theodora allen

lovely photos

look at them here

church on the west side

heritage square
i know you have all seen it off the 110
and wondered what it was

on daly street
fancy DWP

lovely look book from lyell

check out the backstage photos too

i am too busy embroidering things for work to blog properly this weekend
but i do have some new glasses that are very owly and then beth gave me this lovely tea towel from tortoise which reminded me of the glasses

and finally my bathroom is almost finished and i am putting little things in the niches
i will post more later

victims of the embossing kit

future victims of the new embossing kit

lovely drawings

when i go home to england i usually pick up one or two things from my childhood that mean a lot to me
this book i had as a child and it had my name and address and school year and class.
that was 2b, which means i was probably 6 or 7
i love the drawings inside, especially the astronaut with his sunglasses on

the artist is talivaldis stubis (can that be a real name??) from 1972

book project

the book project is almost finished
now i just have to label them all - yikes

i got a letter stamp kit from muji a year ago and went mad with it, making cards, labelling stuff etc
now, there are several wooden items in my house that are worried - look at this amazing letter
embossing kit i found at the flea market

at the long beach flea market today
found a bunch of old keys
and picked out my favourite
not sure what to do with them yet, but will keep you posted

went to delilah bakery in echo park this morning for a chocolate and banana muffin
i would highly recommend it if you want to go into sugar shock for the rest of the day
delicious..and such a sweet place
my friend had a sausage and cheese muffin that she said was amazing
and she's English also so I trust her opinion on sausage

my friend kathy told me about air plants
check out her website

kathleen ferguson landscapes

so we went to look at some
they are lovely
you can hang them by wire or hot glue them to stuff and spritz them with water every day

here's where we went

rainforest flora



and below they are in my garden
on the apricot tree

pasadena avenue