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What?! Where is my diamond necklace?!

Every now and then I clean out my jewelry box. I usually re-organize and inventory. Every few years there is a purging of ill purchases or a discovery that some valuable has gone missing, temporarily, or worse, stolen (I'd never misplaced something valuable, had to be stolen). Such was my discovery. My mother gave me a beautiful diamond solitaire pendant on a gold chain for my 15th birthday. It was one of those things that you watched, was aware of, knew when it passed hands and into whose hands it was passing because it was valuable in so many ways. I tried to get it back from those hands today and that person denied even knowing what I was talking about.

I had shown it to someone I was close to at the time and said her daughter could use it for her First Communion. Said she could hold on to it until I moved. Felt it was safer with her than with me and the moving thing. I was so wrong. I tried to get it back from those hands today and that person denied even knowing what I was talking about.

So now what? Can't get the original back do you replace and pretend it is the original? Will a stand-in placate and fill the void? To some extent, in this case, yes. Simply because a new one can be procured that looked exactly like the original one but still, a sad thing. I thought a simple email would get it back but now they deny ever borrowing it, having it and even seeing it or knowing what I'm talking about. So if you lost it, just tell me, if you sold it, just tell me, if you want it, just tell me, but don't say you don't know what I speak of.

Anyway, I'll be selling a bag of faux baubles,trinkets, and rings on Ebay soon.

Mythical California Notes

I had a few brushes with the California myth:
My godmother was a make-up artist and hair stylist in Hollywood back in the late 60's and early 70's. She has always been glamorous herself and when she and my godfather would drive into town it was really something, to me. They would talk about how we should all move to California and for some reason I would get really hung up on Death Valley and ghost towns rather than Disneyland. Later they moved to Fullerton and Annaheim to raise a family before ending up in Corona all boring, save Fullerton (I think its pretty cool as far as Mexican American culture goes). But to this day they still retain a gothic,70's sort of California glamour. It was my godmother who fueled the entire childstar dream with her "connections".

We never moved to California. My mother had spent a substantial amount of time living and traveling all over California in the 60's before ending up in Texas. Her stories of San Francisco never included Haight Ashbury excursions, she saw it but didn't approve. My mother was a complete square who was in California to go to college and experience the American dream she saw in American movies growing up in Mexico. Still, she found time to hang in Tahoe between semesters and saw Venice beach, Malibu, hung at the National Parks and roomed with a Black Panther before graduating from University of the Pacific in Stockton. My mother did find the California she saw in the movies, the utopian land of good taste and culture, classy, sophisticated, fine and well coiffed. She caught that instant in America.

Joan Didion wrote about California the way I pictured it when my mom would talk about her time there. There was pre-Manson and post-Manson (my mother was there until May or so of 1970). Death Valley and ghost towns and Manson all went hand and hand. I had heard the story growing up, I was three and four years old and they were still going on about Manson.

I've not visited California but to this day it holds an eclectic mess of images that were put in my head at very young age (3-7 first years of life, in fact). As I heard the stories the pictures were forming and have remained, giving me the convincing illusion that I was there, post Manson. Didion confirmed it but none of it is real. Very odd and a testament to the effects conversation, television and parent have on child.


Interest Du Jour: Miki Dora, Mike Nader, screenprinting

Nothing Ever Was Said

My husband and I don't watch much television. We use the television to watch our DVDs but that is the extent of it. Cable always kept me glued to the tv and then my days were spent around Time Warner's schedule. I've thought about cable but I just don't want to go back to that.

Every waiting room and restaurant tv in town is always on Fox News, MSNNBC or CNN. How is that for offensive! When you are a Democrat and opposed to the war and can't stand the moran in office, it is tres offensive to walk into propaganda, lies and denial blaring. We are always the first to shut it off. Don't like that? Tough, we turn it off, unless the clicker has been politely left on table then we switch it to TVLand. There isn't a news station in town that is worth watching. News from abroad, news blogs, newspapers online are a better source of news if there are any to be had these days.

Referring to post 6/3/2006

To recap: I was in search of a photo booth that combined images of you and your sig to create the future child. It does exist at Dave and Busters...OF COURSE! Why didn't I think of Dave and Busters? Actually I have never step foot in one but have passed one hanging on the corner of a strip mall many times. We must enter this Dave and Busters soon. UGH! But anyway, enjoy this uber funny post from someone's blog regarding their own experince with this Gene Machine:
http://www.whitless.com/

Amigurumi Animals and Dolls...WHAT?

