Art | A Thankfully Imperfect Woman

Feb 10

220 Minus Your Age

As an adult the highest your pulse rate should go up is figured at 220 minus your age.

This fact (?) was just stated on last week’s episode of Bones that I’m just now watching – thank you DVR.

I enjoy watching Bones…not the blood and gore part, but there’s something fascinating to me about how they figure out who committed the murder.

Must be a flashback to my days of watching Murder, She Wrote with my Dad. Which explains why I still love watching that show.

Angela Lansbury is my hero. She lived this wonderful life teaching, and then reinvented herself after her husband passed away and Walaa! a mystery writer was born. Of course, somewhere along the line murders started showing up in her life…weekly it seems if we go by the show’s schedule. I always thought to myself…”Who on earth would want to be this woman’s friend – someone is always dying around her!”

Alas, I digress… Read more

Feb 3

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My Favorite Things…

Yes, I am singing Julie Andrews version…”These are a few of my favorite things…”.

I just loved that movie.

For a multitude of reasons, really. Here’s just a few…

#1…my sister Carol brought me to see it when it was released and it was the first movie I’d ever gone to in a theater!

#2…the singing….oh the singing…to be so carefree! Of course, I was really young and the levity of the story didn’t sink in, I was too enthralled by the singing!

#3…the scenery…mansions and mountains and cobblestone streets!

It’s all so lovely. Julie Andrews is lovely. They made life feel lovely.

Which brings me to a few of MY favorite things (besides the movie, that is): Read more

Jan 4

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I love you to the Moon and back…

My husband was not supposed to buy me a Christmas gift this year. You see I’d purchased myself a fabulous ring at one of our local festivals and it was supposed to be my Christmas gift (never mind that I wore it already in September). But honestly, I truly wanted nothing more. Did he listen? No.

The man doesn’t listen. I swear he never listens to me when it comes to gift giving. That would be one of his few flaws. I really, really, really didn’t want him to get me anything. With that being said… Read more

Jan 3

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From whence we came…

I love this little area on my wall…

The vintage kitchen tools somehow remind me of my Mom…she didn’t own these particular ones, and only had a few similar, but somehow they remind me of her. I think it’s the red handles. She loved red and I love vintage. Needless to say I had to have these.

The top two pictures are of my Dad as a little boy (on the left), and my Mom as a little girl (on the right). I love these photos and the innocence they represent. Simple pictures of a little boy going fishing and a little girl playing with her dollies. Beautiful snapshots of them enjoying the things they loved – and continued to love through adulthood! Dad loved to fish and Mom loved babies. The stories I could tell… Read more