Author: Becky

30 Days of Creativity: Day 2

Today’s effort for 30 Days of Creativity may seem strange to people, but it has the unqualified approval of four three of The Compound dogs. As those of you who’ve read Tim’s or my LJ for any length of time know, we feed our dogs raw diet. To give them the kind of nutrients their wild ancestors would have gotten by eating prey (and their prey’s stomach contents), I add vegetables to the raw meat, bones, and organs they eat. The reason this process is “creative” will be explained below. I promise there are no gross photos behind the cut–unless vegetables frighten you.

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30 Days of Creativity: Day 1

My blog friend Shawn Lea made me aware Tuesday of an online activity called 30 Days of Creativity. In essence, every day of June, participants will be creating something, anything–to exercise the muscle that is the brain, then Tweeting/blogging/Facebooking their creations.

I have a somewhat challenging schedule this month, but I figured, Why not?

So on the first day of June, I used fabric sent by Marika, and ribbon from Tim’s birthday present from Laura C, and dressed Laura Lee (who’s named for Laura D, by the way–confused?) in a sundress that I whipped up this evening.

Welcome to a stylish beginning of what I suspect will be a long, hot summer!

Backdrop is part of a painting in progress by Timothy J. Lambert. Thanks Tim, Laura C, Marika, and Shawn for the inspiration.

All My Dolls

Thanks to Laurie S and her desire to clean out her garage, I’m now the proud possessor of two of Mattel’s Erica Kane dolls. I’ve said it to some of you All My Children fans before, but back in the dark ages when it was a brand new soap and everyone was all about mousy, goody two shoes Tara Martin, my mother watched Susan Lucci and said, “Forget Tara. Erica’s going to be the star of this show.”

She’s certainly been the reigning queen of daytime–and just yesterday, Tim directed me to two episodes of the sitcom Hope & Faith in which Susan Lucci put in a hilarious guest appearance as a scheming soap diva.

From the back of the doll’s box: Erica Kane, played by the beautiful and talented Susan Lucci, is a character many viewers aspire to be. So maybe it’s the approximately twelve-times-married Erica who’s to blame for today’s news about the Gores’ divorce–although Tipper looks a lot more like Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless.

Thanks, Laurie! I’ll have Erica dressed by Becks and up to no good soon!

Memorial Day

My father and mother are buried in a military cemetery in North Alabama. I’d go there today if I could. Since I’m eight hundred miles away, I went to Houston National Cemetery. It was touching to see how many other people had the same idea–entire families looking at names on stones, placing flowers and flags, probably most of them on the graves of strangers.

There’s something particularly sobering about seeing the letters KIA on the stone of a young person whose tour of duty lists Iraq.

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