Saturday, November 21, 2009
Shoe Worthy
Friday, November 20, 2009
Linda Lovelace
The following is a letter I received from one of my most precious friends. This is the actual email that three of her most near and dear received. The only change I made was to put in dirty to clarify what she was watching and to change her beloved, not with us anymore husband Fred to Bob so none of you would know who I am talking about. Very very clever, wouldn't you say? Oh, and did I mention that this BFF is closer to eighty than seventy years of age? You are only as old as you feel. Having said that, and just completed 18.5 hours in the car, I can't even hazard a guess as to how old I am right now!!!!
I just finished watching an Oprah show on pornography and erotica. According to the show, one out of three women are into porn. I'm not, so I'm wondering which of you are. I'd like to know which sites you visit, so I can check them out and see what I'm missing. bob I'm so pissed at myself. I have watched a few dirty movies with Bob and always told him I could do a much better job of directing and producing. I probably could have done a better job of acting, too. Now I find out I probably missed a calling, since some of the most successful producers are women. I always knew they'd be better with a woman's touch. Why wasn't I smart enough to pursue that dream? Anyway, anything you have to offer on this subject will be appreciated. I just hate being out of the loop. This email is too precious for words. |
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
What We Do On Road
While watching tv last night I saw that ABC is having a new reality show about finding your birth parents. It's a weird concept and somehow seems illegal. Oh well.
Also
we saw a advertisement for a microfridge and looked it up and there actually is one. You can figure out the concept.
We spent many minutes trying to remember Mondale's running mate for President. I could picture her in my brain but couldn't remember anything about her name. Can you remember?
Something else we looked up while talking about Cher and her daughter/son Chaz was what did the little toe head Elijah Blue Allman look like now. Here he is and he is a musician.
We (G and me) had questions about Eric Clapton and as to whether he had any other kids besides the little four year old Conor, that accidentally fell out of a skyscraper window when he was four. Eric is married. He and his wife, Melia, have three daughters - Julie Rose (b. June 2001), Ella Mae (b. January 2003) and Sophie (b. February 2005). The couple married on 1 January 2002.Eric’s eldest child is his daughter, Ruth (b. January 1985).
His son, Conor (b. August 1986), died on 20 March 1991 when he fell from a window in his mother’s New York City apartment.
We heard this term used in regards to the current going's on within the cast of Grey's Anatomy.Jumping the Shark is
a term to describe a moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline in quality and popularity.
Origin of this phrase comes from a Happy Days episode where the Fonz jumped a shark on water skis. Thus was labeled the lowest point of the show.
Lobster Ravioli
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Good Graces
Monday, November 16, 2009
Citrus Sunday
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Let's Go Clubbing
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tickled
it out of my mind. My gal pal did this. Can I be any prouder of her? Maybe if she bowled a perfect game but otherwise, naw. There is now a black and white shoe but it wasn't finished before the 'photo shoot' of all the other girls. Wednesday, November 11, 2009
TipTeeToe-In Technicolor
It seems like it took forever, but now she has the colors and the prototypes and the shoe is off and running. Don't you just love all the colors she has picked? It makes you want to take up the sport, or if nothing else, get the hell going and shop for matching outfits. That's my plan anyway! Congrats Mick; I can't believe how you have persevered and made this a reality. As the Virginia Slims ad will tell you, you've come a long way baby!Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Levi
Monday, November 09, 2009
Step It Up
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Oh Baby!
This is the book by Amy Bradley who is the designer for the quilt I showed you yesterday. The wall hanging

Here is a very cute quilt for a girl, called Doll Babies, and you can find it at Quilt Soup.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
The Blues
Friday, November 06, 2009
What Not To Wear
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Tainted
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
What To Wear?
Here we have the current and last First Lady. Gee, I can't quite figure out why all the fuss is made about Michelle's great clothing style. But then, that's just me.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
The Eye's Have It

The initial procedure takes about thirty seconds of actual surgery (if that's what you want to call it) and ten hours of waiting and appointments. Those lasers are like the stealth bombers; you tell them where to go and you could be doing the Jive (influenced by last nights DWTS) and it would find it's spot.
Monday, November 02, 2009
Busy, Busy
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Charming Treasures
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween!! We will be spending the day on the road so I guess we are dressed as travelers..
