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another daily review

Hello there! Just popping in to update whoever cares on what my last few days have been like! (or more because I am a natural documenter and imagine printing this blog out for myself someday when I have a million dollars because I might like to look back and see what I was up to! ha!)

I failed to mention that the other day I was thrilled to be surprised by a super-special-someone  literally showing up at the doorstep and paying me a visit! My first serious boyfriend/best friend whom I haven't seen in over 10 years!! He was my first serious high-school boyfriend, and I brought him up to VT with me for college- and dropped him at a neighboring college (close but not too close, hehe!)- and after college we went our separate ways (him to NYC and me to CA) but always remained good friends. For a bunch of years we lost touch, and now just recently got back in touch, and Monday was the first time I was able to see him in ages! It was so nice to reconnect even though we didn't have much time. He's seriously always been one of my very favorite people on the planet.

Monday was also the first day at my new school and I can honestly say these new students of mine are just as awesome as my old ones! I knew they would be. I only have 13: 10 from Burma, 1 from Somalia, and 2 from Bhutan, ages 24-52. I've had such a great week with them so far, and I love the new school site. I even have an air conditioner in my classroom now! woohoo!

Let's see, what else...as you can see in the above picture,  I am still juicing! Today's after-work drink was Beet-Carrot-Apple-Nectarine and it was so good! And it just so happens that today's prompt over at my flickr photo group is "Beverages".

So I'm aching to work on my art journals more but the days are flying by! I am about to make some salad for dinner, and then I MUST give the garden a good watering again! It's been so hot and dry for days. I wouldn't mind a little of that rain we had last month right about now.

My foot update is that I'm back to the world of the walking!! I barely limp now and I can actually wash my foot! I almost forget how to walk normally after walking on the side of my foot for 2 weeks!

Ok, so I'm off now to go check on what this girl is up to, and get something productive done, but I will certainly be back real soon...

Thanks for visiting!

today's schedule

1. woke up at 8:30am, drank 2 cups of tea

2: ate leftover Italian food for breakfast. why not.

3. checked emails, watched some Mary Ann Moss videos, prepared work copies

4. went to work. had an awesome time. love my new school/students!

5. picked up Scarlet from my mom's house

6. went grocery shopping

7. finished the project kits for my art party (18 days!)

8. wrote my cousin who is in boot camp a fun letter scrapbook-style

9. cooked a yummy dinner and ate 2 sour-cream-loaded baked potatoes

10. sat down to the computer to write this.

Next on the agenda...............

*dishes

*water the garden

*shower #2

*make bananas foster for a late dessert

*art journal a bit

*beddy-bye!

big-mish-mash-recap

ahhhh...so busy lately! I have so many things to share, but I will streamline it for you! Let me just throw out a messy recap of what the last few days consisted of!

Beautiful days here on the pond. We had a little mini-party last night, with food, drinks, swimming, fishing and a bonfire with marshmallows! It was hot and gorgeous. We saw this guy fly over....

Scarlet's friend got dropped off from her paddleboat (it's so fun living on a lake where you boat kids to each other!) and they went in the sprinkler..

Friday night Scarlet got to play for 2 hours at Chuck E. Cheese with her friend who she gave kisses to...

(he was lovin' those kisses!)

In the mail on Saturday I received an awesome package from Kimberly ...

I was the winner of her Pink Giveaway and got all this great stuff! Thank you so much Kimberly!!

All weekend I was absolutely OBSESSED with the new online class by the hilarious, talented, super fun and cool Mary Ann Moss who I adore!

I seriously could not do anything else but make these journals! I was unable to focus on anything yesterday until this was complete!

Things like this are what make me get out of bed in the morning I swear! I'm utterly in heaven when it comes to handmade journals. Working on new techniques is blissful!

I've only tried one of the binding techniques from the class and there are still 2 more to learn! I wish I signed up for this sooner when I was layed-up on the couch and didn't have to work, because it's truly all I want to do now!

Yesterday when I completed this journal I pulled out a 20 X 20 canvas and did a collage background for a piece I'm making for my family room. I sat outside and glued and glued, and it was so relaxing.

Let's see...what else.....I made some more juice! This time Ginger-Peach, a bit too heavy on the ginger! I don't think I'll get a stomachache for the next year after drinking all that ginger!

I also forgot to show a couple more ATCs between Ellie and I. First theme was Whites and Creams and I made her this card...

and she made me this one...

Then theme 2 was Nature and I made her this one...

and she made me this one...

Always fun to trade ATCs!

I'm also loving the photos going up at the July 2011 in Photos flickr group ! Today's prompt is "Orange and Pink together" which I must think about today! Feel free to join in the group anytime...it's never too late. Just another way to get your creativity flowing!

Well I better go and get something productive done so I can start another journal! Happy Sunday!

today's finds

Hello my friends! Happy Friday. Stitches are out! I'm still walking with a limp, and the area is sore, but all is on the up-and-up! I made it to the Antique Mall to look for one thing, which I didn't find, and ended up finding some other goodies instead.

This pin I couldn't pass up...it was half off and I HAD to have it!

