Status update

Oh my, it's been a while since there's been an update. To quote one of my favorite songs,* it seems I've spent most of the year in a plane going up and down (mostly for work), while continually working and thinking about the well project. Thank you to everyone (friends, family, and strangers) who continue to show support and interest in CFAC.

Lots of activities happening now, in the near future, and ongoing.

Now: Cake for a Cause. Try your luck at winning, hands down, the best cake from the best baker in the state of Oregon. Those of you who have had her cakes know what I am talking about! Call Georganne at 541-479-4559 if you want to buy a ticket.

Near Future: One of my dearest and most creative friends will open her Lake Oswego home for a children's holiday party Sunday, December 13th from 1-5 pm to benefit CFAC. Treats and crafts will be provided. Please email me at alampert712@gmail.com for information. Oh, and I'm going to have one at my house too. I will do pretty much exactly what she does......why reinvent the wheel? The date and time at my home TBD.

Ongoing: Headbands, notecards, and art sale. I'll get the links and photos for those up soon. But right now, I have to do my other job and get daughter to sleep.

*Does anyone out there know Tracyanne Campbell from Camera Obscura? Goodness, it would be more than I could say to get her to do some kind of benefit. Oh, I know, right, yeah, but if you're going to dream.....dream big!

Sometimes you have to work with what you've got.

I took this pic when I was a little* lost and frustrated. I saw this post box and it made me giggle. Someone has a good sense of humor! (*impossible to get completely, utterly lost in Paris).

The week before Halloween I wandered around and got lost a lot (always thinking, "I am sharpening my map reading skills (!)" but really just walking in circles) among the streets of Paris, knowing full well that when I returned, I would have a Halloween costume to assemble wiki-wiki. Daughter wanted to be a businessman so I left thinking, "CAKE. WALK. Once I get home, we'll just dip into the closest goodwill and pick up a boy's suit." Ummm, errrr, not that easy (why weren't legions of suits on racks just waiting for us to scoop them up?) Lucky for me, she changed her mind and wanted to be a pirate. Hey, that's a businessman of the sea. Right?

With 3 days to get it done, I transformed into domestic goddess mode** (absolutely no disrespect to Nigella). We looked through her closet to find piratey-like things, and then picked up the rest at the fabric store. We used what she already had and altered sewing patterns I had to make her shirt and accessories. Smug satisfaction. Not to mention her favorite costume so far.

Ooh, and aren't all of you being excellent moms by eating your kid's (s') candy because we know candy is bad for children?

**Going to carry on in the spirit! Tomorrow, I'll pull on my wellies and muck about in the in the garden. Maybe even bake or cook a little something. This year I'm gonna glitter the gourds! But, best of all, it's time to start the covet list for Christmas!!!!!! You all know how lovely and fun that is.

Lucky or lovely?

I think it's both. How unlikely is this?*

Ummm, since I just received feedback on how it is hard to tell what it is...it's a leaf stuck on my Mercedes emblem.

Unexpected Paris

Before I left for Paris, I took a peek at my previous Paris photos. For this trip, I tried to find photos that are a little unexpected. Let's see how I did: (crud:link AGAIN)

Yup, that's a real, live sea gull on top of a statue in the Luxembourg Gardens. Since the French are so liberal, I thought it OK to post the back side of this famous (but I don't know who it is) statue.

Vogue magazine covers on the Champs Elysees (if I knew how to get the french accents on my e's I would)
The Tuileries. Not a tree out of place. Every trip here, I wonder if someone comes out at night or in the very early morning to make sure everything is just perfect. I have never seen anyone trimming them.

My mom and me in the Jardin de Tuileries. There were all of these strange Automne statues in the garden. They were quite the contrast to the formal statues.

The Georges Pompidou Centre. It looks like a human habitrail to me. It caused quite the stir when it was built!

That's all for now. Bonne Nuit.