hello my name is bloody mary....

flowers mark brought home for me, they look like a sunny breezy day i want to live in this photo, especially right now

headache with a pop o matic bubble circa 1982 was the friday night game this week!!

"remember that time i only ate boxes of tangerines" that happens here! we are on our 3rd box of cuties in a month, "so sweet and juicy"

 So the reason i have neglected my new blogging endeavor is that 5 of my family members were just here for a week, it was their first Seattle experience(except for you Mikey) we had a lovely time, I was so sad to see them go! Here are a few highlights of our time together, mostly @ the ocean house....

westport was rockin, believe it or not

 

a nod to my little sister michelle, who was busy with her clinicals so she could not join us, we did miss her!!

my brother and fine husband caught 30 razor clams on the beach...im not sure caught is the appropriate terminology, the clam chowder they made was pretty amazing!!  here they are with gramps cleaning the beasts

drift wood fort complete with fire spit roasting a variety of drift wood meat, it was a tiny gem

taking a break from a hard day on the beach

 

mike meets the dungeness

and this...celery and cuke flavored vodka i made with pickles and pickled cocktail onions...this is how i will spend my sunday 

easy like sunday morning...

a little Alfred Hitchcock found to be extremely inspiring, I would have kissed him for a dollar!

spring blooms inside the house too. I recently ordered my grandmother, whom got me interested in cultivating African violets, 3 violet starters from The Violet Barn http://www.violetbarn.com/ I can't wait to see what the flowers look like. they have an amazing selection, it was hard not to order any for my self.

moss terrarium...still not sure if its growing, the other experiment molded, lucky we have no moss shortage here in the PNW

the husbands latest project, he's amazing...got a forge for this one!

 regal beagle

dinner...Stromboli...with an homage  Bilbo's, yummy dill dip

goodnight y'all off to do some homework

a pretty regular friday...

 My view from behind the feather duster(spring cleaning isn't as fun when it doesn't feel like spring)/////contents: mademoiselle doll salvaged from the garbage @ grandma's last summer, porcelain suitcase donning a doll arm, birds nest(currently GJ's resting place, or part of her, still getting use to that!!) a dozen+ slightly stained white gloves, tea-woozle, water logged state of Washington license plate, tablet and doily's for all

 Game night with B&B
                                                  

The bible game...wow this was actually pretty amusing and luckily we needed to know absolutely no triva!! All those years of CCD, got this cathloic girl no where!!

 

the sentence game probably more effective if we had directions but entertaining never the less.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bingo!!!!

what is domestic art? ...to me

my day to day relics and life seen through rose colored glasses.

Today has been a good day, it seems almost everything feels inspirational!

moss + yogurt + concrete budda=this is the second time i have tried this, i think the rain is the uncontrolled factor that stops me from having a mossy budda belly. I hear that you can use buttermilk or beer as well...blend and cover, ill document the results

dinner

why did the third orange dry so much quicker in the exact same environment hmmmm.....