Little Miss

Well, there's about to be a new baby in town. My friend and business partner is expecting a girl and she thought it would be a good idea to let my 5 yr old help her name this new bundle of joy. The result of that meeting of the minds is: Lula Marigold. I think it certainly has a ring to it.

We held a Reuse-Repurpose-Recycle baby shower a couple of weeks ago. My lovely friend, April, helped with the food. I cannot tell a lie. We were so heavily complimented on our spread, we've considered working on some small catering jobs. We'll see....

The gifts were all used, repurposed or handmade items. She's using cloth diapers this time around and hit the goldmine on those new-fangled wrap around velcro jobbies. They also make nice party hats for grown-ups! 

The picture below cracks me up. That doll lay at her feet with it's neck wrenched around for the entire party. 

 We had a good time. 

Best shower I've ever hosted. 

Now, I can't wait to love me up some new baby!

Goofy Goddesses

During prep for this weekend's festival, we got a wild hair to photograph our latest belly cast.
We don't get around to photographing things like we should so we felt it was a prime opportunity. Leah manned the camera.
And boy, oh boy!
She took some real gems of me.

By the way, do you like that outfit? Black socks with no shoes really completes it, I think.
We were elbow deep in putty, caulk, primer and paint when Leah arrived, if it's any excuse.

This was the first time I'd seen the cast since Leah painted it. It was green with antiquing and a faded brown flower/vine. It's beautiful but I teased her and expressed my concern that it would look like a decomposing body. So in that vein, we decided to lay it in the yard.


First the ivy, then the clover. Fun, fun, fun... It took many tries to get that beauty of a photo in the previous post. And I still altered the colors somewhat in Photoshop.


We had plenty of fun being goofy. Leah thought we should get it with the bark of the Crepe Myrtle but the more we tried, the more finish we lost. Oopsie! More Polyurethane!


Then she wanted me to act as if I was standing behind one of those photo boards that you put your head in at Disney and Dollywood. I did my best.

And here is the end result.

Isn't that something?

Mother Nature

God. That's beautiful.