Is that what they are calling them now? When I made them in the early to mid 90's they were called dog chew toys or folk art craft thingies or just dumb. Now they are all the rage?! I made cute rabbits and birds, mostly penguins and these big headed doll types and monkeys. It sux to be at the mercy of trends. I mean what I did back then was cute and original and fresh and CUTE! However there was no magazine, blog, tv show or clique telling anyone to buy these, to make these, to appreciate these, to love these things so no one except me and a tiny group of friends did.

I used to attach them to key rings and wear them on backpacks, purses and jackets. I used to attach them to gifts with a ribbon and lil story of who they were and what the personality was and how to care for it...cutsie, gimmicky stuff like that. In fact my friend who was a school teacher only four or five years ago (six?) received some cute ones from a student and she tossed them to her dog. WHAT?
"But they are cute", I said.
"Yeah well, I never liked this student anyway, they are ugly, stupid, what am I supposed to do with them?" , she would grumble.
We laughed as the dog ripped the poor little creatures apart. But now they are "flying off shelves" at Etsy claims Ready Made Magazine (know what else? I got the very issue of this when it came out, I'm being a braggert now, I'll cool it before you dislike me as I hear the public can turn on you just like that {finger snap}).

Bitter? I'm not bitter about a few crochet dolls I made a few years ago. No, just very surprised at once more being ahead of the times with something so simple. I knew they were CUTE, I knew they were fun to make and have etc... Yesterday's "chew toy" is today's mega craft trend. ART shows with them even...that could have been me had I not packed them away and instead pushed them on the world but I had other things going on. Now if a tree falls in the forest...That's right, I along with a few others out there were doing this in our twenties ten years ago and no one bought it. To all of us still creating the weirdo item of today that no one is blown away with: Hold on to it, record your lonesome original creation, that way you have proof when it emerges as pop art, fad, the end all, the cat's pajamas, you have proof you were there first. Or just mail it to some craft guru type on any cable show that features hipsters with glue with nothing but conviction and $20 and a promise to make them trendier than thou. Actually, I think this would work better with Giant Robot editors....but in any case just don't be the only one loving it! Now GO! I um...I'm going to uh...dig up some old things I made and uh, maybe , sort of make some more.

Minutiae: OTM Tiki Monkey is coming

1. I'll be continuing Abuelita's Chango but I work forty hours a week and simply,that leaves me little time. Some ideas don't get executed and trust me, they are FABULOUS! I stick to projects that are fast and easy to make and don't showcase all I can do with a hook. I especially love working with the tiniest gauge cotton thread and am unable to show you all that.

2. Endless Summer, pretty much took my breath away. First time I have ever seen it, though been meaning too for years and years. I have always had a deep appreciation for what a person can do. It's orgasmic to see someone pick up a guitar and just strum out a song then in hours, the lyrics and there you go, an entire song, to see someone just cut and piece and sew up a gorgeous dress or see someone pick up a brush and just paint. When they make it look easy, like you can just do it too, just like that(finger snap), you know they are great. I'm not easily impressed but when I am, I am speechless.

3. -Rough Draft Tiki Monkey Logo...needs to be cleaned up.

For other info and updates regarding Abuelita's Chango or One Tough Monkey: Contact Me.

4. Watched an Elvis movie with our very own Elvis Fried Peanut Butter Sandwhich...yes, very good.

5. Realized I haven't stepped foot in Wal- Mart in three years! Actually we did once and it was oogy. Target rulz! I realized this when I cleaned out my art box and found dried up inks and paints with Wal-Mart stickers on them. Why didn't I frequent Hobby Lobby or Miller's more? But it feels good not to feed that corp monster. I can only feed so many corp mosters at a time. But really, the ones in this town seem to be messy (24 hours no down time for cleaning and stocking) and never enough cashiers so you stand in long lines forever. I prefer Target.

