Category: About Me and Things I D0
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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 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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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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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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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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Laura’s Italian Tomato Sauce and Why I Cook Italian
I have been making my own Italian Tomato Sauce since my very early 20’s. I grew up in a small town, Emerson, NJ, which was a suburb of NYC. Emerson at that time was mostly Italian, or at least to me, it seemed to be mostly Italian. Almost all of our family friends were…
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A Jersey Girl In A Winter Storm in Texas
I moved here from New Jersey about 7 years ago, one of the reasons being that I was really tired of the long cold and snowy winters. On Friday, February 27, I had a photography/photoshop workshop to attend at the Arlington Convention Center. The night before, I saw that there was bad weather predicted for the…
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Fluffy and Pippa
Fluffy, was a very special girl, she was a West Highland White Terrier (Westie). I remember the first time I saw her, she was sitting in a corner with some little dachschunds… just sitting there looking at me with her big pink ears. I picked her up and we bonded instantly. Her fur was fuzzy…
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My 2014 Performances
Last year (2014) my goals for the new year were to increase my dancing and to do more artwork, this post is about my dancing, I’ll write another day about my art and photography. BALLROOM So in January of 2014, I performed in a showcase at the downtown YMCA in Fort Worth. Gina Crisanti teaches…
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Designing My Rumba Dress (2014)
Back in September, I decided that I wanted to perform in the Christmas Showcase at my dance studio, DanceMakers in Fort Worth. I started taking some private lessons with Ryan there sometime in August. We were working on the smooth ballroom dances, Fox Trot and Waltz. We thought about doing a Fox Trot at the…
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My Own Pizza Recipe
So this is a little break from my zoo and dancing posts. My hairdresser asked me for my pizza recipe the other day… Over the years I have worked on this and changed it along the way, and now it’s just about perfect. The only thing that would make it better would be to…
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Designing and Constructing A Flamenco Skirt
Click Here for more costumes and designs at my new website (which is still under construction)
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Flamenco…..
In January of this year, I went back to my flamenco classes. I took the Fall session off because I has other things to do on Monday nights, but I did miss it, and I really wanted to be in the performance in May. So here I am, back in flamenco. I started flamenco…
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