Just getting a little nostalgic remembering some girl parties from long ago!
Archive for January, 2012
My painting partner!
She did good!!!!!
Part of our night’s work. What a wonderful girls’ night!
A Passion for Painting!
I’m so excited! My friend Lani is coming over for supper and a girls’ painting party tonight! I wonder if we will paint up a storm?!
Water Gardens
Looking through my old botanic center photos, I liked this today as we wait for snow to hit Iowa. Doesn’t it feel warm and tropical?! It also reminds me of a warm swim I had last night at Ames Racquet and Fitness.
Taking Time for Kids
I love this photo I took at the graduation potluck my friends had for me. We get so busy and focused on the adult things, but here is Lora making time for the little things and the little people.
MLK Day: A Day ON, Not a Day Off
There is a lot of work that needs to be done in our society, problems that need to be fixed, attitudes that need to be changed, people that need a helping hand. When I was a part of the AmeriCorps program, we celebrated Martin Luther King’s birthday as a day to volunteer, a day on, not a day off. I need to get back in that mindset and perhaps find a small volunteer niche that I can still fit into.
Here is volunteer I snapped in San Francisco back in 2006.
Zen Tangles
Last fall, this was an art project the kids worked on at a school where I subbed. Each child did their name, divided the rest of the white space into sections and filled each section with a pattern or other felt marker design, then colored over it with pencil. I got hooked and did quite a few of my own at home. VERY RELAXING PAST TIME! Art teachers and their ideas rock!
Dare to Ask
This is a poster that I have on the back of a large bookcase that encloses my little sleeping area where I am living for now. Are you a daring person? The first dare on the poster says, “Dare to ask for what you want”. You know what the hard part of this is? Knowing what you want, and perhaps, wanting the same thing, for more than a day or a week or a year!
