Art in Red Wagons on Victoria

On one rainy day last week when I was in  Victoria, two of my blogger friends, Kim and Karen, came to visit me, and we had a wonderful lunch in a local tavern and talked and talked and talked for hours and hours until they said their good-byes and left me, grateful again, for this strange and wonderful community.

Kim of Art in Red Wagons is an artist whose work is difficult to describe. She takes materials from the natural world and seemingly by magic turns them into new and different things of great beauty. She gave me these three little pieces of sea-glass on which she had transferred photos that I had taken and posted on the blog. Here is the first:

And this:

And this:

Thank you, Kim -- I will hold and treasure them as talismans for a long time.

Team Sophie the Mermaid and the Epilepsy Run/Walk

After a year-long sabbatical where I wanted nothing to do with epilepsy and raising money to end epilepsy, I pulled myself up by my bootstraps (Republicans, love me!) and signed up to be Team Captain for this year's End Epilepsy Walk/Run. I'm forming my team now -- and some of you have already gotten notified and have generously donated -- but I'll provide links to it at a later date.

Today, I want to highlight one of my dearest blogger friends, artist Kim from Art in Red Wagons and Words On Paper Scraps. Kim has graciously created a special section in her etsy shop called Team Sophie and is donating a portion of her proceeds to our cause!

If you haven't visited Kim before and want to see some extraordinary drawing, painting and crafting, as well as beautiful writing and over-the-top gorgeous photography of the Pacific Northwest, you need to hop on over there. If you're so inclined, purchase one of those darling shells with the mermaids, keep it in your purse or pocket and help Sophie and all those like her.

Here's the link to the shop:  Etsy Team Sophie
Here's the link to join our team and/or make a donation: