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This weekend was spent mostly with grandkids and getting ready for my one woman show on Friday. With their Mom off to a military spouse blogger’s event and their Dad off to Reserve Military Duty…it was my turn to have the gkids all … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Vacations, Collage, Family, Humor, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, beautiful life, collage, color, country life, family, Farm-to-table food, grandkids, home, humor, Whole foods
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Cock-a-Leekie or Feather Fowlie on Hogmany!
Every ethnic group and region has it’s New Year’s Traditions..not the least of which are special foods to augur in a New Year on a delicious note! Being in a military family, we have welcomed in a New Year in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Family, Humor, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, beautiful life, Cock-A-Leekie Soup, country life, culture, family, Farm-to-table food, Feather Fowlie, friends, funny, Hogmany, humor, Italy, New Year, Scottish Celebrations, Whole foods
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December Birthdays
I recently celebrated a birthday…not a hugely memorable one…just another ordinary one, but precious because it was spent with family and friends and I enjoyed myself so much! Birthdays for me now are a mixed blessing. Happy that I have survived … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Family, Humor, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, beautiful life, beauty, birthdays, cancer, Christmas, country life, culture, family, Farm-to-table food, Festivals of Light, friends, funny, home, humor, Pacific Northwest
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Shadow Work
No not that kind. Shadow Work is a term that was coined 30 years ago by the Austrian philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Shadow work was all the unpaid labor — including, for example, housework — done in a wage-based … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Family, Humor, Painting, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, beautiful life, beauty, country life, culture, economics, Farm-to-table food, friends, gardens, Italy, jobs, shadow work, US economy, Whole foods
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Welcome Home Lasagna
I am happy to say that my son-in-law is finally home from the Middle East after being gone for over 13 months! The happy reunion was this past Saturday, and he has spent some quality family time with my daughter … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Family, Humor, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, beautiful life, culture, family, Farm-to-table food, gardens, home, humor, Italy, lasagna, Whole foods
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Paint Techniques – Blending
One of the biggest challenges most beginning painters face is learning how to blend colors. Blending in acrylics can be a particular challenge because of how fast acrylics dry. Just as painting with oils has its challenges too because the … Continue reading
Birdfest and Lettuce Wraps!
This was a busy weekend…for a change. After my weekly Saturday yoga class (namaste) I was relaxed, peaceful, and in a zen-like state before I descended on my daughter’s always robust household for some coffee and conversation, only to land in … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Humor, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, autumn, beautiful life, Birdfest, country life, Craft Fairs, culture, family, friends, funny, gardens, grandkids, local artists, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, W, Washington Festivals, water fowl, wildlife photos
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Stone Soup
Gardens are ripe and ready for the picking all over the area. I have been giving an abundance of zucchini away at record speed and still I have oodles more coming on. The cucumbers are loaded this year, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged congressional cooperation, Hurricane Irene, jobs programs, politics, soup, tax loopholes, vegetables
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Farm Fresh Art
Posted from Portland Plein Air an Studio Artists:YOU are Invited! First Friday in Hawthorne,”Farm Fresh Art”, September 2, 6-9pm Mercato Fine Art Gallery is joining forces with Kruger’s Farm Market and five regional artists to bring fresh original art to … Continue reading
Weeds in my Beautiful Life
Weeding, weeding, weeding! That seems like all I have been doing in the yard lately. Our late, wet summer has produced a bumper crop of weeds and everyone is complaining. I have a bad tendency to put things off too … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Vacations, Humor, Painting, Uncategorized, Whole Food Blogs
Tagged art, art instruction, beautiful life, beauty, color, country life, culture, Farm-to-table food, France, home, Impressionists, painting in layers, Plein Air Painting, Sunflower fields, wet into wet painting, Whole foods
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