Vacation is over :(

So sad! I had a great time! Max and I landed in Las Vegas on Wednesday night - very late. We rented a car and a GPS we'll call Maggie. Maggie is a ditz - not nearly as competent as Australian Karen or British Daniel.

Anyway, we crawled into our hotel room, passed out, woke up early, ate breakfast buffet as only Las Vegas can do it, then jumped in the car and relied on Maggie to get us across the Mohave Desert as quickly as possible. We admired the heat, bright sun, and lack of vegetation - so reminiscent of our Arizona days; it's a dry heat.

3.5 hours later, we arrived at Mt. Baldy - one of Max's destinations. Of course we had experiments to conduct: air pressure, altitude, vegetation lines of demarcation, air drag, etc. I, personally, was testing my "winding mountainous road" reflexes; that was interesting. The view from Mt. Baldy was gorgeous of course (except for the brown LA fog hanging over their city at midday).






More coming.....

Meet Jillian!

Here she is! My beautiful brand new niece, Jillian Ivy Russell. She was born last night at 10:02 pm PT. She's 6 lbs, 6 oz, and 19.5 inches long. She is alert, insanely soft, gorgeous and immensely loved :)

Callidora is in Texas!

Callidora's aprons are being sold at The Art Spot in Corsicana, Texas. So all you Texans, get on down there and get'chu one or two! The nice folks at the Art Spot were putting my aprons on display this weekend.

So support The Art Spot and support Callidora!
122 N. Beaton St. @ W. 5th Ave, Corsicana, TX. 75110

Treasury!

I'm on Lamar Lynch's Treasury!

Fall 2008 Collection!

Oooooo! I'm excited! I have the first few items in my Fall Collection up on my website!

You wouldn't believe how long it takes to put a webpage for each new item :( So I will be adding items throughout August. If you love something, get it while you can - these are limited edition items and when they are gone.....

As always, I'm happy to do custom orders using my designs or yours. If you can dream it, I can build it!

A Week in the Local Food Life

Our Dept. of Agriculture here in Virginia is issuing a challenge to residents to try eating foods grown locally for a week. I hope many people take up the challenge and as encouragement, I wanted to post that we always eat local foods from late April to late November. It may seem hard at first, but it's really not. Here in Richmond, we are lucky to have four or five farmer's markets.

You probably know from previous posts that we belong to a CSA (community supported agriculture), so that makes it very easy and cost effective to just go and pick up what we need every week. But while I'm at the market, I also pick up my beef and pork from Faith Farm Foods. Wonderful meats that are pasture-raised, you can't beat the taste and how well it is digested by your system. While purchasing meats from local farmers is not nearly as cost effective as buying from your local supermarket, it is definitely a healthier option that your body gets used to quickly! We have cut down on how much meat we eat on a weekly basis since it is more expensive, but we have easily taken to meals with eggs, beans and veggies for those non-meat days.

If you have trouble finding meat farmers, you can check your local supermarket for Laura's Beef, Coleman Naturals, and Heartland Chicken. Don't be fooled by Tyson's hormone-free labels, the birds are still tough little cage-raised creatures.

So eat up! But eat locally raised!

Where Have I Been?!

I'm so sorry! It has been a crazy week! I got 4 custom orders in this week. I had to register Max for the Fall semester. I'm frantically trying to finish my neice's Welcome Home gift BEFORE she arrives next week. I've been planning my little California/Las Vegas getaway. Trying to finish up the last touches on the Fall Collection.

So the August Newsletter will be out sometime this weekend (I hope!) with the monthly winner. Whew! What a week! If you aren't on the list to receive my monthly newsletter with giveaway and specials, please sign up here quickly - before I send the next one out :)