Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our home to yours.
Mortgage Master Service Corporation will be closing at 3:00 pm today for the holidays and will reopen for business on Tuesday, December 27, 2011.
Santas Occupy Seattle
December 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Not really! Yesterday we started our Christmas shopping in Seattle and were delighted to bump into hundreds of Santas for Santacon 2011. Aparently all over the world, there were thousands of Santas coming out to be jolly before the big day.
More photos of Seattle Santacon 2011
By the way, Christmas shopping in Seattle is one of my favorite things to do in the holidays. I highly recommend getting out to Pikes Place Market – especially on a sunny day.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Sunday Drive to San Juan Islands
August 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
We recently took a family vacation and celebrated my husband’s birthday with our teens in the San Juan Islands. San Juan Island is beautiful and really not that far away from Seattle if you catch the non-stop ferry out of Anacortes.
Gardens at Roche Harbor. [Read more…]
To All the Rock Stars at The Talon Group
August 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
It was announced a few days ago that First American is pulling in The Talon Group and Pacific NW Title. I've been thinking about all the fun and informative videos the group at Talon have created and thought I'd share "Rock Star" with you.
We get to enjoy these brands for a few more weeks until they're official absorbed by First American on October 1, 2011, when they all "combine forces".
For the record, I have enjoyed working with my escrow and title teams at The Talon Group for these past seven (?) years. I think you are all rock stars!
Voodoo Lilies from my Garden
July 6, 2011 by 2 Comments
Be thankful the photos in this post are not "scratch 'n sniff", voodoo lilies emit a very foul odor after blooming.
According to Paghat's Garden:
Northwest gardeners have reported them spreading quite wildly, & requiring no special attention of any kind. They spread by self-seeding & by bulb offsets. If the seedheads are not collected, they will eventually fall over in the garden, where beetles or ants cart them away, spreading the voodoo lily more distantly. The penultimate photo below shows one of the green seed cobs in August. The final photo shows the ripened cob in October, when the stalk has softened has toppled to the ground so insects will clean & disperse the seeds.
We've had these amazing plants slowly spread through our garden.
This Q&A from the Seattle Times recommends not planting these too close to your home, especially near dining areas or your doors or windows because of the smell and the insects that are attracted to the aroma (which only lasts a few days).
This isn't something you'll find in vase in my home! But I will tolerate the smell to adore their beauty. I was just out in my garden and had to share this with you!
Car Art Show in West Seattle
June 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
An Art Car Party is going on behind the Feedback Lounge (and Zeeks Pizza) until around 8:30 tonight and is worth the visit in you’re in the in West Seattle neighborohood. NOTE: I’ll post more pictures as soon as I can (I’m in the process of making a Father’s Day dinner for my hubby). Link posted below to more pictures.
Hat tip to Marlow Harris, her Elvis Traveling Museum is pictured below.
This is the “Yarn Car”.
UPDATE: Check out all of my photos of the amazing art cars by clicking here.
Happy Mothers Day
May 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I love this photo of Mom keeping us girls together on a visit to Disneyland many years ago.
Happy Mother's Day!
Pottery Sale Today at Moshier Art Center in Burien
May 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Many delightful and crafty creations of pottery are on sale today at Moshier Art Center in Burien.
I believe the sale ends at 3:00 and I'm sorry to say the photos I took inside the center came out blurry!
I'm hoping that my Mom (one of the artist aka "potters") has some photos that I can update this post with.
Here's more info on the B-Town Blog. Moshier Art Center is located on the east side of 1st Avenue at 430 South 156th, Burien (right by Moshier Field).
Their next sale is scheduled for December 3, 2011… just in time for the holidays!
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