we are seeing a lot of france and we are tired

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pastries are heaven in France

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Mistle toe and other shots of france

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more doors of france and other pics

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guess what france

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there is more to come of france

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more of france

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France

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France

I am sorry for the long absence from my blog I have been very busy. So I finally got around to selecting my favorite photos of my trip to France, Enjoy....

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Fun with Fiji water

sillies

I don't know if everyone knows this about me but I love to peel labels off things, my two most favorite things to peel are costco price tags off there books and the labels on my art journals. But now I have a new 3rd favorite label to peel, the fiji water label which leaves a excellent sticky area on the bottle!!!!! This can create a lot of fun...

Our t-shirt project

We decided to start a line of t-shirts that show case Fijian tradition tattoo designs. This is our first shirt...

tattoo shirt

Volunteer at the library

I love shelving books and putting them back where they belong!

library clean up

Stan the softy

stans babies

He does not like to see the dogs uncomfortable and Bowser hates getting wet where Cathlene does not care in the least!

Introducing Like a Lady

I meet a wonderful man while I lived in Tonga (check the beginning of the blog and you will see the adventures of Jay and Brian) Brian and he helped me so much. I don't know if I would have survived Tonga without him! He was there as a peace corp volunteer but his background is in film. He became very interested in the Fakaleiti's of Tonga and wanted to create a documentary about them. So one thing lead to another and the beginnings of a documentary was born! Brian is heading back to Tonga this summer to finish his film!!!

Fakaleiti Like a Lady




congratulations Brian!

The kids school concert!

The kids had their school concert yesterday, here are some photos of the event...

school concert

sweating

Ok its not just sweat. I have been sweating so much because it has been so bloody hot this last week that the sweat stains are embarrassing and there is not enough gold bond to help; but during our run we were bucketed on till the last 10 minutes of the run.

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gardens everywhere

Our Tomatoes are just starting to turn color, the beans are flowering, and the bank across the park is being cultivate for cassava.

tomatoes

Finally!!!!

I am unblocked!!!!!!!! Josie causally mentioned that she would like to do art tonight and that she specifically felt like doing some prints. I think she had a master plan to help get me unstuck!!!! and it did!!!! I am now totally stoked on my new series!!!! drum roll please.....


SEED PODS:

monoprints seed pods

I love printing, I love monoprints! I started my evening trying to be more painterly but that did not really work out. So I went back to the scratching (which I love and do a lot with my pottery!) and nudes but that was uninspiring so I decided to try my other love; seed pods! It totally worked and now I am in a seed pod groove!
Thank God and Thank Josie from bring me back from my dry barren oasis of non-creativity.

tomatoes and basil

now if we could only get some really good mozzarella!!! we could make a perfect bruschetta!

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where's Cathlene?

The adventures of Bowser and Cathlene!

doggy adventures