HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! "Grateful" "Giving Thanks"! A Hugely important thing to me!!! I am hugely grateful for both of my parents. They were both creative people, and I believe I inherited from both. I don't remember my father, because …
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Rising From the Mud and the Ashes – Restoring Montecito
*This post was originally published on The Art Of Outdoor Living by Margie Grace We hear about disasters around the globe on a daily basis, but it’s hard to imagine that such devastation will ever hit so close to home. In early December 2017, the …
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My definition of “luxury”!
luxury My friend who writes the blog "Splenderosa" asked us to write about our "definition of luxury"! Here is …
French Lavender Oil
When we were building our house; we went on several trips to Provence. We stayed on one trip at a wonderful hotel in Aix-en-Provence called La Villa Gallici. http://www.villagallici.com/en/hotel It smelled absolutely divine; so I looked …
My wonderful surprise! A reprise for Mother's Day!!!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!! I ran this last year on Mother's Day, and for anyone who didn't see it, you might enjoy it!! I had a wonderful Mother!! She was the creative behind my own creativity; although my father, (whom I cannot remember) was …
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Story of the Duck House!!!
WHEW!!! You haven't heard from me in a while. We had a duckling disaster!! Six baby ducklings hatched in our duck house. Last Spring we had nine at the end of March, four in July, and nine again in August, all of whom got as big as their …
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
Christmas with grandchildren! Their "presence" was our "present"!!
We are so lucky! Two of our seven grandchildren live less than a mile from our house here in Santa Barbara! Three more lived here for 3 years; but for 8 years they have been living in Switzerland; and are moving back here next summer! For a …
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