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Chihuly at the De Young

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I went to the De Young in San Francisco a couple of days ago to see the amazing Chihuly exhibit.  If you're not familiar with Chihuly, he is probably best known for his glass work.  He makes beautifully detailed glass sculptures from the size of an average vase to ginormous towers. 

Here's some pictures from the exhibit.  Sorry that I wasn't able to get a lot of perspective, but the galleries were pretty crowded.  But, it's safe to assume that most of the pieces are huge, except for the Southwestern basket inspired pieces.  For more pix, please visit my Flickr.

Happy 4th of July!

Have a wonderful 4th of July weekend!

New supplies on Etsy

I haven't been too excited about Etsy lately, but I found some nice vintage items at an estate sale recently that I decided to list some lots.

Up for sale are two vintage seam binding/bias tape lots in greens and pinks and a vintage button lot in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.



Please visit my shop here for all these goodies and more!

MissMalaprop.com

I am very excited today - Mallory of MissMalaprop.com has reviewed lil' old me on her wonderful indie shopping blog!  I've been a fan of MissMalaprop for some time for the great eco-friendly products she reviews, plus her support of her town, New Orleans. 

Check out the review here. 

Thanks MissMalaprop!!

What have I gotten myself into?

On Saturday afternoon, my poor computer crashed after trying to open the Renegade Fair vendor packet, so I spent most of Sunday transferring my files and updating an old computer of my dad's since he bought his fancy new Mac.  Luckily, everything seems to be working okay now and is even faster than my old computer, which was a couple of years old anyway.  So, I guess everything worked out in the end. 

After I got the computer taken care of, I decided it was time to rearrange my office/work room because I had been unhappy with the set up for a long time.  Not such a smart idea to attempt on my own.  I have those little slider things that you put under furniture to make it easier to move heavy things so I thought it wouldn't be a problem.  Um, no.  I managed to move my desk partway and then everything else got stuck where it was and I couldn't get the sliders in or out from under the furniture! 

So, now my office looks like this:

It's driving me crazy!  My arms are too sore from moving yesterday, so it will have to stay like this for another day or so, but it's killing me.  I spent a good part of today looking up new desks (mine is way too big!) and a new cd storage system - something vertical.  I'm still looking, but hopefully by Friday I'll have something picked out to assemble over the weekend and get everything straightened out again.  Don't get me wrong - I always have some clutter, but this is bad even for me!   At least my computer area is set up so I can use it, but I can't find anything else in all of this!  I guess this is a lesson to actually think things through beyond just measuring before moving furniture on my own!

A beautiful day...minus Lucky magazine

I decided to skip yoga yet again today because it was just too hot out, so I'll probably go take a walk on the beach a little later on today.   So far today, I've been taking care of some much needed to do items on my list, while enjoying the slightly cooler weather.  Peaches, strawberry lemonade, BBC comedies.... my day was great til about 20 minutes ago when I got the mail and found a "collection notice" from Lucky Magazine.  I was a subscriber for several years but let it lapse after my credit card was stolen in December.  Right after that fiasco, my subscription expired and I never renewed it online.  And then the letters came.  Many, many letters that all claimed to be the final notice and my last chance to resubscribe for excellent savings.  Now, wouldn't you think that if someone doesn't resubscribe after maybe 9 or 10 notices that they're not interested?  Not Lucky!   The notice today told me that unless I pay by July 7th, "your account will be scheduled for referral for a nationwide licensed collection agency"!  Excuse me?  Since when is not renewing a magazine subscription license to turn that person over to a collection agency?  1 minute after I opened this notice, I was online sending them a scathing email telling that them I didn't believe them and it was poor business practice and to consider me unsubscribed from any Conde Nast publication forever.  The lesson is beware of Conde Nast because they'll stoop to any level to trick you into renewing your subscriptions. 

