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Mark and Andres visiting the memorial site of Mark's mom in the Sequoias 

It's late, late Sunday evening and I'm trying to stretch out my two weeks off as they weren't long enough but I enjoyed the break! I still may take another week or two off next month to 'finish" the rest of my list. Mark and Andres had an excellent time in California visiting Mark's family and camping in the Sequoia National Park. Next year I'll be joining them on whatever vacation we decide to take, most likely to visit family. It would be nice to leave the country though~ I've been playing a lot of Spanish guitar music lately as Mexico and Spain have been on my mind and in my dreams. And I caught up on some Fellini films this week (La Strada and La Dolce Vita) so now you can add Italy to the list as well.. bright colored adobe buildings, tiny narrow streets,street markets,etc. We seriously need to save our pennies and plan a trip.

          

   Mark and I walking through Guanajuato, Mexico a few years back

  

         

Now some catching up to do...

A blogger friend from France tagged me to show the tools that I use to create my art. Well, mine don't look half as nice as hers as I still have clay on mine but I'll show them anyhow ;)

My most useful tool would be this one with a round rubber tip

 

Now it's my turn to tag five others to show us what tools they use to create their wonderful art!

 Marlen,Sarah, Christine, Rachel and Tracy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And here's a get -to-know-you game that Mimi played on her flickr site last month. If you have a flickr account (and some time...) play along:)

     

1. The infamous Christine, 2. Avocado on toast, 3. Pacific Grove, 4. Periwinkle blue, 5. 24 years later and it's still Bono , 6. Sangria , 7. Too many to list but one would be the Cinque Terre, 8. Tiramisu, 9.  Experienced and happy..., 10. Husband and Son, 11.Observant , 12. Du Buh Du Designs 

Created with fd's Flickr Toys. 

The method:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name 

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And a sincere Thanks to Michelle at Third Eye Muse for two blogger awards:) 

                   

Here are the five blogs I'm passing along these awards to, which I think are great for a variety of reasons. You can choose to post it on your site and pass it on or not~I won't take it personally.:)

 

a. For mixing her art with images of her life and family in a wonderful way... Kelly (it's not Prudence!) from Prudence Pouts

b. For creating wonderful art and being so open with her readers..Michelle from the Blackberry Briar

c. For her lively art and sense of humor that makes me laugh out loud..Debra at the Little Yellow House

d. For making such enviable art and for posts that make me just stare in awe at her work...Sammi at Sammisofties

e. For her short but sweet and frequent posts, which usually show a new art or design related find....Briannelee 

If you were selected for the award, please pay it forward by following these steps:

1) Choose 5 blogs that you consider deserving of this award based on creativity, design, interesting material, and overall contribution to the blogger community, regardless of the language.

2) Post the name of the author and a link to his or her blog so everyone can view it.

3) Each award-winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award.

4) The award-winner and the presenter should post the link of the "Arte y pico" blog so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) Please post these rules!

Hope everyone has a great start to their week~I'll be working on some new dolls for the next update!