PAINTING TRIBUTE TO THE KING OF POP, MICHAEL JACKSON

So this is my tribute to The King Of Pop, Michael Jackson. To me he was a sweet kind man who always tried to help others. Besides his music, that is how I will always remember Michael, KIND AND GENEROUS AND ALWAYS TRYING FIND PEACE IN THIS WORLD. I needed to let my soul touch canvas for him, so I searched for a picture that I felt I could try to paint and this is it. So this is what I've been doing these last two days of the month. I wish it could be picture perfect, but my soul entered the canvas for Michael and that was my intent.

Michael, thank you for all the happiness you gave the world. I'm so sorry for all the heartaches you had to go through. May you rest in peace and may your children find peace and happiness in the near future. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED.

Michael Jackson

END OF JUNE and on to the next.

It's time for me to leave soon, (exercise) so I thought I would do a short post on what has been going on and since today is the 30th and the end of the month, lets see what happened this month.

Took lots of zucchini to different peoples, that felt good.

Exercised about 4 times a week.

Then I ate ice cream....hehehehe

Ate very little meat.

Kept yearly doctor appointments, although there is still one more on the 7th of July.

Screen on computer keeps going black.

Straightened out a silly problem...All women should have a separate bank account. Case closed.

Tried signing up for a pottery class but the darn shop burned down. (no one hurt)

Turned off water and PGE on property in San Jose/escrow on rental closed...finally.

Took time to clear my mind, and just tapped into myself.

Paid off last bill. We had one bill, besides all the usual cost of living expenses.

Received packages from very nice blogger friends.

Mailed a couple of packages to blogger friends and met a few new blogger friends.

Checked on renewal class for RE License, expires in May of next year but just thinking ahead.

Tried to limit my time on computer.

Painted Goldy and now working on another painting.

Gardened daily.

Visited mom at least twice a week.

Organized my closet and gave washed clean clothes to Salvation Army and thrift stores.

Made jams with apricots and also plum jams.

Still trying to grocery shop once a month. Doing good so far.

Thought of my dear dad and how he is missed. (Father's Day)

Leisure drives through the country.

Lots of crossword puzzles.

Said prayer's for those people's that we lost this month and counted my blessings.

I said my prayer's daily and thanked the dear lord.



That's all I can think of for now. I just wanted to post something, end of story-end of month type of thing. I am sure there was a lot more and there is still today. Adios for now.

HAVE A GREAT END OF THE MONTH DAY. VIVA LA VIDA!

AFTERTHOUGHT AT 5PM. Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeee, it is FREAKING HOT OVER HERE AND I AM SWEATING MORE THAN WHEN I EXERCISED THIS MORNING. HELP.................

JOE JACKSON AT THE BET AWARDS???

He has a lot of nerve! The BET Awards is dedicating the entire show to Michael Jackson and he is showing up? For what? When asked how he was doing, his reply was that the world had lost the best super star and that it was a big loss. Instead of saying, we've lost our son and we and the world will never be the same. He should be ashamed of himself. Michael never said he forgave his father for all the beatings he got, instead he said he hated his father when he was beating him.

After listening to Michael Jackson on an interview and about all the beatings he received from his "father" and how afraid he was of him, I am totally disgusted at seeing the so called father's face there at the awards. He doesn't belong there. He was interviewed by Don Limon of CNN outside the BET award and he, Joe Jackson was actually trying to promote his new record company. He is not a grieving father in my opinion.

In my thoughts and I'm sure a lot of other people, he didn't deserve Michael.

Forgive and forget? I don't think so.

It Started With: WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR WOODEN BRACELETS?

and look at everything I received from Cathy at http://catboxartstudio.blogspot.com/. Cathy is a very talented artist whose blog I have patronized for a while now and I am always so in awe of her work. I am just so surprised and so darn happy. I loved the bracelets she was working on and wondered where she bought them and this great lady immediately offered them to me. I was totally taken by surprise and look here what she sent to me. Beautiful buttons, postcards, greeting cards, and all with her BEAUTIFUL paintings on them. Not only that, but she sent me the bracelets with two that she had already started on, and I am so thankful and grateful to her for being such a wonderful and nice person. Cathy, I love everything and am so HAPPY to have received a part of your excellent and beautiful work. My photo's do not by a long shot show the talent that you have. This has been a very happy and lucky day for me.
THANK YOU CATHY, I WILL ENJOY THESE GIFTS YOU SENT. AYEEEEEEEEEE!!!! ONE GENEROUS LADY!

OH MY GOODNESS, I FEEL LIKE.....LIKE....

VIVA LA VIDA!!

Gifts From Yaya and Garden Goods

This will be a short post with a few pictures. I hope everyone has been okay and enjoying life.

