Guess who’s coming to dinner? My sister! Get a load of the list of things she wants to do while she’s here. You should have seen last year’s list. Someone’s sedintery lifestyle is getting ready to get shaken up and it’s not the cat posse’s.
1. Rent an RV.
2. Go see the towering coastal dunes in Guadalupe and go to oso flaco lake natural area and take the 2 ½ mile round trip hike to the beach, bring shovel to dig up old pieces of movie set from The ten commandments.
3. Shoot out light behind sister’s house.
4. Get to the rose bowl flea market whenever it is.
5. Go to. Il Capriccio on Vermont – get the chocolate torte
6. Vintage café and Bistro for breakfast – get the bread pudding French toast.
7. Go to Julienne in San Marino for Breakfast – same place you saw Daryl Gates the year you learned to ride a bike.
8. Go to the Armenian Starbucks at the NE corner of Hollywood and Western for a cup of Joe and to write in our journals.
9. Go to Malibu Seafood
10. Go to Sprinkles in Beverly hills for a cupcake
11. See some red headed parrots – wherever they are.
12. Go to the cottage garden next to trader Joe’s in South Pasadena and drool over the red/pink/beautiful poppies.
13. Go to Fatty’s and for sure get a “little pinky” for dessert.
14. Find Harry Bosch’s house. Then go to Musso & Franks.
15. This Metro angel directed me into the hills of Mt. Washington. Go see the metro angel.
16. Go to at least one farmers market.
17. Go see the pink Jesus, Mary, Joseph house in vicinity of strapping australian cowboy – combination stairway walk
18. This really doesn’t need to go on the list but I will put it here anyway – Tropical Café at least twice
19. Go to NORMS and get chicken fried steak with gravy and eggs and hash browns.
20. Rent Big Fish with Albert Finney.
21. go to yarn store 5028 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90041
22. make chicken picata with limoncella and buttermilk mashed potatoes and chipotle chicken sausage with goat cheese pizza and apple pear crisp for dessert
Yo Sister you forgot something… hows about we climb to Mt. Wilson and hang our bras from the tippy top of the tallest radio transmitter?
Oh, here’s a visual journal page. (fresh out of clever segues)
Oh, here’s another one.
Hive mind is active in the blogosphere. Everywhere I go I read about someone else cleaning and organizing their studios. Mine’s really not a studio though. More like a workshop for 3 small gnomes, or 2 medium sized elves, or maybe one regular sized hobbit, which if you know anything about hobbits you know they aren’t regular-sized. They’re little.
This is my small taboret which sits under my small workbench in my small workshop. Those are the new Anthropologie drawer knobs I picked up today. They must have 40 or so different styles to choose from. I like the look of the gleaming little knobs against my grubby little cabinet.
I decided I couldn’t live without this shadowy floral spray. I cut a stencil of it the other day. Now I need to locate some flat grey spraypaint so everything can have floral shadows. This was just a little experimentation after the initial cut.
This is my clever sister’s new visual journal. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s absolutely fabulous. We’ll be working into the wee hours in our books.
A page from her visual journal.
p.s. sister that fish reminds me of the one you caught and released on our deep sea fishing expedition last year. sorry to dredge up bad memories but remember how you tripped over the bait bucket and you almost fell out of the boat? remember how right before we got on the boat you said to me as I was lagging behind, ‘come on it’ll be funny’
What a fabulous list! Can I be your sister?
(ps. how did the sand digging go- have you gotten there yet?)
🙂 melanie
Wow…you girls are going to have SOME fun!! and ditto on #22!
You are TWO very talented ladies and I can’t wait to see what you create together…
Jesus. What kind of gene pool do you two come from that you can BOTH make pages like that??
What a list! Sounds like fun to attempt everything on it! Love those glass handles! Hope those fires and smoke is not affecting you!!!
I am impressed that you girls are going to even consider that list. Love those new pages, made me gasp. Save me some left overs and invite me over for the light shooting out party!!
Look out L A, the Moss sisters are on the loose! What a brilliant time you’ll have; you two have to be the best team since Lucy and Desi. I love both of your pages, journals, etc. and that list has me all excited; I don’t even know what half that stuff is (but I want to learn!!) I’ll hoist one and think of you if you’ll hoist one and think of me. ((((hugs all around)))) xoxoxoxoxoxox
Be safe in all of the fires, worried about all of you folks in LA! Hope that the cat posse is surviving, too!
Gwen
huh? now you know good and well that I am the one that said “let’s not do this, it looks dangerous”. you were the one that laughed in my face and said “dangerous! smangerous! don’t be a spoil sport”. Then YOU said “it’ll be funny when I push you overboard and you have to get rescued.” that is when I tripped over the bait bucket trying to get away from you. It was funny though when you got sea sick and I waited until you threw up at least once before I remembered the dramamine in my pocket.
yummies for all of the senses – what a list – wish I could have that some kind of fun with mine… ahhhhh gee… wondering about you and the fires we have been hearing about…? – love the knobs in all those colors – oh anthropologie… new flower stencils – oh ho my yes!!!!!!!!!!!! and sis’ too…
xox – eb.
m.a.~I LOVE IT~okay…okay…I have to learn what and how to make a visual journal now! Are you happy? Deep breath. I LOVE IT. The Fish, the Fairy Tale…I am excited about YOUR sister’s journal. It is BEAUTIFUL~is it the colors~is it the title~I don’t know, but I LOVE IT. And, THANKS for opening it up! Excited am I? Yes, I am.
And, btw, m.a. I LOVE thos knobs! You are the BOMB girl!
xoxox
I think you will have to add “take trip to the fat farm” at the end of the list!
I want to play with you two. I want my very own sister.
Your stencil is great, her pages are wonderful.
The knobs remind me of my grandma and the smell of cigarrettes and rose perfume. Isn’t that odd? I think her’s were in her sewing area but I can’t remember. Sister fun is the best. Sounds like you will be really busy if you even get to half of the things on her list. 🙂
You’re going to need an extended vacation after sister’s visit. Looks like she’s bent on making you gallop even faster than the little wild ponies do.
I fell in love with glass knobs in Anthropologie too. Spent weeks imagining where I could use them. YES! I have a desk with 8 little drawers. Now each drawer has a different pink glass knob. Gorgeous.
LOVE your hpbbit space!! And I adore your sisters list!! Ha, looks like you will be very very busy!!! Also, that journal!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You girls are just too much!! xoxox
love your pages m.a. and the shadow thing is clever! how long is sister staying? that is a hummer of a list to get through! coveting that brown shrine on the top shelf, swoon! and i want some of #22.