You can see the rest of the photos from the camera on the flickr page. I haven’t laughed this much in possibly ever. Well played Japan. And well played Tonino family.
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- Another stellar drive down the arm last night. Alaska, you be pretty, girl.When my grandmother turned 90, we threw a big party with folks from all over - took over a restaurant! Obviously, the times have changed and that isn’t a possibility for her 95th.A few summers ago there were lots of yellow and black things flying around the garden. It seems they had taken a liking to the carrot box and built a cozy little home for themselves. I was stoked to share our space with some bees, until one blasted the dog in the face and we quickly realized these were not the “save the bees” cuties, but yellow jackets straight from hell.I attended my first drag show my freshman year in college at a club which was surely 21 and over (sshhh...). My time in Buffalo found me at Club Marcella rather often. The vibe was always so welcoming and the queens were gorgeous. Vee sticks with me as being so incredibly stunning - the first fishy girl I had seen do kicks and twirl around in a legit bathing suit. She seemed to always perform to Barbie Girl, but I don’t think anyone cared it was the same song. She was gorge.I don’t think I knew that daisies were desirable in bouquets until a rather late age. They were always just wild flowers, often covered in the foam from spittle bugs, growing wild with the Queen Anne’s Lace. Years later I learned all about “he loves me, he loves me not” tween witchery of pulling the petals off....I’ve never been good at that stuff. Didn’t get the result I want? Try another and another until it works the way I wanted. 🤣I’m not sure I have much of a story for this piece, aside from how smitten I am with it. It is nothing like my original vision, but I like it so much better than the rough draft plan.I have a bit of a tough love approach to my garden and the baby plants as they are first planted for a season. I don’t toughen them up (harden off) quite as much as other folks. It’s a very sink or swim approach up in here, and surprisingly it works.We traditionally associate the color pink for girls, and blue for boys, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, prior to WWII, it was the other way around. The color blue is thought to invoke the purity and allure of the Virgin Mary, and pink, being a watered tiny human version of red (red = masculine, manly, big strong feels) was for boys. Mothers were instructed to dress children appropriately throughout the 19th and 20th century, to encourage manly individuality and feminine meekness respectively.My dad bought kayaks for my mother and I. I guarantee he has put way more miles on both of them than either of us combined. However, there’s a great story about mom trying to literally stand in the kayak to get out of it (if you have any concept of basic physics or boats at all, you know how that story ends....I would tell you, but she will disown me.) ending with the kind of silent laughter that turns humans into gasping puddles, and a split second decision on my father’s part to NOT grab her by the hair as she dumped into the water in slow motion.Pulled over to catch the #boretide on the way back to town tonight. What the hell is that? The bore tide is a rush of seawater that returns to a shallow and narrowing inlet from a broad bay. Bore tides come in after extreme minus low tides created by the full or new moon.Basketweave always keeps me a bit on my toes. Despite being straight forward knits and purls, I often get distracted and have to backtrack. Ugh.In a very Game of Thrones kinda way, winter came this year and kinda never left. That aggro little ice king wasn’t going to let go, but finally in the last week we are seeing signs of legit spring. The trees and stick dudes are budding, and I have already started my nasturtium and brassica tough love campaign. Seeds and potatoes are sown, and the mountains have just enough snow left to make a stop along the Turnagain Arm (in flip flops!) more than worth it. Today’s commute to the @gcva_gallery (I’m the Artist on Duty today!) was perfection. The kind of day that makes me feel all hashtag blessed for taking that huge leap at age 23 and moving to Alaska. It’s pretty here y’all.Have you entered the most epic giveaway to date yet??? I have joined forces with the Alaska Annies and are giving this totally awesome bundle to one lucky winner. Follow all the whosits and whatsits on the original giveaway post and you could win ALL of this!! Are you in?! Are you going to win?!?! Drawing is Wednesday May 12th at 8pm AK time.Hey y’all. Only 229 days until Christmas. 🤷🏻♀️Buzz, buzz, baby! Hand fabricated sterling silver honeycomb with brass bees. This design began as part of the earring a day project and has quickly picked up some serious steam. These particular beauties are buzzing off to @sanctuarytc in Traverse City, MI.The rhu is barbing and the chives are chiving. Seeds are sowed and the starts are screaming to get outside....soon! Stoked to get back in the garden!We treated ourselves to a little staycation in Anchorage last night - before our already nonstop life is even more nonstop until Mid-September. @hotelcaptaincook had a delicious First Friday room deal (Still available tonight! Just mention First Friday Artwalk), so we hopped on board and booked. We also sat in a restaurant for the first time since the world started burning over a year ago. It was odd. It was delicious. It was needed.It’s the Alaska Annies Giveaway!!!
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