yesterday was a long, wonderful day-”weather” and all! for us spoiled southern californians, any kind of moisture constitutes rain. after one of the warmest october’s for us on record-novemeber 1st, dia de los muertos, came in with a vengeance-sporadic thunderstorm’s throughout the day. this made for an interesting and challenging event at hollywood forever cemetery’s annual dia de los muertos [...]

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small works-some of my favorites! i’ll be having a “make & take” mini altar workshop next sunday, sept 28th which will coincide with the abbot kinney street festival. if you are in the neighborhood come by-details can be found on my website www.turkeyred.com or www.tenwomen.org

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my newest altar creation.
Yo me moriré un día, pero soy a causa de usted que mi amor vivirá para siempre.
I will die one day,
but it’s because of you that my love will live forever.

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actaully-summer in southern ca is not quite over. we’re in somewhat of a heat wave. betty is the only one of the three girls who really enjoys the water. angie will sedately lay down on the middle step of the pool, zoey will have nothing to do with water at all (except her bath, of which she [...]

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august has flown by-this was the month i was going to take off -oh well-didn’t happen!
with september 1st being tomorrow, the general consensus is that summer is over.
i am in agreement-for the few weeks i’ve been consumed with thoughts of dia de los muertos-my favorite holiday.  here is airesella- to welcome things to come.

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The talented Patricia Anders, one of my favorite artist’s at the Ten Women Gallery, is curating the show ”Raining Art dolls”.  More than 29 artists are participating-it’s a must see! La Sirene is one of my contributions.  Please join us on September 5th from 6-9pm  for the artist reception at the Ten Women Gallery in Venice. http://www.tenwomen.org/venicegallery.html

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 This morning i read in the LA Time’s that an Australian preforming art’s troupe  “Strange Fruit” would be in downtown Los Angeles this evening. My husband (bless his adventurous spur of the minute soul) a friend and i took the subway downtown to  Bank of America Plaza.  the excursion was well worth it-in a word-MAGICAL. They are preforming tomorrow as [...]

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for those of you who know me-you  are aware of my “collections”.i have tried to be quite stern with myself-i’m at a point in my life i should use what i have-sadly that is not quite working out.  
i was at a flea market (not the best place for one who is trying to resist [...]

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i’ve put a somewhat acceptable dent of the not so fun  “must do’s”-shopping, cleaning, paperwork, ect-i’ve decided to spend the rest of the day having fun. 
not necessarily in this order, but heres my list
give the girls (dogs) a bath. it’s going to be HOT-so they will dry quickly. 
work on my quilt square for the saqa auction  (visit  www.saqa.com  [...]

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today is much better than last tuesday-however my car is ailing.  it sustained ”serious injury” ( it blew a spark plug through the cylinder head) according to my wonderful, honest & talented mechanic.  the good news is that it will be covered under my extended warrenty which ends this august-whew! more good news is that i didn’t get stranded [...]

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