Then I found a millinery hat that I already disassembled...

it was loaded with a good variety of flowers

and lastly, these awesome photographs!...

So now I'm off to Chuck E. Cheese (worst.place.ever.), and then I'm coming home to make salsa, wheatgrass juice and start a new 20 X 20 canvas.

It ain't a sexy night but it could be worse!

I'm juicing!

Hurray! I finally used my new juicer! Today for lunch was fresh vegetable juice. It started off looking like this:

5 beets, 2 stalks of celery, 2 carrots and a few slices of apple

and ended up looking like this:

so yummy!!

if you have any really good juicer recipes, please do share them with me!

foot vacation over!

Yes, it did feel like a bit of a vacation just laying on the couch for a week while my mom kept my house from falling apart! But on the 8th day I shaved my legs (finally!), did my primping and got back into life. It was so nice to get back out to my normal spots (sushi bar, grocery store, cafes...) and be part of life again!

Here are some random peeks into my last 2 days...

(just look at that minimally-bandaged foot!)

little detail of architecture over my head at the cafe

buying lots of fruit...hoping to get that juicer rolling soon!

taking a bright photo for my flickr group (which you should go join!)

fort-making

a new basil plant since my deck herbs roasted from neglect

something sweet for the photo group

a sample of the project for my Garden Art Party

lots of popsicles!

Hope everyone is having a fun post-4th week!

the gory details! (look away now!)

Well, now that I can hobble on the outer side of my foot, I will deliver the promised photos from the foot incident. Let's just start by saying I never hurt myself, it's been years, and in the same week as this foot laceration I also got a fat, bloody lip from Scarlet accidently bumping me with her rock head, a goose-egg size bump on my forehead from slamming the car door into myself, and I also bit another part of my lip FOUR times in one day. So I was already on  a roll by the time this happened.

Let me set the scene...a beautiful, care-free, perfect-weather evening at my favorite beach with a favorite person of mine. Around 5:00pm I decide I'm going to jump in and swim in the E.coli infested water because the lifeguards left and no one could tell me otherwise. And hey, when you're having fun, what's a little E.coli? Duh.

Well since I can't follow rules, I not only swim in closed water, but I swim in the area beyond the beach boundaries, not thinking that there's probably a ton of rocks, debris, and maybe even glass! I go cruising right into the waves and about 4 feet in I do this:

Gross!!!! I know!

Now picture getting out of the water and being a mile down the sand from my car! So I tie my sundress around it and walk back! Obviously I couldn't drive..thank God I wasn't alone!

So then I stop home to change, wrap a towel around it and head to the hospital. After 3 hours it gets to this point...

And then it was time to go get a Tetanus shot, head to get my anti-biotics, and pick up a pizza to go!

None of it even phased me at the time, it was only the next day when I realized I couldn't walk that I realized this kind of sucked. Don't ask me why I didn't think a cut down the arch of my foot would keep my homebound. So I crawled on my hands and knees for 5 days, and now I'm able to limp around on it a bit! Look how good it looks now!...

I get the stitches out Friday! woohoo! I never appreciated my feet so much!

Now I have to get over the sun-poisioning on my chest (which I think has something to do with the anti-biotics) and my daily nausea (again, the meds).

So the point of this story is, don't do what I would do.

Or,walk slow when you enter bacteria-infested water.

xo

 

and the winner is.....

The winner of the Cortez dress, as drawn by the random number generator (which I have no idea how to upload to my blog to show!) was comment #12.......

Ashley! congratulations! I will email you shortly!

And don't forget if you shop at Shabby Apple this month don't forget to get your 10% off by mentioning the code "kandeland10off" !!

Thanks to all who entered!

I finally left the house!

I've been housebound with this bunk foot and today was the photo group's "Where I went today" prompt, and since I'm the one who made up these prompts I thought I'd try and hobble out of the house for a tiny bit!

I was finally able to put a little pressure on the outer side of my foot so I wrapped it up and limped around the garden market for a bit! Got some petunias and fruit.

(Notice how Scarlet had to have some sympathy pain and get a little booboo on her knee!)

When I got home I loaded the market raspberries into the blender and blended us up some creamy drinks...

After that a friend came over with these pretty flowers and a candle to brighten up my day...

That about sums up today! Otherwise I am continuously nauseous (I think due to the antibiotics I'm on), I'm getting into another book, my mom-the-saint came and cleaned my house and car, I've been working on art kits for my party and I'm looking forward to going to bed.

I hope everyone has a fantastic 4th! And the 4th is also the last day to leave a comment here to be entered to win a fabulous summertime dress!

Be back on Tuesday with the winner!

todays photo group prompt

It's been lots of fun so far over at the new flickr group I'm hosting! Today I am putting out the prompt "Something you're passionate about" and it's so interesting to see what the members photograph.

For me it was art journaling...

And since I've been layed-up on the couch all week I have gotten to work on some more, which is nice. I'm quite passionate about a LOT of things, but this was the easiest one to photograph from my couch! Who knew when I was planning the photo group that I'd be an invalid for the start of it! But soon I will be walking again! Yay!

What are you passionate about? Why not photograph it, and show us HERE !