I think the last time we dressed up was a couple years ago when we went with an already worn Captain Hook and Peter Pan. I reconstituted the outfits (got the cobwebs off and gave them a press) from the last time we went to a dress up Halloween party. I actually hot glued the moustache on G’. Let me think of other things we wore in the past. One year we were a cub scout and a brownie. I got the blue shirt and pants for G at Sears in the worker guy section and then got all the cub scout stuff at the same place I got my brownie dress; J.C. Penney. I borrowed a sash that already had tons of patches on it. I liked that outfit. One year we went to a party as John DeLorean and I was a bag of coke. We went as cowboy and cowgirl. I still have all the costumes in a couple big plastic containers. I keep thinking that they will come in handy someday.
We were thinking of the Halloween costumes that the kids wore when they were young. Peter’s first was the typical hobo with colored patches sewn on a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a stick with a stuffed bandana. He was seven months and never made it to a doorstep. The next year he was superman and went to a couple houses but just wanted to sit down on the doorstep and eat the candy. His diaper in a pair of tights come to mind. Maggie’s first was some sleeper that was an animal; I think a pig. She was three months old. For some reason I can’t remember Peter’s third year costume.
They were matching clowns one year. One side of the suit was black and one was white with red pompoms and pointed hats. There was the year that Peter was a football player and Maggie was a fifties chick. One year Maggie went as a ballerina and Peter was Robin Hood.
After a phone call to Maggie I can add a jogger (very clever) and Pippi Longstocking to her costume repertoire. After a phone call from Pete, I could add a jogger (again, very clever) to his list. Once they went as a monk and a nun. I made all the costumes but of course the kids would have much rather had the boxed costumes that came from the grocery store that were one piece and tied closed in the back, accompanied by a plastic face mask.
There’s no making those kids happy……. It reminds me that we always had homemade cookies in our lunches and all I dreamed of was store bought.. Go figure.
Friday, October 30, 2009
On The Road Again ( A Willy Nelson Song)
Bella is such a good traveler, never making a fuss or anything. She has her own car seat and sits in it or lays in it for hours. Even tho' we stop to let her go do her 'busy' she never does on the road. She is never hungry and rarely thirsty.
Last night when I had my farewell cocktail and appetizer with Micky, she showed me this new fantastic app for our iPhone. It's called MyPantone. She actually used the Pantone palette to pick out the colors for her golf shoe prototypes. By the way, she received 9 pair of her patented golf shoe TipTeeToe (the wedge heeled golf shoe she designed) from China, this past week. Now she is planning on heading out for a trade show to get the marketing started.
For $9.99 you can get a paint palette which you can manipulate to group colors, have the app pick corresponding colors and lots of other fun stuff. There are other color apps like Palettes ($9.99), colorID, for ($.99), Colorstrology (free), Color Expert ($9.99), or ColorToy ($2.99). They are wonderful tools for choosing colors, either for quilts, decor, or clothing. Check these out; you will be very impressed. If I do get pantone, it will be the only app I have paid for except for Jeopardy ($4.99) which was SO WORTH IT!!! When I am waiting, it passes the time and it makes me feel smart, where as bowling makes me feel stupid.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Greening Up
Turning trash into art.
Wind power.
Turning trash into art and green architecture.
Wind power.
Eating green.
Plant based diet.
Urban greening.
Trash into art.
Wind Power (again).
Greening your home.
Residential recycling.Wednesday, October 28, 2009
TidBits
I am off for an early morning hair cut and I think I am gonna go shorter today. It might be the weather change, or bodily change (because the hair products remain the same) but my hair isn't doing what it used to so it's time for a change. I even thought I might see what my grey looks like this winter because we don't have much in the way of pressing social engagements. I figure starting short would be better for that. That's not to say that I will carry through with this or that if I do I will remain au - natural. There is grey I like and grey I don't. My family has the don't kind so I am not holding out much hope that I will like mine. Okay, that was officially boring.
I cried at the end of Biggest Loser last night. That Abby is a sweetheart. I told G, it was the tearing up factor that goes along with the winding down of a little cold. It didn't matter tho', about the lie, cauz' he has his earphones on and just gave me that oh so pleasant nod of his.