Manuel Moreno Rivas

Twenty two years ago my uncle Manuel Moreno Rivas gave a speech to the members of the Arizona Southern District of Rotary International regarding communism as a threat to Latin American countries. His speech was of the times. It was the opinion of a man worried about the welfare of his country and the Mexican people and extended that concern to the rest of Latin America. Because he was Mexican and speaking out against Communism and {gulp} praised Reagan's fight against Communism as well...the Right Wing Extremist (corrupt assholes) of this country have taken his words and used them for everything from backing up a pre-emotive strike on Iraq to the recent immigration issue. This is an ignorant and asinine use of his words. My uncle's words are twisted to the point that complete sentences are void and replaced with....to continue with part of another sentence several paragraphs later to make their point.

The Right Wing loves nothing more than to have a Mexican's (deceased and unable to defend his speech) words used against his own country and people. This is what they do each time the use his speech out of context. My uncle loved his country. He never sought to become an American citizen, his only child remains a Mexican citizen. It was his concern, at the time, that the US was not doing enough for Latin America. He feared the social, political and economic shape of all Latin American countries made them ripe for Communism, at the time. He ended the speech with a plea to the US Government to remember Latin America and not forget it.

I was at the table several times when my uncle spoke of the US and it's view of Latin America, that was in fact, no view at all. He did believe racism had a huge part in the US disregard for countries south of the border. He said this would end up biting the US in the ass one day and it was in their best interest to help Latin American countries. Because it was 1984 and the fear of Communism high he used the situation to bring attention to the fact that these countries were poor and should Communist aid come to these countries they could gain a foothold on the borders and creep into American soil.

That era is gone and sadly, so is my uncle. NAFTA did not solve the problems of Latin America and Red Dawn was only a [bad] movie, but the Right Wing continues to use his speech. I would ask that they cease and desist. This is a relic of the tail end of the Cold War. If my uncle were alive today I know for a fact he would be defending his speech as such. In fact he would be quite surprised that it is even referenced twenty two years later because the world has changed.

In fact, I can play the-take Manuel Moreno Rivas speech out of context- game too...I could replace the threat of Communism with the threat of a corrupt US government. We can apply the situation of any Latin American country at the time to the US now(unemployment, the disappearing middle class, corrupt governments). But one thing that I will quote is the dramatic finish as the US finds itself more and more in the snares of corruption and deceit, I can see it applied to our country's citizens more and more :

"When a man feels that all his resources have failed, when he finds himself at the end of his capacity and becomes convinced that all his efforts are in vain, when frustration and desperation overcome him and he knows that there is nothing he can accomplish by himself, he turns to the Almighty God and prays. And we are praying! We are asking God to save us from slavery. We are begging for the preservation of peace based upon the dignity of man. We call upon the Lord to give you the wisdom that we are not allotted so you can be saved from treason, and deceit and snaring...
We pray for your welfare, and your freedom and democracy. We pray for the United States of America.
I thank you."

Sorry, the speech will not be published on my blog as it is too easy to find and abuse yet again.

SOY is not a healthy food!

In the country soy is pushed upon us as a cure-all from kidney health to cancer fighter to well woman super drug. This couldn't be further from the truth. Soy is only beneficial to us in it's fermented form of tofu, miso and tempeh and not to be consumed excessively. If you look at the ingredients of any food item being sold in the US today it will contain soy. Ingredients like textured vegetable protein (TVP) and isolated soy concentrate may appear in foods that would rarely be expected to contain soy. Then there is soy milk. It has been said soy milk is just a plastic byproduct. Think about it. Soy is grown and used primarily for the plastics industry. The processing of soybeans produces the carcinogens lysinoalanine and nitrosamines, as well as aluminum and trans fatty acids

Soy as goitrogen
Goitrogen: A substance or product that may cause harm to the thyroid. Goitrogens are good for us once they have been steamed or cooked like cabbage, broccoli, watercress etc..., heat releases the anti-oxidants that protect against cancer. Soy harms the thyroid by causing damage to enzymes that produce thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine. Iodine is blocked which is essential for proper thyroid function. Synthroid is America's number one selling drug and is prescribed for hypothyroidism.

Soy also contains more isothiocyanates that appear to reduce thyroid function by blocking thyroid peroxidase, and also by disrupting messages that are sent across the membranes of thyroid cells. In addition, the isoflavones in soy have been associated with decreased thyroid hormone output. Isoflavones are naturally-occurring substances that belong to the flavonoid family of nutrients. The link between isoflavones and decreased thyroid function is, in fact, one of the few areas in which flavonoid intake has called into question as problematic. Isoflavones like genistein appear to reduce thyroid hormone output by blocking activity of an enzyme called thyroid peroxidase. This enzyme is responsible for adding iodine onto the thyroid hormones. (Thyroid hormones must typically have three or four iodine atoms added on to their structure in order to function properly.)

