more Lost World pics

Lost World, Scotts Valley, CA

Here's a pic from 1964 or so, at "Lost World" or "Trees of Mystery" that was located in Scotts Valley, CA, near Santa Cruz. We used to go there a lot as kids because it was near the post office and my aunt lived near there -- and we lived with her when my mom was going to school. it was a fun place. it's no longer there - google it and you'll find some articles about the family that created it. some of the trees are in Gilroy now. i sure do miss it - it would've been a great place to take the kids!

craft show results

well, we didn't do as expected, but good enough. we only made half as much as we did last year, but enough to cover the booth fee - which we didn't have to pay anyways. we did sell some items of auntie mary's and auntie lillian's, so that was good! did some networking - met some crafters who want to sign-up for the craft faire i'm in charge of this December. i hope all goes well!

Stressed!

well, the week didn't start off good, what with auntie lillian falling and scaring the you-know-what out of us, and then uncle albert falling too! then had to do fanhs stuff and get tooth work done, then set up for our craft show -- all today! - that last part.

tomorrow's an early day, as we have to take the van in for a check-up and do the craft show. i sure do hope we sell a lot of stuff, as we didn't do at the last sale. here's a little bit of what i make for the sale.

Melancholy day

went through Joy's clothes today, mama kept a bunch and we'll take some to prunedale, the rest will go to PI or Joyce. albert talked about how he met joy and showed us some photos he found - some from joy's family (old photos of her kids as babies) and some from their recent trip to London, Russia, etc. i think he's alone too much, too much to think and wallow. at least we'll be in prunedale for a few days, that will keep him busy.

busy day

today i switched the sheets on my bed to flannel, then washed 3 loads of laundry and folded them, went to officemax to have fanhs stuff done, washed dishes, made 12 more pairs of guitar pick earrings, baked a chocolate cake, ate leftover pizza, and played around on the computer. phew!

watched Pushing Daisies, Mythbusters, and debating whether or not to watch Grindhouse on OnDemand - it's over 3hrs long and it's nearly 10PM right now! oh well, we shall see.

Angel pin

here's the angel pins that i made - what ya think?

What is this??

Here's an item that I found a while back in a thrift shop - i didn't know what it was, but i thought it looked neat - very smooth and makes a nice noise when you clink the tines (?) together. So far, no one in the family knows what it is. then, get this, I found the same exact thing, at the same thrift shop - five years later! so now i've got two of them!

Genealogy names

I better put this in also -- (except I'll spell it correctly!) ;-)

Here's our family surnames.....
Juanitas, Yongque, Ybera -- Philippines
Peres, Esteban, Barrado, Rodriguez -- Spain
Torres, Masciotti-- Peru

Pai-Gow

Went to Jackson today (Sunday) with mama and James, and he taught me how to play pai-gow poker - it was a lot of fun! we didn't do so bad today - i won, but mama kept giving it back! james treated us to dinner with his comp points. yummy sandwiches.

went to pick up our craft stuff earlier, and we didn't do gang-busters, but enough to pay the booth fee - sold Lillian's quilt top! didn't sell too much more though. next show is in two weeks, hopefully, we'll do better.

mama was so cold this morning, she turned on the furnace! so i took my fan out of the window - i guess it's definitely not summer anymore!

watching the World's Longest Yard Sale on hgtv, interesting.

took my niacin pills and now i'm having hot flashes!

this week i'll have to do a lot of stuff for fanhs and the nurses - no rest for the weary!

lost out on my daily chances for gaia today - got home too late!

gas is $3.35 here - nice!

got CW#12! great story! i like the Dr's background story, interesting - but i'd sure like to see what's under the mask!

i guess that's it for tonight - since it's getting late.

blogs i visit....from time to time

http://pepsinarcolepsy.livejournal.com/ - Laura's
http://utopiarose.blogspot.com/ - Lisa's
http://madcutlass.blogspot.com/ - Nichole's

and i'm on facebook and gaia-online, from time to time

First Post....hmmm

What should I write about on this blog? Well, since it's titled Mish-mash, here goes..... right now, I'm watching my favorite John Wayne movie, "McClintock" on PBS.

I made some more guitar-pick earrings today, going to sell them for $3.99 at Robin's place, plus I made some angel pins, which I'll sell for $1.50 at our next craft show in two weeks.

Went to the new Michael's store here, it's not laid out very well, no good flow to the aisles. And, for being open only a week, its bathroom was very dirty!

Strother Martin sure does make a good whiny-snot-nosed-yellow-bellied Indian agent. A big difference from Cool Hand Luke!

Well, that's it for today. my favorite part of the movie is coming up - the big mud pit to-do!

"People, people, people!"