First of all these are some of our garden goods. It is always so great to pick the fruits of your labor from your home garden. We just could not be without a garden. This is just a little of what we have been harvesting. I have taken shopping bags of zucchini to the seniors at a senior center not too far from here, and they have been overjoyed to receive, and that is what is mostly good about growing our own veggies, as well as eating them. We're getting a great harvest this year. Our tomatoes, chili's, cucumbers are really taking off now. We've had a lot of garlic, onions and I just saw a few egg plants on the vine. Thank the lord for such a great harvest. Lots of zucchini, in fact too much.

Cucumbers are so delicious.

These jar are plums from the plum tree out in back. We didn't get many plums but just enough for a few jars of jam.

Chili's and tomatoes are starting to really take off. I was going to roast these.

And then there are YAYA'S gifts that I received early this week. I just haven't had time to post about them because being out of town on and off has taken our time. Finally though, escrow has closed and hopefully we can continue with our daily "stuff."

Yaya and I has spoke of sending each other some of our garden seeds and she really sent me a lot of different seed as you can see. They are neatly packaged with the names. I'll hold off on planting them till next April/Spring because if I try to grow them now it may be too late and I will lose some. Is this not cool! She also sent me a huge bar of Mexican soap. How neat! We had discussed this soap with another blogger and how good it is supposed to be.

It's called ZOTE

and the biggest surprise was that she included a BEAUTIFUL handmade apron that I sure will wear. Of course my camera shots don't give it justice. Yaya, you did a really good job on this apron and I still say, open your ETSY, you'll do really good. Thanks so much for all the hard work you put into this wonderful apron.

This is a beautiful flowered pattern and I love the colors.

So there you have it friends. I'm trying to catch up on things and hopefully I can get started painting again. I haven't been able to paint anything because of various interruptions. Have a great weekend and live for the moment, life is too short. Viva La Vida! Thanks again YAYA!!

Sadness

It's a sad thing. Life, death, love - Farrah, Michael rest in peace

Award from Manola

I wanted to thank Manola from : http://girasolipunto.blogspot.com/ who has kindly given me this "One Lovely Blog Award."

I think that was very nice of her and I do accept it wholeheartedly. That's one of things that I like about blogging, the awards are great. Very cool. The problem is that I have to select 15 peoples to give the award to and most of the people whose blog I patronize don't accept awards anymore. I will try though.

YAYA from http://chroniclesofyaya.blogspot.com/

Darlene from : http://darlenepringle.blogspot.com/

Dida from: http://didazart.blogspot.com/

DivaMom from: http://thedivasblessedlife.blogspot.com/

Esteemarlu from: http://quilting-mania.blogspot.com/

MexicoBob from: http://mexicobob.blogspot.com

So I'll start with these 6 and see if they will accept this beautiful award. All you have to do is copy the picture and save it to your pictures, then add it to your side bar, and if you wish you can also give the award out. In the meantime I will post this award to my side bar of awesome awards and thank you much Manola. Hip Hip Hooray!

APRON GIVEAWAY AT TOMATOSOUPCAKE BLOG

Quick post. Yaya had a link on an APRON GIVEAWAY and for those who wear aprons this one is great. I stopped by there and really liked Diane's blog. I need to go back and read her posts. She seems like a very busy woman with 5 children and a home schooler at that, as well as a seamstress. It was my first time at her blog so I will go back. Thanks Yaya for the link. If you get a chance stop by Diane's blog and enter the giveaway. Take care.

http://tomatosoupcake.blogspot.com/

THANK YOU YAYA!!

My friend YAYA surprised me with a package today and I am going to post on it very soon. But I just wanted to shout out to YAYA, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I truly appreciate it.
She sent me different packs of SEEDS from her garden, a very wonderful type of SOAP, (JAVON), a homemade APRON that she did with her own hands....AYYYYYEEEEEEEEEE! HOW EXCITING. She even wrote a letter, like in the old days when email wasn't around. I am so appreciative and I will take pictures and post this week. I feel so much better now.

THANK YOU YAYA VERY MUCH AND I WILL SEND YOU THE SEEDS I PROMISED VERY SOON.

I have to go now because duties call but I did come to one decision that I actually have always felt....and that is that every woman should have her own account under her name. Simple as that, case closed.

THANKS YAYA AGAIN.

This Too Shall Pass

So everything is not A BED OF ROSES and on my 400th post at that!

I wasn't going to post this but what the heck. Everyone has their ups and their downs, so let it all hang out.....................................Yesterday.........................


HIM coming in from getting the mail after a long day at work looking at what came……………….

HIM: I didn’t know you had a bank account in only your name.

HER: I think that it’s the property account for San Jose.

HIM: Just in your name?

HER: Yeah, why?

HIM: Why is it your name alone?

HER: Uh, cause I opened it that way?

HIM: Well how many accounts do we have?

HER: Well, we have the regular checking, the savings, and the property account.

HIM: So all the accounts are under both our names except for the property account? Why?

