Mr. Cat and I have been having the nicest Stay-Cation together, puttering about the house all week, and making it more homey. We've had a lot of tea, finished 2 books, and have listened to the constant rain for 4 days now.
Monday I did venture out into the downpour and was rewarded with this charming find at the Council of Jewish Women Thrift in Santa Monica. I love it - it's my very own arm chair for quiet reading and tea sipping. Elwood tried to take over it, but David chases him out of it on a daily basis.
I painted our dining room this "Bonzai Tree" green, which was a big pain in my back, legs, neck and arms, but deeply rewarding once finished. It's so satisfying to finally get some color on my walls. I did one wall in our bedroom too, a nice light blue, and I'm all painted out.
I spent my birthday yesterday driving around with Tiny hitting tons of thrift stores on her side. We went to St. Vincent de Paul, and we felt like crazy ladies trying on all the thrifty fashions. These two are my favorites, the pants-sweater and the pony jacket.
We ended our day with tea and cheesecake at Aroma Cafe, steamy trying to get warm from all the rain we'd soaked up in our travels, and realized we were the only people in the room NOT on a first-date, making first-date faces and first-date conversation. We got out of there when we couldn't take it any more and trolled on home.
Today, I joined Agata and her niece Amber in a trek to LACMA, for free fruit trees. There is an on-going art project by a group called Fallen Fruit, who map public fruit trees and fruit overhang so you can eat through the city for free, and they kicked off 9 months of upcoming EATLACMA events with this weekend, 2 days of handing out free fruit trees. (EATLACMA, Fallen Fruit's nine-month series of events with tree adoptions, followed by lectures, tours, artist-curated gardens and food-themed art installations) Read more about them "here!" So Agata and I each got a California Cutie orange baby tree. Mine is already planted in the backyard, cozy and ready to grow!
After checking out the BCAM with some random free tickets from a nice lady outside, we headed over to Manni's Bakery for lunch. Amber got a chocolate raspberry cupcake with a heart on it, and it looked delicious!
A lovely unexpected day of friends and trees! The next Fallen Fruit event at LACMA I really want to go to: bring tomatoes from your garden to the museum and make salsa, accompanied with Latin Salsa dancing lessons! Spicy!
and this peacock sculpture all made out of rolled & folded & burnt paper. I wanted to buy it, rather than actual merchandise.
Mr. Cat and I have been having the nicest Stay-Cation together, puttering about the house all week, and making it more homey. We've had a lot of tea, finished 2 books, and have listened to the constant rain for 4 days now.
Monday I did venture out into the downpour and was rewarded with this charming find at the Council of Jewish Women Thrift in Santa Monica. I love it - it's my very own arm chair for quiet reading and tea sipping. Elwood tried to take over it, but David chases him out of it on a daily basis.
I painted our dining room this "Bonzai Tree" green, which was a big pain in my back, legs, neck and arms, but deeply rewarding once finished. It's so satisfying to finally get some color on my walls. I did one wall in our bedroom too, a nice light blue, and I'm all painted out.
We ended our day with tea and cheesecake at Aroma Cafe, steamy trying to get warm from all the rain we'd soaked up in our travels, and realized we were the only people in the room NOT on a first-date, making first-date faces and first-date conversation. We got out of there when we couldn't take it any more and trolled on home.
