and a garden

The shelf looks a bit bedraggled due to the rain we had yesterday. It was draped with a holiday "ribbon" and some sprigs of pine. Something left a red stain, maybe a candy that dissolved in the rain. A few blocks from the shelf, I came upon this lovely garden, with decorative cabbage and brilliant red stemmed chard (or kale?)

Elflog and found art

Two days, the shelf. I really like the wire love with the flower, held in place by the blue ribbon pin. I wanted to take it, but I , also, wanted someone else to have it. I put the santa hatted bear in place, hoping it would find a new home. It's gone now.



I found this painting in the alley a block away from our house. I hope it stays awhile.

Holiday season fun.

Our friend , Jude, is a glass artist. Each year, she invites family and friends to make their own gift. Her studio is our workshop, with lots of supplies to use for our creations. Here we are in the creative process and here are some of the pieces before they are fired. I'll posted mine after firing. I hope they turn out nicely. Even if they don't, it was great fun, and the music was good, too. Oh yes, so was the food, and the people.

Holiday season

I went to a lunch at a neighbors house last week. A couple years ago, while she was working on her second book, on the history of interior design, she created a lunch group for herself. Neighbors, friends, colleagues, former students, gather for lunch monthly when they are able to come. Here's a view of her tree and her table setting for the Dec. lunch, which she did at her home. Twelve of us attended, our largest group of the year, I think. conversation was lively, warm holiday cheer. Thanks Buie!

Tea Time - a Mail Art call

This is a reminder that I've posted a mail art call .
Check it out and participate. It's free, it's fun, it's Mail Art.

We're doing a mail art show at Carytown Teas in March 2008. I'm hoping that lots of people will participate and make this a really big show, or a small interesting show.

Elflog

While we were away, the shelf continued! I was so happy to see that the neighborhood kept the fun going. Here are two photos I took with my 'phone (imagine me without my camera, but doesn't the 'phone take great pix?) the first few days we were back from our trip. The first photo has an arrangement of stones on a leaf. Two of the stone were ones that I'd put there a long time ago, were taken away, and now returned. I felt like they were a welcome home sign for me. The second photo shows the shelf with a sugar packet and a dreidel on it. I took the dreidel home!

Paris, the Cité, au revoir

I took a few pix for the folks who've been to the Cité, and anyone else interested, showing the reception area, with the 'phone we use to make outgoing calls, our mailboxes, some of the folks we'd see each day as we went out and came back, and the tall Christmas tree they'd just installed. Our bags packed, the BHV bag with our last trash ready to drop in the poubelle (trash can,) we say au revoir. Nous reviendrons.