HER: I think I opened it that way almost 20 years ago when we moved to Modesto and I rented the house out in San Jose. That’s why.

HIM: So you opened it in your name only?

HER: So what’s wrong with that? I’m the one who handles the property account and I wanted to keep it separate from the other accounts.

HIM: I can’t believe this, I thought we had everything together?

HER: Uh….we do, don’t we? I mean what’s the big deal. I have other accounts in the credit union under my name alone that I used when I was doing real estate, you never said anything about that.

HIM: Yeah but this is for the house in San Jose and I don’t have access to that account? What if something happens? How will I have access to the account?

HER: It has been this way since we moved here. I’ve made the payments for the house when the rent was mailed and taken care of whatever costs with that account and you question it now, when the house has now sold? The only monies in there were for the house payment and petty cash. Once it closes escrow, I’ll cancel the account, close it out. What’s the problem?

HIM: I can’t believe it! I thought everything was in both our names.

HER: I have a right to have accounts in my OWN name. I bought the house in San Jose so I have a right to have the account under just my name. You were at work when I opened the account so that's one reason your name is not there, you are the beneficiary.

On and on and on and when will it end. So you thought I didn’t have any problems at all did you? Well a night has passed and the silent treatment has begun and what the heck did I do wrong.
I wonder what this means, do you have any idea? Could it be greediness kicking in? Not on my part, that’s for sure.

It too shall pass, so I worry not. What will be, will be. I'm actually smiling right now because it's rather silly to be upset about something that I think is so trivial. If I turned the tables I would probably have told him, well you could have let me know that the account was only in your name. At least that way I would have been aware of it. Actually I did say that to him, but by now he was seething with what looked like greed to me. I can't believe that after 27 years I see greed in this man. How UNFASHIONABLE of him. lol.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DAD

I just wanted to say to my DAD, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY AND I LOVE YOU.

I've Made My Appointment, Have You?

It's that time of year again, blood tests, annual check-up, mammography and the whole kit and kaboodle. I have to though in order to maintain my well being. I hope you too are making your annual "everything" so that you will continue the year stress free. My appointment for a mammo has been scheduled for July 8 and I'm done with the annual checkup and blood tests. If you haven't scheduled anything yet, do so. I want to continue to share blogging stories with you.

I've been very busy and soon I will be able to get back to my daily posts. For now though, enjoy yourself and take care of business. Viva La Vida and yes, life is great!

Her name is GOLDY-why? She has a gold tooth

I decided to change her a little and added a gold tooth and black top. I thought I could do more with it but I'm bad on details. So this is Goldy who is still very happy in life.

Goldy isn't quite what I wanted her to be but she looks like a woman of substance.

A smile increase your face value.

My eyes still have their blue of the sea.


I wanted a gold tooth, so I got one.

And here I am. As you can see I too have begun the aging process. The way I see it, I don't count my years, I just enjoy them.

It's been hectic lately. Doctor's appts., 1 1/2 drive every other day or so to San Jose and other things that keep getting in the way of everyday life. I hope life is treating everyone good.

VIVA LA VIDA!

Working on an unfinished previous painting

This was painted many years ago on craft paper. I cut it out and NEVER FINISHED IT, so today I started painting it on canvas.

She looks happy even though she has aged. To her age is but a number. She doesn't see each day as getting closer to the end, instead she sees each day as a new beginning.

So as I paint this lady who will have WRINKLES galore , I will think of myself and remember that I too will soon have a face filled with the lessons of life. Each line in the face will have it's own meaning. Sorrow, tears, happiness, intense joy, love, laughter, mixed emotions that will etch the lines deeper but will leave no indication of bitterness.

This is as far as I've gotten with this painting on canvas. Her hair needs more fullness, the face needs filling in, she needs her pearl necklace to show us that she too is long lasting like a pearl. Have a great day tomorrow. Viva La Vida!

Janis-A Woman Left Lonely

Everything is out of order in these pix. Time is of the essensce, don't you think?

Things that I have been doing this month and not necessarily in that order. Sorry about the pictures being so DISORGANIZED but right now I am just so dawg gone beeeeeeesy. lol. Hope you all are okay and that the world is spinning righteously for you. I'm good! Just a bit of nothing to keep my blog going.

Organizing
Gardening
Painting
Reading (fun things)
Sewing
Exercising
Planning meals, Including more veggies
Cutting back on sugar
Visiting Mom as often as possible. (call her every day)
Yearly Drs. Appt.
Make appt. for m/gram
Taking a drive down 108 (scenery)
Waiting an an escrow to close
3 to 5 crossword puzzles a day (keeps my mind active)
Reading Zarela's Cookbook (lots of home stories in her cookbook)
Trying to learn to take better pictures

new project-painting on an old music book. Just started this project.

Latest painting.

CHORIZO'S BEAUTIFUL EYE AND NOSE