Oh well, it's still early and I have the rest of a beautiful day to look forward to. In a couple of hours when it's a little cooler out, I'll probably head out to the beach or something.  Or read some other non-Conde Nast magazines! 

Oh my goodness gracious

It is hawt out today!  Not just hot, but HAWT!  The kind of day where you feel too hot to do anything at all but lie around and eat popsicles, which I kind of did. 

Actually, I went to go see Indiana Jones this morning to take advantage of the air conditioning. 

I liked it, but my favorite is still Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  After, I went over to the Goodwill and got some jars for some bath salts I am making for Renegade, then I went out shopping for some more displays for the show.  After, I decided to pop in to an estate sale that was near my house and found some pretty old vintage buttons, ribbon and seam binding.  Apparently the woman who had owned the house was a clothing designer and had a huge stash of notions.  I would have bought more, but the estate sale company employee wanted a ridiculous amount of money for each bag of buttons, so I just bought one.  I really would love to see into the mind of some of these estate sale people because it seems like they always want a ton of money for practically nothing (like the one who tried to charge me $1 each page of sheet music).  But, I still got some cute things, so it worked out. Then I headed home and ate some popsicles and read magazines because it was just too hot to do much else.

Tomorrow I'm hoping it cools down enough to go to yoga because I haven't gone in about 2 months and there's no a/c in the yoga studio and I don't want to faint.  Then lunch with a friend and we'll see what after that.  It all depends on the weather! 

Blackberry apple tart

All new soap in my Patisserie Jolie Etsy shop!  Just added is a blackberry apple soap, which smells fresh and crisp. 

Please check it out here. 

"Glow wine" soap

Gluhwein, or glow wine, is a mulled wine from Germany, traditionally served around Christmas and New Year's.  I have just added a gluhwein soap to my Patisserie Jolie Etsy shop.  The soap smells warm and spicy, with notes of cloves, cinnamon and oranges.

Please visit the shop and check it out! 

I made 3 more batches of soap today before I got all tuckered out.  I feel pretty drained.  I went to go see Drew Piston play last night at a hole in the wall cafe in Pacifica, just down the road from San Francisco.  I haven't been to Pacifica in ages, so it was fun to go down there.  I ended up not staying for his whole set because it was getting really loud in the cafe, with the coffee maker and people talking, but it was still worth the trip.  And I rarely leave the city, so it was a good excuse to get out for a bit.  It really does feel like a whole other world down there, even though it's only about 5 miles out of San Francisco.   But, I forgot to bring my camera, so sorry, no pictures. I've always thought that if I had to choose one other place in the Bay Area to live, it would be Pacifica.  And oh yeah, Drew has some pretty funny songs about robots and whiskey.  You should check out his site for downloads. 

Taking care of business

I had a bit of a panic attack earlier this week when I realized that Renegade is only about 4 weekends away. I started to get stressed out thinking of all the things I had to get done for the show, in addition to just every day life.  So, in my panic, I made 5 batches of soap a day for the last few days.  Now I am drowning in soap!  Last night I spent a couple of hours packaging things up and running errands. 

What I am most happy about is I finally bought a much needed supportive office chair.  My current one is awful and just isn't cushy enough for my hip, so I headed to Office Depot to find a new one.   What I found instead was a creepy guy sitting in one of the chairs who kept asking me out to a movie or dinner every time I tried out a chair.  And he kept asking me if I wanted to try the chair he was sitting in.  I was trying to be polite, but he was really creepy.  In the end, I just bought the first chair that seemed padded and got the hell out of there.  Later on, I'll try to assemble it and hope that it's good. 

Anyway, so far today I've just been cleaning up my poor cluttered house and then I am off to volunteer for the day.  I'm thinking I might also go check out my friend play down at a cafe in nearby Pacifica, but I am not sure how much I'll feel up to it after I'm done volunteering.  But, I think I need some socializing time so I am trying to convince myself to go. 

Allright, back to taking soap pictures....