Maigirlz Madness

When In Wine Country.......

Become a wino!!!!!

Thursday's red wine flight with food pairing...

 

Friday nights white wine flight with food pairing:

 

On Saturday, we ventured out to wine country and stopped in at St Francis Winery:

This statue of St Francis Assisi greeted us:

 

We had a little table on the patio that overlooked the garden and vineyard:

 

Here is the 50 year old birthday girl enjoying the day with hubby:

 

My yummy white wine and food pairing:

 

Al enjoying the cab...

 

And the real reason for this trip to Sonoma....

 

Nick played in a high school lacrosse tournament held at Sonoma State!  Three days of lacrosse games, and Nick was also selected to play as an all-star!!  Yippee!!!

All photos taken from my iPhone...not too bad!

Next week my darling friend Martha arrives from Canada and we will be attending

Art Unraveled!!

 

  

 

Lovely Gifts......

From Sweet Sandy, for my Birthday:

 

A mini fan, Lemonade bubble gum, and a specially wrapped gift to be saved for a time closer to the big day. 

From my Girlfriend Earleen:

 

This very cool stone stamp that she had personalized in China for me!!

 

California Gurls......

Know how to throw a party!!!  Kim Caldwell's Artistic Affaire Les Sirenes was a BLAST!!

We started the event off on Thirsday night with a Mermaid Cocktail Party in our hotel, The Belamar.  Lucky for Danielle and I, we were right next door:

Our fabulous hosts, Terry and Joy:

 

There was a ton of wonderful food like this:

 

Some of Cupcake DD Julie Weller's amazing cupcakes:

    

 

Our lovely hosts sent us all off with a wonderful gift bag:

 

A Few of The Mermaids:

 

My besties, Colleen and Sherry 

 

Karla Nathan and Beth Leintz

 

Cheryl Stoneham and Colleen Jew

 

Me and my roomie Danielle

From there we went to the Desert Reception and Vendor Night!!!!!

 

Kim and Val had made up these personalized buckets full of goodies for each mermaid!!!!

 

Julie Haymaker Thompson; vendor, teacher and friend!

 

My friend Charlene, who is head to toe in Deb Hodge's amazing clothing line, Breathing Beside Us.

 

And here I am with fabulous Deb 

 

A sampling of the desert....

 

Me and my peeps, Jessi and Jenn Hayslip 

That's it for now!!  I have to get ready to takem y son to a lacrosse tourney in Sonoma!  Al and I are going to find a few hours to early celebrate my 50th birthday (August) with a little tour of some wineries and vineyards!!   

oxox

 

   

 

Summer Treats......

My BEST summer find:  

GOVINO plastic wine glasses,

 filled with my homemade Sangria!!!!!  To be enjoyed poolside or anywhere you might stumble.....

You are going to love me for this:

 

I purchased mine at the local Bevmo store!

These little charmers to wear on a sweater made by my local gal pal Laura from Decor to Adore

  

Drinks by the pool with a girlfriend at a local resort rocks.....

 

 

My 784 page mine blowing, can't put it down, summer read about a post apocalyptic United States......

The Passage

On my Kindle, of course......

 

 

 That was after I devoured the Steig Larsson trilogy that began with The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo.

This morning I'm off to LA for this fabulous event:

 

I have something else in the works for next week.  Since my 50th Birthday is approaching, I think I'll do a little celebrating!!!

More Tin Girls in the House!

I finally listed these girls in my etsy...a few sold before I even got them in there- thank you!

Miss Gardenia Bouquet

 

For Sale, $28.00 HERE

Miss April Showers...

 

For SAle, $28.00 HERE

Miss Prince Albert

 

For Sale $16.00 HERE 

And I am busy working on some more Remains of the Day Journals.

 

 

Pages are done, I need to finish up the covers and bind them.....

 

 

And more pages from my Nostalgic Journaling classes I'm taking online from Hope...

 

 

 

 

 

     

  

Poetry.....

 

 haiku my heart

friday

poignant simplicity

one photograph

three lines

5,7,5

simply 

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