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Dishes

By lee | November 29, 2009

This year I used some new dishes on Thanksgiving. They are just charming and were given to me by my good friend Vivienne and her husband Del. The dishes belonged to Del’s mom who had a thing for dishes. They are from Germany and are made by Rosenthale. They were designed by Raymond Loewy and [...]

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Will she ever stay home?

By lee | November 16, 2009

It’s true, I’ve been away more than I’ve been home during the last 5 – 6 weeks, but I am now home to stay. Last Thursday I decided to fly down to Walnut Creek to spend sometime with my best friend Kristy and her family. We had a great time, eating wonderful meals, sitting around [...]

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Seattle Weekend

By lee | November 9, 2009

Rick and I decided we needed a romantic getaway and took off for Seattle on Friday morning. We stayed at the wonderful Vintage Park hotel on 5th Street right across from the cool new library. We’ve stayed there before and it’s really nice. After checking into the hotel, we walked up to the Frye Museum. [...]

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Drawing

By lee | September 29, 2009

I’ve always said that I can’t draw. I can use tracing paper and photos and come up with images that I need but I’m terrified of just putting pencil to paper and drawing. I’ve often heard that a great way to open yourself up artistically is to take classes that are outside of your normal [...]

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Hike to ZigZag Mountain

By lee | August 31, 2009

Vivienne and I went on a hike yesterday and it was a killer. We are both certain the mileage from the book we had must have been off by a few miles. I mean we are pretty good hikers and go every weekend but this hike was a tough one. We left from the Burnt [...]

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