Sunday, February 26, 2012

one of my vintage pear models

Always on the hunt for vintage earrings
 I love being able to share them with my daughters.
Below is my eldest wearing a great vintage pair.

My daughter, is one of my best customers
 and a beautiful model for the earrings I up-cycle.
Here she is wearing a pair of faux turquoise earrings
that were up-cycled from uncomfortable clips to pierced.  
I think it goes beautifully with the scarf she is wearing!
Oh, I can't resist showing off my my granddaughter!
Here she is with her inseparable "mow". 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

quinoa and hummus

Visiting my daughter, son-in-law, and grandaughter in AZ last week was a real treat in so many ways!  My daughter is mother extraordinaire, overcoming her own hurdle of fighting Crohn's disease and makes sure her family eats healthy.  Every morning was a fresh and organic experience of eggs, ("what way do you want them this morning mom?") raw vegetables, sprouted wheat toast and strong coffee.  Lunch was homemade THIN crusted pizza topped with fresh spinach leaves, homemade tomato sauce, Parmesean or Feta and other raw veggies.  YUM!  So much more to comment about but it would take too long so just suffice it this way---the rest of our time intertwined with the beautiful weather of Arizona's February and all was good!

I know we have "Whole Foods" here in the midwest, but well, my "Whole Family" has this to say.  Arizona's Costco and Arizona's "Whole Foods" is better than ours here in the midwest.  (I have to agree.)  To mention a few of  my personal "must-haves" --when in AZ-- are--  Costco: Texas Caviar and their locally baked sprouted wheat bread.  Whole Foods Salad Bar Items:  purple quinoa, parsely and sallion hummus, tabouli, and whole grain tabouli --among other assorted items. I am now hooked on Quinoa, which has been said to be the perfect grain--it's high in magnesium and protein.  I have now decided with the influence of my healthy eating daughter that hummus is my new dairy substitute--so creamy and can be made is so many ways.  I think the parsely and scallion hummus played a big part in this.  BUT HEY--One step closer to a much more healthier lifestyle of eating!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

air safety

I think I've changed my mind about traveling through airports.   The airport security staff and others at the airport now make it unpleasant and military.  Perhaps those of you under the age of 35 are resilient enough to be accepting of all the new protocols for "safety".  For me, right now, it's difficult to recognize the country I live in any longer.  I don't like to be told to take off my shoes, get x-rayed (every time now), shed my jacket....and oh...yeah...don't forget that pretty scarf around your neck has to come off and go through the xray too!  The air of "suspicion" for me is overwhelming. Necessary?  Who really knows!  Perhaps having  Peter Weir's, "The Way Back"--a novel about a group of prisoners who escape from a Siberian Gulag camp during World War II accompany me for reading sure didn't help my frame of mind!  AND enduring the most turbulant airplane rides this time around AND having one of my ears close up on me due to the cold I was fighting didn't help either!

Friday, February 3, 2012

keep or sell?

I made these on a whim and thought I would sell them.
But after looking for more vintage cross findings and
coming up empty handed--I realized how special these are.