Sadly, we had windows broken out of two cars in the middle of the night and discovered them mid morning yesterday. What a pain in the ass that is. Insurance, police, cleanup, new phone (G's), service, loaner. Yuck. My car is always safe and sound in the garage, locked up to keep safe my thirty eight reusable grocery bags that have completely taken over the car. We have had a little crime lately (other smashed windows and bashed in mail boxes) and on a positive note, the coppers did find the mail box abusers and are rigorous in their pursuit of the smash and grabbers. It's desperate times we're havin'.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares:
These great questions and answers are from the days when ' Hollywood Squares' game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course..
Q.. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)
Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A.. Rose Marie: No wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency..
Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say 'I Love You'?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty..
Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A.. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures..
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark..
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?
Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh
Posting With No Photos Is A Drag
I belong to a guild but have never been one for meetings of any type so I pretty much just get involved in the quilt show that they have every other year. I neglected to rejoin the guild this summer (I am a subscription member because I rarely cross the state line for a guild meeting) and now I find myself having to re-up and register all the quilts that could be in the show before we take off for Florida. What a pain in the neck. I usually come back from Florida for the show but I have decided not to this time. I will have to rely on my friends to submit my quilts at the appropriate time to get into the show and then to get the quilts back after the show. Oh, and I forgot- there is one quilt that isn't even sewn together yet. Oh dear.
It is difficult to post when I know I can't use anything visual. So what am I up to? I am trying to organize and make kits for a new car project. I have spent the last two years of car travel working on my baby bear quilts and now find that in four days I will need to start on something new. That is what I plan on doing today. I also am going to wash and shrink wool sweaters from The Salvation Army for another project that may work well as a Christmas gift. The studio needs major cleaning from having lots of work completed by my pals this past weekend. Factor in the fact that it's bowling day, and I have my work cut out for me. I had better get goin'.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Blogger Bull
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This the first I have ever heard about this. Has anyone else out there had experience with this? I am quite confident that I have not posted more than I normally do. I am confused and have to deliberate about this today before I take any action and may like to hear from others that know about this.
So the pictures you don't get to see are from this weekend. I neglected to blog over the weekend because Thursday I came down with a cold and because I had company for the weekend, I took Benedryl at bedtime to help with the drip down my throat. I normally get up before the company does, which gives me blogging time but under the influence of drugs I slept later than normal and the days started a bit differently than normal. Anyway, what started out with four for the weekend ended up being two, due to other plans and illness. I still have a cold but thankfully, it never got any worse than a little cough and the drip drip drip which makes me crazy. My sister Mike got the flu.
I have to take Bella in to get her hair done.
Friday, October 23, 2009
They Are Making It Pretty Easy For Us
padded on one side and directions on the other. You take it up to the checkout desk and they unlock the case, open it up, place a AAA battery in it, give you a free strap for your neck (that you get to keep),
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Parlez-vous francais?
I was clearing out my inbox in my email and forgot that Regina sent me pictures of my teen angel ,
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Pole Dancer
and a close up of it.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tuesday Morning
Monday, October 19, 2009
Lovely Quilts
This quilt, hanging in Houston was done for a water theme exhibition in Canada where Martha Brown, the artist, lives and did her work on 'Tap Dance Finale'. I love the name. Very clever Martha!!
This kinda reminds me of my quilt. It is called 'Stepping Out In St John, New Brunswick' by Judy Morningstar. She noticed the architecture was slightly off kilter while teaching quilting workshops there.
Here is a close up. Just remember, these photos were all taken on an iPhone. I am amazed by the good quality.
I should have straightened this quilt photo but now I have wasted way too much time this morning so it ain't gonna happen. This is called 'Incommunicado' by Esterita Austin, from New York, and shows the woman busying herself with her mirror and lipstick and the man on the cell phone, playing or texting. It is a perfect reflection of life with all the technology taking over regular conversation.
Desiree Habicht, from Riverside, California, did this quilt 'Glass Beach'. Being a collector of beach glass myself, I can relate to the appeal of the rounded and no longer threatening pieces of glass that the surf and sand have worked together to round off the sharp edges.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Talk about lighting!!!
When I was sent this picture of my quilt, 'Say Cheese' from the IQA, I thought they may have soaked it in paraffin before hanging it!!! It has a very eerie look to it. That just goes to show you what lighting and the difference in camera's can make.