Generational friends

Ken's grandma and my grandma were friends, our parents are friends and now I can say Ken and I are friends. Around 1965, our parents put Ken and I on a plane from Dulles to LAX to visit our grandmas in CA. Ken's grandma was the best, she put a piece of chocolate on your pillow before bed. Ken and I live different lives, Ken is a scientist and lives in Alaska and I'm a designer in California. Enjoy talking with you Ken, friends forever.

Historic certificate

My sister Margaret wrote of her marriage-- "Four years ago when Carol and I got married in San Francisco the campus news did a story that we were mentioned in. Well four years later with the changes in marriage laws they did a follow up on some of the couples. We did not have a back yard ceremony though....Oh well it is a good photo. Read the article at this link-- http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/23_wed.shtml"

Yikes, I think I am the Christian Fundamentalist mentioned in the article, I may lose my church membership. :)

Joyous announcement

I would like to share this joyous announcement with you-Melinda graduated from high school (VACE) on Friday, June 13. So many of you have prayed, cried, laughed with us as we have lived through the last 5 years. Our family and friends have inspired and sustained us and are an important part of her success. A special thank you to Rachael, her sister that put aside her career to live with us for a season. May you be blessed for your selflessness. Thanks to each and every one of you.

In the fall Melinda will be attending the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. She will pursue a career in fashion design.

Inventive fresh florals

My daughter wrote this to me and I agree; "I found this store in LA when I was shopping for work. They have the coolest floral arrangements I had ever seen. Check it out! It might inspire you to collect drift wood from the beach." I'm heading for the beach. See for yourself at -- http://www.krislyndesign.com/index.html

Trend setter

Designing accessories is a very competitive profession and for one of your designs to be photographed as an example of a trend by WGSN is a compliment. My daughter found one of her hat designs on their website that was taken at the Coachella Music Festival. To see more of her work visit this url http://www.billabong.com/us/

Dressing up

My daughter always loved to dress up. She had a large white suit case with big girl dresses, shoes, jewelry that she played with for countless hours. When she went to the Billabong Design for Humanity party this is the dress she wore. Nice. Here is Billabong's url for the event http://www.billabong.com/designforhumanity/es/index.html.

Preach it

In my notebook I had one quote written down, it was "What we keep spoils, what we sow bears fruit." Steve Edwards always an inspiration at his last visit to CLC March, 2008 (one of my favorite people, especially his wife)

Send modern art e-cards!

If you want to send a really unique e-card try this url: http://moma.org/ecards/

These cards inspired me to send my daughter an e-card for no special reason except that I love her.

Chip's girlfriend

I got this image in my email from someone, can't remember who, but she is the dog I'd pick to be my daughter's dog girlfriend. She is so adorable in pink.

Dwell here

When I was looking through a Dwell magazine for inspiration for a photo shoot I saw this photo of a prefab home. This house stood out to me, I just fell in love with it. It was open and airy, small and minimal with glass and windows open to the sea.

This Sunday my family and I attended the Dwell on Design Exhibition at the LA Convention Center to see if we could find it. We found the booth and a cardboard model display along with larger home models. We met one of the designers who told us they had built this model in Redando Beach. We must see it in person.

The url for LogicalHomes is http://logicalhomes.com/prelaunch.htm.

Purpose of the blog

This blog will be an expression of what inspires me. It will be about the things that are interesting to me in my creative career, about being a mother and a single Christian woman. Writing is not my specialty but finding interesting notes, artists, quotes, photos and other things come easily. This blog will be a history of things that I'll want to remember. Maybe even share something that will inspire another person.