Monday, March 19, 2012

Bouquets to Art

Nancy and I went to San Francisco on Thursday to see the de Young Museum "Bouquets to Art" exhibit.

We had a lovely lunch at the museum cafe.

Coolest mobiles.

Views of the museum.




And here we go - some of the exhibits. These are flower arrangements made to represent art.
If you look close you can see me being a creeper in my own picture :-)

She is made of glass. Two artists/florists entered pieces to represent this small statue.
So different...
...from each other.

And this I believe is my favorite. She is also made of glass.

And she is made of nails and plants.
















I believe this is my favorite.


Clever decor by the cafe door.



This I believe is my favorite.


The flowers are gardenias - it smelled divine.









And this I believe is my favorite.












The information tag for these flowers match the flowers to the girl with apple but I think they three go perfect with the three girls in the two paintings so I took them together.


Three faces of George.




















This is one of Nancy's favorites. The picture of the painting is not great but it is kind of a hazy picture..

See the "milk" coming out of the milk bottle?








And this I think is my favorite.

This is not a favorite of Nancy and I think it so funky goofy it is awesome :-)





This is a favorite of Nancy (and I like it too).

Cool how a lace pattern is printed on the leaves.





And this...

...inspired this



And this I think is my favorite.


Was a very fun outing.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Answer to "The what am I doing?" question

Becky and Julie are right - it is about costumes for Fiddler on the Roof and it does involve a banshie - a jewish banshie if there is such a thing.

I was measuring out cheesecloth - 42 pieces at 6 foot lengths. All of the cast will drape the cheesecloth over themselves to appear ghost like. The scene is Tevye's Dream: It has already been arranged that his oldest daughter will marry the rich butcher but she is really in love with the poor tailor. She tells her father Tevye her true feelings. Tevye is sympathetic to her and has to figure away to convince his wife that the arranged marriage must not happen and that their daughter must marry the tailor. Tevye pretends to have a dream...



The opening night at Leigh High School is tonight. Claire is so tired from rehearsals I'm not sure she has the energy to be excited. But I bet 5 seconds to curtain call she'll have all the energy and excitement rushing through her she can bear. We are excited to see the play!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

O-R-E-O


Happy 100th Birthday Oreo!
We love you!


Monday, March 5, 2012

What am I doing?

Can you guess what I'm doing?
Has to do with the play "Fiddler on the Roof"