margaritas!

with the warm weather 

i have margaritas on my mind!

premixed margaritas are so very fattening,

full of sugar...

this is the recipe i like to use...

2 oz tequila (blanco)
1 oz fresh lime juice
½ tsp fructose or sugar

1 oz triple sec

(not as strong as grand marnier but much prettier in the glass)

shake vigorously

and pour over rocks

with a salted rim...

now for the rim, 

rub lime juice around the rim

then i like to use gourmet

sea salts like himalayan pink, grey sea salt, 

fleur de sel or bolivian rose salt. 

for something really different try finding vanilla fleur de sel 

or bali coconut and lime smoked sea salt.

these salts look so pretty on the rim 

and taste great, especially when mixed

with a touch of sugar...

Cheers everybody!

 today is friday lets all go have a margarita!!

happy weekend!

peace...

happy hump day...

my sweet mother...

happy mothers day...

one of the most important days of the year....

I would like to think we don't need a specific day to

remember or celebrate our mothers, but we do.

it is too easy to take the most wonderful

things in life for granted...

how can we forget the way our mothers smell?

how only they can soothe our pain....

whether it be a bruised knee or a broken heart....

how can we ever be cross with our mothers?

how can they give to us so completely?

and how can we expect them to 

be more than anyone else can be?

well my mother....

i am so thankful for...

she lost her mother when she was 17 years old

and i can't imagine growing up without 

my mom and my best friend...

my mother is quirky, and hysterical...

she is a friend, and honest...

she also has one of the biggest hearts

i know....

 this is where my mom took my sister

and i on a trip through tahati.... one of the most special

weeks of my life.

mom is not afraid of anything

and will always try something once!

i remember when we were in texas she was the only one 

to eat a fried cow ball...

(testicle)

her nick name is sweet pea...

me and mom...

mom i love you and thank you...

my small garden...

today i cleared a small space in the front

of my house to plant sunflowers...

weeding a garden is quite addictive

and wow who knew all of the

random roots!

see the small

 cleared spot?

it is going to look so cute with

 sunflowers growing in it!

this is my little wire ladybug

to keep the yardman

out of my garden...

 i have started planting seeds and watching them grow...

it is really fun to watch the progress...

this is my purple hyacinth vine...

 my tomato plant...

 oregano...

rosemary...

lavender...

and basil...

more on painted walls...

still dreaming of hand painted walls...

Richard Wright’s  beautiful work borders

 between installation art, painting, and wallpaper....  

His style is sometimes subtle yet bold...
 and sometimes bold yet subtle...
 but always intriguing...  

a stairwell project...

done in acrylic...

see more of Wright's work here...

thinking about wall candy....

i am dying to change the walls in my front hall....

and once a month while getting my hair done

i look at beautiful stenciled walls...

i love the idea of patterned walls

 hand painted walls....

i love the idea of wall paper....

hand painted...

 kelly wearstler uses this very unique

hand painted wallpaper

in her malibu beach home...

i have been wanting wallpaper 

somewhere small...

if you remember my 

post on wallpapered stairs...

 today my friend ryland posted on

wallpaper...

she is so talented

take a look....

just too cute.........

i hope everyone has a happy

monday....

this picture just makes me smile...

i hope it makes you too...

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