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transformation

turke3 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:04:58 +0000

a current work – very cathartic after an extremely difficult week. my son was in a serious car accident -i very happy to say it looks like he will make a full recovery. each day is a gift and i am reminded that the most precious things in my life are taken for granted far too often.

so many altars-so little time

turke3 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:29:44 +0000

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.

Strange Fruit in downtown Los Angeles

turke3 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:05 +0000

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 well as Friday & Saturday- I highly recommend it! for more information visit

www.7fig.com

friday the 13th is my lucky day

turke3 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:27:06 +0000

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 for more info)

get my workshop materials ready for tomorrow ( ten workshops are starting tomorrow-visit my website for details)

work on a few assemblage pieces-my new favorite thing-i just finished “the swan.”

definately last on the list and maybe a “to do” for another day is to see

what i can do about my messy studio for a possible upcoming photo shoot.

a social concience/doing the right thing

turke3 — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:55:57 +0000

as usual my tuesday morning started out at a fast pace-the usual walk the dogs, feed dogs, cats, bird,chickens, feed men (in that order. do other various chores-out the door by 7:30 to hit the swapmeet and market-planning on being back at 10 to get some work done.

naturally it’s rush hour traffic- we have about 6 schools in our immediate neighborhood-it is a real zoo. i was stopped at a redlight at a major intersection , 2nd in line to make a left hand turn- i was not looking ahead at the intersection-i was getting gum out of my purse - and ka boom-an accident right in front of me. a bad collision- a small suv going straight and a BIG schoolbus making the left-no contest. i did call 911 to request an ambulance-but i have to have to be honest- since i didn’t actually witness the crash-i was not going to stop. there always seem to be people who are calm and competant and step right up in an emergency-they know exactly what to do, i am not one of those people. sadly out of 50 plus cars around ( i do not exaggerate) NO ONE-NOT ONE PERSON got out to help. so- i pulled over, stepped up to the plate and pretended to be one of those calm competent people. i got to the drivers side i could see that the driver was ok-the air bags naturally went off -but she was conscious if somewhat hysterical. her main concern was her 2 year old in the backseat- who was thankfully safely strapped in her carseat and fine.

to sum up- the ambulance, firetruck, police, chp eventually all came and took charge. the kids on the bus were all ok-the bus driver is ok-the 2 year old is ok- and i think the driver of the suv is lucky to have escaped with seemingly minimal injuries.

i can only speculate that all those other drivers around were in a hurry-not wanting get”involved”-but reguardless-it doesn’t really have any bearing on my actions. as i said-i did not want to stop- but thankfully i did. i learned a lesson today- i won’t wait to see if the other person is going to do the right thing-i’ll just do it myself.