Boxes & Bottles

These 1

are making these 2 look attractive

1 boxes of NutriSystem food

2 bottles of wine

Some Big Trees

So while I expected to be amazed by the sheer size of the Coastal Redwoods of Muir Woods, I did not expect to be moved to tears...

And I also didn't expect the young man behind me to lean over and plant a big sloppy one on one of the trees, but [shrug] whatever...

An Obsession

has taken over my viewpoint here lately.

I love Blue & White...as in dishes...as in linens...as in just about anything...and I do not think this deep and abiding fondness for Blue & White is doing anything but getting worse!

But I've never really had a lot of Blue & White going on in my decorating...I think I always thought Blue & White belonged with the crisp & cleaner jewel tones or soft spring colours...

That is about to Change....I've discovered that I love Blue & White with all of my Autumn Decorating Colours...

Blue & White with Deep Oranges...fabulous

Blue & White with Yellow-Tans...lovely

Blue & White with Olive Greens...that's right...Dynamite

But I not only am beginning to gather more Blue & White for the House, I'ma gathering it for Decking Myself, too...

Weekend before last, one of my SILs and I visited the local university's plant sale...and one of the ladies checking us and our ridiculously large plant purchases out was dressed all in Blue & White! and sported several gorgeous Blue & White ceramic bead bracelets piled on one wrist...

Yes, I drooled...and no, she didn't share where those wonderful beads came from...

I looked on e-bay, surfed the net ,finding only 1 bracelet that seemed sorta close to hers...but I didn't love it enough to shell out $10 plus shipping...'cause I'm cheap like that...and because I wanted at least 3 of them...

So I took myself to the local Big Box store & bought these

(there are lots of more of them, but these are the ones I dumped out of their little packets...'cause I get impatient like that)

and made myself a bracelet...with lots more beads leftover to make more bracelets...

I'd appreciate it greatly if ya'll ignore the pasty dry skin in my photograph...let's just say I'm not religious about moisturizing my skin...

I'm pretty sure I didn't do the end pieces like a bead-savvy person would do them (that would be why there is no photograph of pasty skin with bracelet clasp), but they work...but I think when I get back from San Francisco, I'll check a bead book out of the library and learn the proper way to put one's clasps onto the bracelet..

The Fat Lady Has Sung...

and my own semi-private Pity Party is over and done with




thanks for the words of understanding & not askin' me to bend over so I could receive some swift Kicks in the Rear...it must have been a Chocolate Moment and I didn't realize it in time to stuff something nice and fattening in my mouth to staunch the hormonal storm front passin' through Mrs G-Ville...


Anyhoo...I shall not only embrace my All Too Outward Renaissance Woman ('cause that is what ya'll were callin' me, ri-ght?...well...we'll leave that alone because Renaissance Woman sounds better than ScatterBrained), but I shall celebrate her...

Maybe she needs a name of her own...


I'll have to think on that one*...

(but I'm gettin' a good vibe from "Myrtle")