Infants given soy formulas when they were unable to consume breast milk.
Please read:
Soybeans also contain high levels of phytic acid or phytates. This is an organic acid, present in the outer portion of all seeds, which blocks the uptake of essential minerals-calcium, magnesium, iron and especially zinc-in the intestinal tract. Soybeans have very high levels of a form of phytic acid that is particularly difficult to neutralize. As early as 1967, researchers testing soy formula found that it caused negative zinc balance in every infant to whom it was given. Scientists have found a strong correlation between phytate content in formula and poor growth, even when the diets were additionally supplemented with zinc. High amounts of phytic acid in soy foods and grains have caused retarded growth in children on macrobiotic diets. A reduced rate of growth is especially serious in the infant as it causes a delay in the accumulation of lipids in the myelin, and hence jeopardizes the development of the brain and nervous system.

So, there is enough evidence for me to conclude that soy is bad. We ingest so much of it already without knowing or intending to so why do we need to supplement this diet with even more concentrated soy products? Foods become chemicals in our bodies and too much of anything can create an imbalance in our systems. Everything I have written is based on what I found online. Sure it's all pseudo science out there, to some extent, but at least consider it the next time you find your cart filled with soy muffins, soy milk, soy supplemented cereal and soy supplemented snack bars and a soy supplement in capsule form.

http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/infant.html
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=47

make those walls shut up!

In my twenties I attended many a party at some home in Hyde Park and various hoods around town. I would always notice the house and sometimes feel sorry for it especially the ones that had empty, imported beer bottles lining the window sills or some hideous "found art" piece scratching up the wood floors. But I always remembered the houses. It's funny to see those homes listed with MLS numbers all cleaned up and freshly painted with "renovations" or descriptions like, "Open floor plan, great for family" when you knew it when it was a junky party house. I always love to see the renovations and I love that they finally got TLC but can't help but wonder how funny it would be if the new owners from out of town with two babies knew that their floor was once caked with dried beer,dirt and general funk, that there was a line of people once all wanting to get into that bathroom to vomit, piss, make out and do drugs, and lets not even get into the bedrooms. Even with renovations...Unless the house is gutted the carnal stains, transparent as they may seem, are still there.

I lived in a home in Hyde Park for a year and a half. It was cute place, built in 1929. The woman across the street had told me it once had a lovely lot of roses growing next to it but the family that owned it was not nice. The lady of the home had become ill in the 50's and called the pharmacy to ask a few questions about her medication. It was winter time and all the gas heaters were running. She had left him on hold to go fetch her prescription bottle and had not returned. This became a problem because it was tying up the pharmacist's line (phone lines not the way they are now) so he sent someone over to see what was up. The clerk arrived to find the place locked tight and smoke slipping under the door. He quickly alerted neighbors and fire trucks were called while he broke a window to find the lady of the house slumped over the gas heater roasting. She was dead. It was not clear whether she had a heart attack and fell over or had tripped and unable to get up had died a tortured death.

That same house became home to one of the biggest pot dealers in town in the 60's. Later in the 70's the backyard had been filled with old cars because a mechanic was living there. The oil from those cars did damage to the soil and when it would rain, the water would not seep through in parts. In the 80's it was home to the owner of some restaurant until the 90's when I moved in with a few others. All this time it had been passed along informally, without a lease and without much of a rent increase, my share was $80.33. There were boxes in the front room, loads of things in every drawer in the kitchen, cool lps on the floor...I thought these all belonged to the guy who was living there. Tired of the junk I asked if there was some way we could clean up. He said only what was in his room what his. WHAT?!

