Leading into Fall it’s always time for me to nest and get my craft on. Holiday projects, house sprucing up, re-styling opportunities and getting around to projects I’ve been meaning to do. All the outcome will be over on LovelyLula.
One project I need to get on is recovering pillows and creating new pillows for both indoor and outdoor seating areas. I am inspired by Martha Stewart’s dyed drop cloth pillows. Hmmmmm . . . . so many ideas.
I represented the creative or the “A” in STEAM at the APGA 2013 Conference: Garden Evolution held in Phoenix. With my education colleagues from the Desert Botanical Garden. APGA is the American Public Garden Association. We presented to a packed house on how to use STEM in a garden education program and more specifically how to add the Arts right in the middle to create a more well rounded offing to students during tours. We avoid the typical power point and instead I created ‘slides’ to serve as a set design for us to speak in front. This allowed the focus to be on our words and the images from nature and industrial, recycled bits and pieces as inspiration only; not more words of information on the screen. The talk was very successful with a lot of interest nationally. Here are the slide images with the full power point downloadable at the bottom.
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Finally getting around to posted which Vera Scarf I selected from this Summers Collection for Target. I stood there for a very long time trying to make a decision. I own several vintage Vera scarves but they are all the short neck kerchief style so I don’t wear then very often. These new ones are the long fabulous style that you can wear year round, we’ll in sunny Phoenix anyway. I really do love everything Vera. So here is my selection, chosen because Orange is my favorite color, I wear a lot in the citrus family and I am a big fan of butterflies:
I don’t own this scarf but love it so much I had to post it since it is summer time, grilling season!
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