Studio Life

When our 16-year old started marching out of the house with this, we just had to take a picture because it was so pretty: a plastic box full of ammunition for a water balloon fight on a hot summer day. (Still summer here!) When it’s 103 degrees outside, this can also be called air-conditioning!

When we went to Fisherman’s Wharf to be tourists with about 5,000 other people with the same idea … we found a great carousel.  And our two sixteen-year-olds couldn’t wait to have a brush with childhood, followed by some cotton candy of course! (below: another carousel freshly painted in the studio a few years ago for a baby book collection)

If you go to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, you just have to go see the sea lions on Pier 39 because that is what you do. Is it crowded?  Yes.  Is it smelly?  Yes.  Is it mesmerizing?  Yes, yes. We have been to see our sea lion friends three different times.  And, each time we go, we think we

It was such a treat to find this hand-quilted Noah’s Ark Two-of-a-Kind baby blanket on Etsy today at Nana McQuilts.  At the studio, we become so attached to Cathy’s actual illustrations – the two-dimensional art on paper – that it’s always a treat to find these same characters as toys, on ceramics, or in this case, in 100% cotton. While

If you want to feel happy, just head to the Farmer’s Market at the Ferry Building.  You will be surrounded by beautiful fresh produce and heavenly scents.  It’s not a frenetic-I-need-to-procure-now kind of market, but rather a take-your-time-to-touch-smell-and-taste kind of market. Lots of tasting! Let’s just start with tomatoes, because Ellen and I LOVE tomatoes.  When I took French in