Apparently everything in the house was a leftover from previous tenants. The junk had turned into a smorgasborg of treasures: A numbered White Album (The Clash, Ramones, KISS, Elvis, Beach Boys I could go on and on but it made up half my record collection at the time), tons of early 60's and 70's lps all mine, cool art books all mine, neat vintage kitchen items, all mine...And what I didn't want like $200 worth of beads and jewelry making supplies went to friends. Within months though, the landlord who had not been there since 1983 came by and was surprised to see that so-so had longed moved out and there were six people in a four bedroom home paying only $485 a month. Changes came fast, hoards of old junk in the shed and backyard was hauled out, holes in walls patched, latches on windows put in, new wiring etc... When the carpet was lifted in one of the rooms, underneath was an old piece of linoleum and old Weekly Readers from the 30's, an old report card and newspapers from the 40's all smelling of mildew but otherwise somewhat intact. WWII headlines, first run Dick Tracy Sunday comics in color print and the pages of an entire old Sears catlogue circa 1940. Why they were there , who knows but they managed to stay readable and nearly unharmed for over fifty years. To this day I get creeped out when I think of the time I picked up a bottle of bleach to do my whites and opened it to find needles swimming in it. I was told it was a leftover and had been there since 1987 when our "head renter" had moved in. Possibly older than 11 years. There was a bong shaped like a peace sign that was also a leftover/hand me down our "head renter" had procured from a previous tenant along with the house and it's stories and it was supposedly an authentic 60's relic. It was a drug party house for years and that explained why out of nowhere some derilict would show up knocking at the door.

The house collected stories until recently when it was renovated and sold. I drove past the place a few weeks ago en route and saw pretty little flowers in the front yard, a porch void of old sofas and junk, and through the front picture window I could see, for an instant, that it was a family home, clean,warm, nice paint, kids.
It was nice to know it had, hopefully, found a forever owner and would never again be trashed. It even seem to have shed it's icky past completely. It was not one of my favorite places to live in at all. In fact, I hated that rental and I wasn't fond of all the roommates or that entire situation. It is a good thing when a house can finally shut up about it's past and start over.

Lost Mexican Music

Last year I went searching for Mexican groups from the 50's-70's online and came upon a few pretty cool websites with the info I needed. Mexican music from this time is pretty awesome but until Nacho Libre's Mister Loco-unknown. Look here
And just throwing this one in:
Los Rockin Devil's From the 50's and 60's.

A few years ago I was tres into a documentary on a few old Mexican-American groups in Texas and California like Rene y Rene...there is a lot out there that should be uncovered and put out again. The Mexican Psychedelic compilation has been out for some time but there is so much more.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

YES!

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Back in 2003 my boss suggested I read Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison. It has been the best book I have ever read on Italy and I still miss it. I didn't know that she did another book two years later:The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands and YAY! I am totally checking that one out. July of 2003 was all about climbing on the bus to read Italian Days and I couldn't wait. A lot has changed in three years but I still like to read about Italy.

Note: My two favorite female writers do not like each other: Harrison hates Didion! I love both though I will never read Didion's last book on her husband and daughter dying. To some extent, they both have a similar style, to some extent.

Disclaimer: This gets real mushy so skip it!

In state jobs you have 90 days to prove your aptitude for the job.

Back in the Summer of 2001 I met an interesting guy in the vintage store I worked at. A few years later, after just casual hellos around town, we found ourselves on a bus headed in the same direction. We had a great conversation in only fifteen minutes and everything clicked. Best friends ever since.

I never thought I'd meet a guy who liked almost everything I liked or even came close to it but I lucked out because I met someone who not only loves what I love but takes it all to the next level. They say opposites attract but that has never been true in my case. My personality doesn't call out for a complete opposite, not in a relationship. Friends, oh sure, they are all opposites and all great friends.

So just when I thought I was out of Beat writings or 60's music or had seen all the cool movies along came Bill. Just when I thought I'd never find someone to watch a beach movie with or someone who likes both, the Mod and the Rocker, and Roxy Music and the Sex Pistols and Jazz and Tropicalia too, or would love the Summer Paramount movie series (and actually attend) or knew about AIP films....there's Wm. He's a genuine person with an eclectic mix of interests, trivia, knowledge and experiences and it makes for cool times. Uber talented, intelligent and has real opinions and a fresh point of view on things-Wm. Lots to talk about-Wm. Someone else who like Rocky and Bullwinkle as much as I do-Wm.

Into my life came new appreciations for MF Doom, The Superfriends, donuts, lazy Saturdays, Spring of 1971, photo-me booths and smooth vocals with an intricately strummed guitar, to name a few. Happy 90 Days!

