New Hair for a New Year

Ruth wanted a new do for the new school year. We talked about donating hair to Locks of Love, but Ruth chickened out, (which is totally understandable when you have such beautiful hair). As I watched her get her cut I thought, I'm going to do it too!!!

So I did it and I love it!!!

This is the anti-wrinkle version. The last time I cut my hair was when Ruth was born. I was intending to send the hair to Locks of love, but was too attached. This time I sent in all 11".

San Francisco has the best food!!!!

A couple of weeks ago I went up north to hang with my family and my mom took Ruth for a day so I could go to San Francisco with my cousin Teresa. Now Tia lives in Santa Barbara, but she used to live in SF when I was a wee teenager. I used to take the ferry from Marin (where I grew up) and walk the streets (window shopping). I loved it. At 16, when I got my license, my parents let me borrow the car and I would go hang out with Teresa, aka Tia. I learned how to drive pretty well on those hills driving a stick!!! Oh, and I know how to parallel park too.
Flash forward to August 2009 and this is the wonderful dessert Tia and I shared at B Star Restaurant on Clement. It is Burmese Fusion and fantastic. Below is a close up of the lotus fries.

Below is the pulled pork sandwich we shared. (Notice Tia's coconut? I had a Thai iced tea.)

Below is the most wonderful salad we shared. It is called Tea Leaf Salad and is beautifully served with dried lentils, dried garlic, jalapenos,tomatoes, sunflower seeds and fermented tea leafs- all on a bed of Romaine Lettuce. The waiter (very cute) brought it to the table, squeezed the lemon and tossed it for us. It was the best!!!! (Tia and I asked the waiter if we could taste the tea leaves before he tossed it-they were fantastic!!!!)

Can you see the City in the background? Before we ate lunch we visited the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum and were given a private tour of the John Baldessari exhibit http://www.baldessari.org/ which, had I not gotten the docent tour, I would not have understood or appreciated. I love art- and even more when I understand where the artist head is at while creating. One of his pieces is a page full of the sentence, "I will not create boring art." And it wasn't!!!!

Arts Outreach and jewelry with things you might otherwise put in the waste can

Here are some photos of some of the jewelry made by a group of girls (9-12) who took my class at Arts Outreach in Los Olivos this past week. We had a rgreat time and these gals were so prolific as you can see by these photos!!!

Notice Mykaela's cool necklace made from soda pop tops. I love this necklace!!!

The bottle tops and large disc with buttons(bottom of a soda can) are filled with resin.

I believe Kaela was the most prolific.

Book Arts or Animals??? Arts Outreach summer program

These are the cover for books the younger group of kids made. Are they not gorgeous?!!

Here we see the inspiration for drawing.

These elephants have the best eyes, but you gotta double click on the photo to really see them.

Below was the work of one young man who was not interested in an elephant nor a horse. He made a dog book which I personally found inspirational.