Housewarming!

Wonderful housewarming/birthday party!
House full of family and friends and 1 sexy chef.
Thank you everyone for coming and bringing nice food and drinks and friendship!

Staycation Adventures!

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.

Went to the Rose Bowl Flea Market on Sunday with Christine & Tiny, and I got these lovely old books! I have not decided if I want to convert them into journals right away, or maybe read them first, the native trees book seems especially nice to read through.

Trees Please!

After Christmas, my parents stayed a couple nights, and gave me a most generous and wonderful early birthday present, 2 glorious fruit trees for the back yard. They helped us select, transport and plant them, and I was a Tiny Shoveler. I dug the whole whole for the Avacado on my own, and a good part of the lemon tree hole too. David extracted one of our pesky palms, to his great excitement, no easy feat.

After some days, you just need to drink a whole bottle of wine, calm down, and say to yourself, "Tomorrow, I will do better."

Oh Christmas. The delight you bring.

Ari really liked her new leg warms and matching mittens, stuffed inside her new purse, along with cupcake & donut earrings. Kids are so fun to shop for!
I finally got to see and hold tiny darling McKenna, and was very amazed at how teeny and quiet and relaxed she was. And her feet are so soft you can barely feel them. Amazing.
Here's hoping the US postal service did it's job and got Warren his Xmas surprise on time.
He was supposed to receive this handmade stocking, stuffed with tiny presents to warm him with holiday cheer on the other side of the country, deep in Brooklyn snow. If it didn't come, Warren, don't look :) I want to thank all who contributed, it was wonderful of you to be tiny Santa's.


I'm wiped out right now. Just dug a hole in the backyard all on my own, to plant a new avacado tree, a very special and generous birthday present from wonderful loving parents. Photos to come :)

Why does Elwood want to lick the spine of my diary? While I was unaware, he has soaked the lower corner of the binding with his naughty hunger. I told him the book is not for eating, but he just looks mad.