Naturally Gracefully Macho

Neal Cassidy-Saw footage on youtube and wowsers. It was taken down and there isn't any other footage that I can find online. Trust me.

Minutiae

1.*Thank God* for *Claude* this week!* For some reason this week seemed uber long despite the 4th off.

2. The Drag needs life. They should bring a Whole Foods "satellite" store and Book People along with an Alamo theatre to the Drag. These are all local businesses that have made enough money to afford rent on Guadalupe. Howaboutit guys?

3. Vogue, Butterick or McCall's needs to present the Audrey Hepburn Pattern Collection and feature the dresses she wore in her films. The cute jumper in Sabrina should be one of them, The little black dress she wore later in that film as well, her cute little capri and shirt set when she played Ariane Chavasse in Love in the Afternoon, the pants from Wait Until Dark, The skirt from Roman Holiday, outfits from Breakfast at Tiffany's and so on!!!!!!!!!!!! Sew on? But really, slim, cigarette,capri pants from Funny Face,gorgeous suit sets from Charade in tweeds and wools, those coats!

4. How to Get the Guy, saw two episodes and, boring, boring, boring. How to Drop the Wrong Guy would be more useful. Maybe a reality show along the lines of teaching women how to spot a loser a mile away (or recognize the loser they may be with) and how to go about dropping him and finding the right guy. That way the girls wouldn't have to drop them after leading them on for several days...they are pretty harsh. This show is all one sided about finding romance or something...can't really tell. Reminds me of that movie I saw only once, Looking for Mr Goodbar, ick! Poor Diane Keaton, that's a girl who needed to learn what a bad guy looks like. It was based on a novel that was based on a true story. Yeah. I know...chilling.

5. Looking forward to the game on Sunday! Forza, squadra azzurra
Forza Azzurri
Forza Italia
Forza Totti ecc...where's the limoncello!
OOOH reminds me, we checked out Mandola's and YUMMY! I highly recommend the prosciutto and arugula pizza and the gelato choices are amazing!

6. Interests du jour:
*Cookbooks (again, cycles through) I love to read cookbooks (use them as well)
*In search of the perfect vintage jumper dress pattern (ongoing since high school really but they will finally be in and I won't be the only one looking like a Mennonite this season).
*My One Tough Monkey logo is exciting,...needs cleanup and then to the rubber stamp makers.
*Populuxe
*Spring of 1971
*Whassup Rockers!

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

So we got the Lancelot Link DVD set because who doesn't love a chimp all dressed up solving crimes?! Marta Hairi's voice is pretty funny. The best part about this DVD is the Evolution Revolution all monkey band!
Read more about Lancelot Link here.

Arch Hall Jr-I'm a fan

Pictured on the right

I'm a new fan to the Arch Hall Jr films. He was not ugly, and never a bad actor in my book. His acting style is appealing to me because it was natural and he played likable teens when he was a teen himself. I need also add that he was a good musician with a nice voice, a multi-talented guy (auteur as well).
Read more about Arch Hall Jr. here. Ga'head, open your mind up to the talent of the 60's B-Movie actors and do so without the kitsch and annoyance of some lame brained MST type who isn't at all funny. I hated that tv show. I often liked the films and found them charming and appealing and if there were kitschy and funny moments I can make my own jokes, thank you very much, with my own friends, thank you very much. I would go out and rent the films when I could find them and re-watch them without the ignorant, snarky remarks. But it was MST300k that brought EEGAH back...Watch the film without the puppets.
This is a cute website
BTW: Some cool person added the entire movie The Choppers (Arch Hall film) to You Tube:

July 4th!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I-TA-LI-A
They won, they won the semi-final only but still! However. I have to admit, it was tres sad to see the camera pan to the Germans because they looked so sad :< Then again, I did shed tears in 1990 when Germany beat Italy. Now if they can just beat France. So my 4th has been pretty great!

We went on a donut run, saw some fireworks and watched a beach movie. I have been tres productive this weekend: coming soon is The Carolina purse (I hope) it is nearly done. Stocked The Nez and have a logo on it's way!

Note to Sparky Marcus: You ROCK! Thanks.

Beach Movies Rule

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

France 1
Brazil 0
My only team left is Italy
OLE OLE OLE OLE ELO ELO
OLE OLE OLE OLE ELO ELO