Crazy Grandma??

My grand daughters 2nd birthday is coming up soon and I have been trying to figure out what to get for her.  As with most children these days she has lots of clothes and toys already and of course, Christmas has just passed.
I decided to make her a Tutu and Princess crown and searched the internet for instructions.  I found a cute little thing at the fabric store that I think will work for a magic wand.
We will see.
Naturally I never thought to ask my daughter in law if she already has something like this, so I messaged her this morning to ask her.  So while I await her answer I thought that I would confess to be a slightly demented grandmother and ask your opinion of this mess.
The crown is made of the foam sheets with a plastic canvas sheet in between the 2 sheets of foam. I sewed all the baubles onto the front foam and the canvas foam before gluing it all together, I wanted to make sure that the baubles would not come off easily to be put in little mouth, nose or ears.


The whole ensemble.

Close up of the crown.

Close up of the Magic Wand.

Close up of the Tutu.

On a different note we were lucky enough to meet some of the blogs long time readers who live in California.  The wife is from Guaymas and is married to the gentleman from California and they reside there.  They came  down to spend some time with her family over the holidays and they came over for coffee and sweets one day.

After reading my posts about Aconchi and Ures they decided to make a trip up there also and enjoyed the hot springs at Aconchi and stayed in the same hotel we did in Ures.  They enjoyed their little side trip and were nice enough to bring us a bag of peanuts.

They also brought pastries to have with our coffee and along with some raisin tarts that I had made we had lots to eat.

We had a nice visit and they may return for another coffee before they head back up north and back to work.

A nice meeting.

Merry Christmas

A Funny Story

Yesterday was the opening of the exhibition of paintings from the painting classes at the Casa de la Cultura.

Over time I have been working on a 3 painting series of Blue Doors from photos I had taken over the years.  Two of the doors were from old buildings in Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, the other one was of the door of the building that used to house the museum here in Guaymas.

The new Arts and Culture director for Guaymas opened the exhibition after the classes and various dignitaries were introduced and then snacks were served.

While everyone was chatting my teacher came over to me and asked where the one door I had painted was from, was it in Guaymas?  I said yes, it was and explained to him where it was.  He then told me that the new director had asked him who had painted it as he wanted to meet them.  The teacher took me over to him and introduced us and we began chatting.

It turned out that at some point in the directors life he had removed the air conditioner and re- concreted the wall, on the painting I had put in this detail as it showed as a rectangle of a different texture and colour on the photo.  He had also painted the door blue.

What a coincidence!!  He said that he recognized the building and wanted to meet me and tell me about it.  He was surprised when I knew it had been the museum and had visited it before the flood ruined it.

Really odd the things that happen sometimes, to me that was a one in a million chance that anyone would recognize the building or even know anything about it.  Just shows what a small world it is.

This is the painting of the door.  Oil on canvas.

Size: 12 x 15 x 2 in. or 31 x 38 x 5 cm. ssizei