For years now, my youngest daughter has been going to see the yearly production of “The Velveteen Rabbit” put on by ODC in San Francisco. This year, inspired by the performance and instructions provided in the production’s program, she decided to make her very own velveteen rabbit. She’s 8 and made the whole thing without […]
Our Family Gratitude Tree Is Full
Every Thanksgiving we do some kind of gratitude activity. This year we made a gratitude tree. It wasn’t fancy or anything. I used empty toilet paper rolls to make the trunk and branches of the tree. Then we made leaves out of construction paper and each member of our family wrote things we are grateful […]
Junk Art in Sebastopol
A few weeks ago, my husband drove our whole crew to Sebastapol, California. From our home base in San Francisco it’s about an hour and a half treck. He took us there because he wanted to introduce us to the junk art of Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent. They aren’t just partners in art, they […]
42 Great Things About My Husband
My husband turned 42 years old this week. In honor of this momentous occasion please allow me to share a few great things about my husband. 42 Great Things About My Husband: His dimples – they’re adorable The sound of his laughter as it travels through the house when he’s watching something on TV that […]
Remembering Sudan the Rhino
A couple of weeks ago, I shared that we went to my youngest daughter’s school to make a plaster gauze mask for her that would be used for the yearly Spanish immersion third-grade Day of the Dead performance. This week we got to see the finished masks. If you look closely you can see that […]