`Well, I didn’t even think I had a collection of Buddha statues until my sister, Marilyn and sister-in-law Patty said to me I should do a blog post on all the Buddhas that I have…so I guess I do have enough Buddhas to consider it a “Collection,” and here it is…notice how each Buddha has his own personality!
I’ll start with Continue reading “🙏🏽My Buddha Collection and Sharing an Apple Tree🍎”
During Labor Day Weekend we hosted our good friends Frank and Sue, at our cottage on Cape Cod…we went to Wellfleet for a day, we were excited to walk Marconi Beach, find a place to sit and keep an eye out for seals and sharks!!! Continue reading “🦈Beauty in Nature on Cape Cod🌲”
My mom 75 years ago…a photo she gave to Continue reading “💗Happy Mother’s Day to My Mom💐”
It was a very busy week…it started with a visit from my good friend Claire, who shares my love for decorating cookies, …
We had icing up to our elbows and exchanged Continue reading “🌸A Week of🌷Spring Crafts🏀Ending with🌱Grass Roots🎸”
This segment in my last post regarding the photo with dots of lights on Victor’s sweater…
I said they were his family who had passed, come to wish him a happy 70th birthday…Well that post got so much attention with people mentioning that they also get signs from loved ones who have passed… So I thought I would Continue reading “🌈Signs Spirit Send Us🦋”
This is the Fairbank’s House, which happens to be close to where we live…it is the oldest wooden house in America and is located in Dedham, Massachusettes. It was built by Jonathan and Grace Fairbanks in 1636 for their family of 6 children and has stayed in the Fairbanks family until 1904 when it became a historical museum!! The roof is sagging, but it has been well taken care of over the years…
This is the front of the house as seen from the street…The middle part with the chimney was the original Continue reading “👻A Haunted House and Halloween Goodie Bags🎃”
While the teachers went back to school I was driving to the Cape, over the Sagamore Bridge blasting the radio and singing to Charlie on the MTA, I don’t know why but it was playing on the radio and it spoke to me!! If you’re my generation and from Boston, you would probably remember that song by the Kingston Trio!!
Not much Continue reading “🛍When Retirement Kicked In🚴”
🥂The Party… At the end of the school year, our school staff gets together for a party…if anyone from our school is retiring they will honor them at this party…And so it was my turn to be honored at the party along with another colleague!!! My outfit for the party…A blue peacock print dress, with bell sleeves trimmed in blue lace from Dressbarn, a black crochet shoulder bag … Continue reading 🚌My Last Days of Kindergarten Started with a Party🥂
This is a story about how a beautiful oil painting came about…Little did I know when I took
a renaissance like photo of a salmon dinner ingredients for a March post that it would be turned into a lovely oil painting by Antoinette Barnum (top photo from yearbook.) Toni, as we call her, and I graduated from a Massachusettes high school together in 1970…We were in the same homeroom and art classes together. Toni was friendly, popular, talented and she was a Continue reading “🎨Anatomy of an Oil Painting…When Two Spirits Come Together💕”
I feel very lucky to have Betty as my friend…she is a teacher at our school and makes 24 Loaves of Irish Soda Bread for staff members at our school, every year for St. Patrick’s Day!! It takes her two days and she uses Continue reading “🍀I’m Lucky🍀”
