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Sao Noi
Today I ran across a drawing that I started back in 2016 of an elephant named Sao Noi, and I decided to finish it today. I don’t know what happened, but I am able to draw again, this drawing sat unfinished for 2 years, but now it’s done. Sao Noi was an older elephant,…
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My Red Tango Dress
It seems as if I’ve been working on this tango dress forever. I’ve had a lot of personal distractions and had to put it aside for weeks at a time. When I make costumes, I don’t normally use a pattern, I drape it and make my own pattern. I do adjust the design…
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Bentley
This morning the doctor called around 8am with a status on Bentley. He’s been in the hospital again since early yesterday morning. His sugar spiked up to 700 from 600 earlier in the day and it wasn’t going down then overnight it stayed around 500. He was twitching from neurological problems, most likely caused by…
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Bentley and My Tango Dress
My little dog, Bentley, has been sick for a while now. He has something called non-erosive IMPA Which stands for immune mediated polyarthritis. It’s like a form of lupus in dogs. The erosive form of IMPA is similar to rheumatoid arthritis in humans, but he’s got the non-erosive version form of it. He’s had it…
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Volunteering at the Fort Worth Zoo in MOLA
Today was my second day volunteering at the Fort Worth Zoo. Schools were all off for President’s Day, the weather was in the 70’s with a prediction of rain, but if it rained at all, it was just sprinkles. My first day last week was very quiet, it was cold and cloudy, so there were…
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Changes for 2018
It’s almost February and so far my life has been like a whirlwind. There have been so many changes this year for me, none really planned they just happened. I never make New Years resolutions, I’ve always felt they were too much pressure to keep up. I will set up goals and for the…
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Draping and Designing a Tango Dress and Some Other Costumes from 2016
For some reason I never finished this post back in 2016. I saw this rough draft when I was writing my blog just the other day, so I decided to finish it, a year and a half later. Back in the winter of 2016, I was working on a tango dress, draping it and sewing…
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My New Venture – Training To Be A Ballroom Dance Teacher
Back in July, my dance studio put out a notice that they were looking to train new dance teachers. Teaching dance is something that I have considered, but thought that I was not qualified to teach, so I never pursued it. Besides that, I really didn’t know how to do it, and to do it…
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My Mom 2016
Ok, so this morning I went to visit my mom in the nursing home. I moved her on election day (I only mention that because it’s an easy way to remember the day I moved her) from her old place, Trinity Healthcare, back to the Cityview Care Center where she first started out in…
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Visiting the Dallas Zoo to see baby Ajabu
NOTE: I made some corrections to this blog after my 10-16-16 trip to the zoo. Baby Ajabu was out, so see my Flickr gallery for photos until I am able to write another blog https://flic.kr/s/aHskJZXgX7 Today I decided to go to the Dallas zoo to see the new elephant baby, Ajabu. Ajabu is five months…
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My Reupholstery Procrastination-Mode
So my hands have recovered from removing the thousands of staples from my Queen Anne wing chair and now it’s time to start laying out the pieces. To prepare for this, I bought two books, both excellent books about upholstering furniture, what one is missing, the other one has. Professional Upholstering by Frank T,…
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Day 6 of Reupholstering the Queen Anne Chair Wing Chair
So today I finally finished removing all of the staples, fabric, kapok and foam from the Queen Anne Chair. I still have to take the chair cushion apart, but no more screwdrivers, tack pullers, needle-nose pliers or upholstery staple removers… just a seam ripper and it can be done inside, instead of out in the…
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Visiting Gus, Belle and Bowie at the Fort Worth Zoo 4-27-2016
First of all, I noticed that I haven’t written anything for many many months! I have thought about it, but just haven’t had the chance to sit down and write. As usual for this time of year, I am immersed in flamenco. I can’t say that I’m a flamenco dancer, I’m more of a stage…
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My Mom
My mother has dementia. She was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s, oh, maybe about 15 or 20 years ago. My mother and I have always had a very rocky relationship. I was the only girl, the oldest of 4. The boys meant everything to her and I was, I guess, Daddy’s little girl. He…
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Belle’s 2nd Birthday – July 7, 2015
A surprise birthday party for Belle by the zookeepers at the Fort Worth Zoo
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