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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- Proud plant mom moment: my #frizzlesizzle is about to bloom. Unlike most plants which go dormant in the winter, this guy is the most active. The flower symbolizes the end of the year’s cycle, and the plant will slowly fall back after the bloom fades. It’s a super cool plant - curly, swirly stalks - and I heart her.I have a lot of plants in the house (see previous post) and have a super cool frizzle sizzle which is about to bloom. The bummer about flowers is that they are the symbol that the plant is about to die/go dormant/go to seed. This is true with all flowers. It’s funny how something so beautiful symbolizes the end of the plants life. Circle of life, ya know?Have you entered the totally awesome giveaway yet? I have teamed up some some of my favorite powerhouse jewelry makers in Alaska, and we have a SWEET giveaway happening. Go enter on yesterday’s post. Drawing on February 26th. You WON’T want to miss this.“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” - Frances Hodgson BurnettMy ex-husband didn’t like my plant obsession and relegated most of my green babies to my brick and mortar storefront. After he was kindly asked to get the ___ out, the plants came home as I blasted “Welcome to the Jungle”. At last count there are 78 green babies in the small space I call home, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.•••I’m thrilled to announce that I have joined three incredibly talented jewelry artists for a GIVEAWAY! We want to thank you for supporting our small Alaskan businesses.I am super stoked to be one of the First Friday artists at @stephanfinearts next Friday (March 5th) and smart talkers during Becky’s fabulously curated art soireé on Saturday the 6th. I’m prepping a spring themed collection for the gallery, and I couldn’t be more excited to show it off. Go check out the event on Facebook (click “going” and you are automatically entered to win a giveaway prize) and buckle up - this new collection is so fun! Hoory, art!!Spanish, as a language, and I have a very complicated relationship. I took it as an AP class in middle school, meaning I took freshman and sophomore Spanish during my 7th and 8th grade years. This fulfilled my language requirement for high school, and my *super* helpful guidance councelor (helpful only in that she was really insistent on number 2 pencils) advised against going further, so I took more art classes. Fast forward to college, and we have a language requirement again. Bonus: I have fulfilled my Spanish 101 obligation - 4 years earlier. Not bonus: Definitely not ready to hop into Spanish 102 - girl, it’s been 4 years.I basically just rowed across the Atlantic, in my living room, with some TLC gems playing in the background. This salad after the sweat is basically the best thing I have ever had.Saturday night still life: Hedgehog on an antique shoe box (holding tatting material), with LEGO sand person, and some kids books from 1933. There’s also a Polish family bible from 1902 in the mix. Baga Chips, the battle hamster takes guard duty very seriously.While I am a pretty great cook (and, like, super humble about it), I am simply a servicable baker. I can get the job done, but you won’t find me on Bake Off anytime soon. Cooking is intuitive to me and uses measurements like “a little” of this “that much” of that and “until it looks right”. These super technical methods don’t work for baking. It is literally a science, and if your maths are off, your bakes will be less than stellar.There is a stone house near where I grew up which I have lusted over for as long as I can remember. Since I was a kid, I have dreamed of living in a stone house in the woods, surrounded by trees, wild flowers and filled to the rafters with antique treasures and beautiful sentimental pieces. I could absolutely make an old cast iron kitchen range work, and think handcrafted wooden bowls and hanging herbs would fit right in, with a small jar of flowers from outside.I don’t want to say they are the cutest dogs ever...but they are in a calendar and a soon to be published coffee table book. 🤷🏻♀️I did the summer camp thing a few times as a kid. I don’t recall being super stoked about it, but I kept going back (I have never been one of those “let’s sing songs around a fire, braid each other’s hair, engage with strangers or hug literally anyone” kinda people). I hung out at DEC sponsored camps in the Adirondack mountains, and learned to right a sinking canoe, hang a bear bag of food, and took my hunter safety course, in between capturing the flag and swimming in leech filled lakes.This girl will be 15 next month. She’s a little slower, and sleeps a little more, but there’s still a whole lot of love there. And sometimes rice.I'm not really into the thing where adult women want to run off into the ocean and become mermaids. Probably because I find the ocean to be a terrifying place, but that doesn't mean I'm not cheering you on from the beach (look out for that shark over there though...).Look what landed today...! 2021 pennies! Class of 2021 penny necklaces and keychains just hit the Etsy shop. These make pretty awesome grad gifts (because cars are so cliché)!I like to think I stood up for kids that got picked on. I once actually pushed a kid that was over a foot taller than me into a locker and got in his face because he was pushing “the weird kid” around. Violence should never beget violence, but I do know he (Joe) stopped picking on the other kid (Keith). Bullying is totally a buzzword and topic of major media discussion these days. I come from the days of dodgeball and bathroom graffiti - not texting and internet shaming. It’s a whole new world out there.
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