Archive for the ‘General’ Category

bellydancer

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by mountain girl  |  1 Comment »

   I forgot to mention this cute little bellydancer at Crystal’s party…   A real bellydancer put this skirt on her…   …and Zia was all too happy to give it a whirl!   Ooops! Hold that thing down!    Volleyball, anybody?



yellow bowl

Posted on August 25th, 2009 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on yellow bowl

  Have I ever mentioned how much I love yellow? This bowl makes me really happy just to look at it! I made this bowl for Cindy a month or so ago. As usual, I forgot to take pictures of it before I gave it to her, so I had to wait till I was at […]

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an unschooler’s defense

Posted on August 17th, 2009 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on an unschooler’s defense

Today is rainy, rainy, rainy. No good pics to post, but in my brief online perusal this morning, I came across an interesting post you might like to read. It’s written by Idzie, a college age girl who was un-schooled since kindergarten. Unschooling is a type of homeschooling, but more radical. You don’t necessarily work […]

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fresh and local

Posted on August 15th, 2009 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on fresh and local

This is our local city market. It’s kind of an interesting place, and it seems that you can find people from every tongue, tribe and nation shopping here. Locally grown hot peppers. The market is a great venue for local artists and musicians. Locally sqeezed lemonade. It costs $2 a glass. Hmmm…remember when lemonade was 10 cents? Guess […]

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blue-ful toes and a bag

Posted on August 14th, 2009 by mountain girl  |  5 Comments »

  There’s nothing quite like painting a tiny set of virgin toenails for the very first time. Zia said they look “Blue-ful”. It took me a minute to realize she meant beautiful, but it is a very fitting term. Blue is really such a nice color, especially this cornflower blue. I really need to paint a room this […]