we all met in the green tea room after our massages....everyone had a great massage, maggie, ashley, carrie....all had their own stressful world that they got a little relief from... carrie, had just flown in from london, leading the life of a chef, ashley teaching little preschoolers, and felting up storms, and maggie teaching learning disabled children....our necks were in a twist
we all loved this treatment, the warm paintbrush with this cozy green smear, was divine....
upon entering the grotto and getting showered down, and sugar scrubbed up, we had our favorite treatment....a warm paintbrush loaded with warm lotion to moisturize skid....then off to the sauna to let it soak in....these are my favorite pictures of the martians landed....
my son connor's dear friend from kindergarten has grown up and is a musican. this was his dubue at our local cafe house the blue butterfly. family and friends came to support him. 
izzy makes appearance to her uncles first cafe appearance at blue butterfly in el segundo....her and kegan won our hearts away
after 15 or 20 years our bedroom is finally getting makeover....the color we choose is the darker one....below will be a series of pictures as we remove our belongings, tear out rugs, and the general state of an ugly bedroom.... p.s. i can't believe i am showing the state of how things were.
everything is going, including that nude i did 30 years ago... the desk was on the sidewalk, and was gone within 15 minutes
this what started it all....my husband got a new computer from santa. we tried to find where to put this wonderful computer, but the room was so ugly, we made the large leap....we decide to redo the bedroom. ashley offered her help for the next 5 days.....we slept on the idea, and i thought for sure no one would really want to undertake this project....but next after christmas we started to unload the entire bedroom on to our backyard deck. we did not throw things away, as we decided that would slow us up, but will throw away things before they go back into the house. and so it happened we took the first step.
these candykane folks provide real snow for our neighborhood. wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, i am impressed
this was a special christmas, because my mom recovered with a serious heart problem from last year.....she walked in her new tennies all the way around the block to the north pole...last year this same photo she was sitting in a wheel chair...i am so thankful she changed her thinking pattern and stopped focusing on sickness.....it worked and she is 100 percent improved.....she looks good for 77 years living.....
we are very lucky to live next to the famous candykane lane....every christmas this street is visited by santa, and every house is cover with lights, running trains...this year one house had real snow on their front lawn. we all take our christmas stroll and feast on the lights....my brother on left, his son and wife maggie, ashley my daughter, my mom, and my brothers kids, steve and krissy. 
my sister-in-law, maggie needle felted her bell.....she had on the best sweater dress that we all wanted to needle felt on.....in the background is my hubby relaxing after our large christmas eve gathering. 
this is one of my favorite pictures of my dad and ashley 20 years ago. they were walking down the road from opa's house....goldie his dog tagging along (wanting to walk too). i did photo transfer on collage, done on canvas.....i love you dad...
this was my special gift to my sister.....we had photos of each of us taken at about 3 years old...she gave them to me for my 50th birthday, and i was suppose to copy them and return them, they are about 9 by 16", i did photo transfer on canvas with collage background.....on christmas day my sister said she cried when she opened her package...in person they are very cute.....hee hee
brought a special photo, and we collaged the canvas, then added a transferred photo with gel medium, and heat.....the paper was removed, and magically the photo appears. our party was early this year, but will give us all time to do family photos for gifts....thanks for coming girls, vonnie,irene,diane,donna 
this is izzy, vonnie's first grandbaby...
vonnie, made the best collage of izzy, her first granddaugther. fitting izzy had a special crown...she is the princess of grand babys...she made this for her christmas gift...what a treasure.
irene did her photo transfer on canvas of her mom's wedding day..., she has special plans for all her family's wedding photos...
