A Time for Catching Up: This & That

My joys are simple right now.

Delicious Breakfast



New Bunting from Target



Delicious dessert at a lovely bridal shower



The garden is looking particularly lovely



Our table of donated/gifted plants overfloweth



Succulents



Succulents aplenty

 If only the birds in our garden would sit still long enough to be photographed.

Is it Time For Cake Yet?

It's getting to be a super busy time in our lives right now, and our apartment is suffering for it. James and I both have big art projects on the go, and we end up sharing the dining room table - he frames on it in the morning, I cut fabric and sew on it in the evenings. And in the meantime, we have piles of fabric, sketchbooks, matboards, laundry and dirty dishes stacked everywhere. (The dishes aren't really our fault - our apartment had no hot water over the weekend and we're still not caught up once it was turned back on.)

Here's what we got up to before life got so hectic:


Enjoying a beautiful southern California day



Saw a fabric exhibition at The Muckenthaler in Fullerton - don't you love the Spanish tiles?



Succulents at The Muck

 

Time out in the garden



Our sweetpeas are growing



The first of the ranunculus at Trader Joe's



There was a huge sale at Art Supply Warehouse. So huge that the lines extended allllll the way back into the asiles. This is where I waited for over half an hour, suck next to the Fimo.



The cash registers are now in sight



At home with linolium blocks, acrylic paint in Raw Umber, a new paintbrush, a brayer, a baren, and a photo portfolio book

 Coming up, I've got this art project to finish, photos to go out and take, a choir concert to sing in, Easter music to be mastering, the day-to-day of work, laundry, dishes, food etc, a wedding to attend, and then it will be the end of April and my husband's parents will be arriving from London just in time for his 30th! I need a slice of cake just thinking about it all.

Taking Some Time

Ranunculus

Plant Assortment

Hanging Baskets

Schwinn

Tomatos, Rosemary, Oregano, Geraniums

Chili

Recreation

The gallery I work in has an annual juried exhibtion with a local art league every spring. Beverly, one of the lovely artists who participates, came in this week bearing gifts of sweet pea and poppy bouquets and offers of succulents from her garden to anyone who was interested. Off I motored to her house after work, and returned home with a trunk laden full of goodies. James and I spent Wednesday in the small patio area we call a garden with our plants, both new and old. (Well, he spent the time in the garden planting, I swept and lit candles. I'm hopeless when it comes to gardening.) At the end of the day, we pulled our chairs from the dining nook outside to enjoy a glass of wine and a can of beer among the candles and potted goodness. (That's me in the last photo, wearing my latest favorite long cardi from Urban Outfitters. I really shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist...)