Green Faerie Tree

Happy Monday to everyone and I hope your weekend was a good one. My husband returned from his job interview in Texas and he says that the offer letter is on the way! So we will be moving from foggy Northern California to steamy hot Texas! I am not looking forward to the heat at all, but am excited about every other part of this move.

Totally unrelated to our move is this article that I found this morning in the New York Times. article It is about young people in Moscow that call themselves “roofers”. They gain access to the rooftops of the city however they can and then enjoy the freedom of being up high. This pastime has become quite popular, and of course there are blogs devoted to these “roofers”. I went to the blog link that was in the article and found some pretty cool photos there. blog link

My vegetable garden really is the best ever this summer, all of the plants are so healthy and green. I have been watering less this year and perhaps that’s the reason for my success. Well whatever the reason I’m just happy about how everything is flourishing.

How has your week been? Mine has been pretty busy because of a possible move. My husband is in Texas right now on a job interview, which means we may be moving to the state of Texas! I’m actually kind of excited about this possibility, with the exception of the heat, Texas seem like a great place to live. The past few days I have been going through everything in the house and getting rid of things that I just don’t need anymore. I am worried about the move though because it would involve having a moving company do the work. I have been researching the moving companies and am quite worried about what I have found because it seems that there is absolutely nothing to stop them from stealing whatever they want! I will just keep on researching this, try not to stress and believe in a positive outcome.
I did have a good time at my art sale last week even though I hardly sold anything. I was happy with my set-up and saw where I can make improvements. The main thing was that both my husband and I enjoyed ourselves, and we know that it will be fun to do it again.

Yeah, I am ready for my art sale on Sunday, everything is finished and priced. I am going to do a practice set up of my pavilion tomorrow, because I want it to look as good as it can on the Big Day. I will be sure to take some photo’s of how it looks!

Have been having some fun with my dolls this week, taking a few pics and deciding on new eyes for a few of them. I have also decided on selling a few more dolls, this time Bodhi, my Lati White is leaving, and so is Mayday, my Blythe Fancy Pansy. I think that I have mentioned here before that I enjoy the process of selling dolls almost as much as buying new ones.

The Fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays because of memories about this day from my past. My mother handed down one of her favorite traditions to me, which is popovers, strawberries and champagne for the Fourth of July breakfast. This year it was the husband and myself celebrating alone. The plan was a trip to the beach for swimming and smash-ball, but it was foggy and cold there, so instead we went for a long hike on a creekside trail in Pescadero. Hope you all had a wonderful time doing your favorite things!!

I have been busy getting ready to sell my artwork at a fair next week, which is something that I haven’t done in a very long time. I had to re-think the setting up and decorations for my pavilion for a few reasons. One of the reasons is that I am selling different things now and so need a different set up, and the other reason is because I no longer have the old fabric that I used for the pavillion wall hangings. This time around I dyed some old gauzy curtains that belonged to my grandmother and will use them for the back wall. One of the things that I have for sale is something new for me to make. Wind-chimes made from glass with exotic wood used for the top piece, and I am happy with how they look and sound.

The last of the photo’s from our trip to Virginia last week.

We were in Virginia last week visiting husbands relatives. Had a great time seeing the sites during the day and going for walks in the evenings. We went out for meals quite a bit, and the most memorial meal was in a restaurant at the Atlanta Airport, I had fried catfish, macaroni cheese and collard greens. It was awesome!!

This is a car for me! I love jeeps and this one fills my expectations of what a true jeep should look like. It’s rugged but sweet, startling in it’s simplicity but also the coolest looking car I’ve ever seen. The price tag for this car? It’s starts at “around” $80,000. A little out of my price range, but I can dream.
The info on this car can be found here newyorktimesarticle

I had never seen one of these films until my husband introduced them to me, and I have loved every one of them that I have seen since. This past weekend we watched Totoro and it is my new favorite!

“> promo trailer
“> A Documentary
“> Studio Ghibli Museum
“> Music video mix

For my first bjd in the 28 cm size range I chose a doll from the Soom company Link because I liked the fantasy parts of these dolls better than any other. I also like that these Soom dolls have a fantasy story, and that they have new releases every month, which they call “Monthly Doll”. This began in 2008, here to find out more.
I recently purchased my first Soom Monthly Doll from the Den of Angels marketplace, and mine is Beyla from August 2009. She came with an extra pair of legs with unicorn hoofs that are easy to attach, along with an extra pair of hands. In the story Beyla represents the element of light.

The Soom company, along with quite a few of the other companies that sell the BJD dolls have a layaway plan that you can use for purchasing their dolls. I just put the latest Monthly Doll on layaway, this one, Grit is a Gargoyle and is the Guardian.

I know that I’ve said it before here on this blog that I love going to Big Sur for the day. My husband and I went there this past Saturday and here are a few photo’s to share with you

Photo From the Los Angeles Times

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It is a rainy Tuesday Morning, and happy June first to you. I do love my husband, but I also love my peaceful time alone when he is away working. I am still in bed this morning, with my computer and a hot cup of coffee while listening to the rain softly falling outside my windows and looking through my bookmarks for what I want to blog about today. I did save this article a few weeks ago about a family that moved to Vietnam and restored a shabby old house into something that is for me very warm and romantic NewYorkTimesArticle

The family that restored this home wanted it to have an old French/ Vietnamese Country Look. They salvaged materials from old French warehouses that were being torn down and used them for this two story 940-square foot structure that sits on a fifth of an acre in Ho Chi Minh City.
I have had dreams of Vietnam ever since seeing Anh Hung Tran’s films “The Scent of Green Papaya” and my most favorite movie ever “The Vertical Ray of The Sun” Another movie that I loved was Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “The Lover”