Happy Mother's Day

If you are a woman, you are a mother, some in more traditional ways and others in less.

Mother of ideas, of friends, of designs, of writing, of poems, of animals, of parents, of art, of other peoples kids, of patients, of brothers and sisters, of communities, of societies, of husbands... SO, Happy Mother's Day Beautiful Woman! Thank you for giving birth in many ways.

I just love a give away

And I love skulls ...

My friend Brittany over at Papermoonies.com is having a give away! She makes these darling little sugar skull pins and she is giving 3 away on her blog.

Go have a look see and you never know you just might get lucky.

Red

These are the most beautiful flowers and add a light to my life. The red is brilliant.

Geranium

And... my gophers don't eat them (crossing fingers). They will even eat the garlic, just not as often. They LOVE roses and they have taken down a full grown apricot tree after (thank goodness) the first full crop. The apricots were some of the best I have ever eaten, which made it so hard to lose the tree.

One year they undermined the road (dug a hole under the road) and a big rain came and washed through the whole and washed out part of the road, when the rain was over there was a hole on the side of the road I could stand in. I am short, but it still came up to my thighs.

So I now spend time trying to find things that they won't eat. I also plant in chicken wire baskets that I make but that is no guarantee either. I drill holes in Cat litter buckets and plant in those, not so good for the bigger things though. But they don't go through those either. The buckets will also break down in a few years from the sun out here and have to be replaced. They have to be watered and fertilized more often also.

I get a perverse thrill after watering and seeing the mounds of dirt around the bucket and the plant still there. You know the movie with Bill Murray , Caddyshack ,that is real.

That's how I ended up with the huge crop of garlic I have. The gopher would dig a hole, and I would stuff a clove of garlic down there, LOL! We even have cloves of garlic in the little pathways. These don't get watered often.

It only worked for a bit and then he started on the tops of the garlic. He comes out of the ground for those. I believe the bulbs are still there, because the shoots will start again. You know the cartoons of the whole plant going into the ground a lit at a time, bit by bit, that is real people, I have seen it.

Green is green in my opinion and even if it is garlic, it is beautiful to me in the summer here. But those red flowers are divine.

5th of May

Polymer Clay Collaborative & Mixed Media Retreat

Register now!

Hi everyone, Registration has been extended to May 10th!

It's not too late to sign up for an incredible get-away week with other artists. Registrations are still being taken through May 10th for the Polymer Clay Collaborative & Mixed Media Retreat, in beautiful Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

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Take advantage of your tax refunds, and get away from your daily demands, routines, stresses!

Retreat Dates: June 1-5, priced from $375 (commuters) to $475 (single) for an entire week of free demos, three meals per day, and much more! See the retreat website for additional info about mini-workshops, the location, etc. www.pccmmretreat.com


Register now, single accommodations are still available!

Registration ends May 10th. All registrations must be postmarked by no later than May 10.
If you register during this extended period, please e-mail us to let us know that you have sent your registration. pccmmretreat@comcast.net


Mona Kissel, Syd Wellman, Anne Bowers, Heidi Spicer

www.pccmmretreat.com
www.monakissel.com

Happy May Day!!!!

The Renee award

The Renee award was created by Bella and Ces in honour of their friend Renee. In Bella's own words "this is a brand new award and I have the pleasure and honor of spreading the seed, watching it grow. I hope it finds it's way to those who are like Renee: the acorn, a small package becoming a tall and sturdy oak, giving more acorns, becoming tall and sturdy oaks, giving acorns..."
I have been honored with another award and I am proud, very proud of the first one. But the 2nd is probably going to be the highlight of my blogging career, at least for me anyway. Some of you who have met me and know me, know that I have been involved with Bottles of Hope. I found something and a person that sang to my heart in so many ways, Diane Gregoire and her Bottles of Hope. The dynamic, positive, beautiful, and wonderful woman that I met in Connecticut at the Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild would change my life for the better in oh so many ways. Thank you Diane for your gift, I have and will always treasure it.
Leigh Ross (thank you for fighting) and her Polymer Clay Central website have many pages of Bottles of Hope and this is the one I was at.
My own special and totally giving guild the San Diego Polymer clay guild is very involved in this program. We have many members and their families who have tackled this daunting killer of men and women. Our member Julie Downing is the woman with the hat sitting on my left. I miss you Julie. Thank you for fighting.
We have turned the BOH outreach into a cancer outreach.
My mother was diagnosed with Beast cancer in 2002 and is to this day a survivor. Thank you for fighting Mom, I am so grateful.
My sister in love (law) was diagnosed and died from breast cancer in 2004. Thank you for fighting Jill, I miss you sooooooooooo much!
This is only a small part of my story and so when the sweet Opps!DesperateBlogger gave me this Renee award I had no idea what a trip it was going to take me on that day. I am still a little raw from the trip. But I am so humbled by the blogs and stories I have read. Thank you, thank you, thank you, all of you, for enlightening my life with your stories. It has taken me these few days to even be able to talk about it and I love you Renee, you have another friend. Thank you for fighting. Bella and Ces, I hope I can be and have friends like you in my life, always. Bless you all. You have rocked this girls world.

Congratulations on 200 posts Opps!

This little acorn is humbled by oaks in her presence!!! I am soooooooo very grateful for being included in this group; I can not express it in words.
I am passing this on to Acorn/Oaks in my life, because life’s lessons come in some many guises. Life's gifts too.
Oddfae

Suze

Meredith
Welcome to the Singe Sisters Sorority at the Hellinback College of Hardknocks.