All Quiet on the Western Front

The weather has turned nice and typically S. Californian again - still confusing about wardrobe - now we are back to warm temps!

A few projects have turned out nicely - I revived the watchband of a watch my sister had given me.  It is actually a sort of turquoise snakeskin - and the ends were worn and without color.  So I colored in the worn bits with a light green permanent marker I had just gotten at a clearance table. 

Hurrah for permanent markers.  You can do so much with them.  Coloring in the worn edges and ends of the watchband has totally revived it, which please me because it matches the turquoise of the watch itself - and where does one buy turquoise watchbands? Now that I have worn it a few days, the green is settling nicely into the turquoise, and the watchband doesn't look as if it's on is last legs anymore!

Walked around a pleasant Valley neighborhood after therapy - It is old cottages with old gardens and large trees - according the the imprints in the sidewalk put in in the 20's.  Really charming and my dream of a neighborhood.  But I consoled myself with the fact that I had brought some of that feeling to the side bits of garden at the apartment.  Because without my input (and the input of an ex-neighbor) it would still be dry grass and hard dry mud. Now I come home to roses and assorted greenery.

That neighborhood also yielded some chestnut burrs and various pods along the way - which I collected to bring back home to put over my paper potpourri I concoct from the fragrance strips in my gratis magazines.  By the way, I also recycled a bag full of magazines at the therapy office and sent them on their way. I am now getting a flood of magazines and hubby complains about the piles, so I have to recycle them elsewhere.

Oh, and I put the key I had gotten at the antique shop on a ball chain necklace - and then knotted the chain just above the key to balance it out.  Looks great! Not bad for free + $3.50!  I love my casual necklaces. You can even wear them - beach wise - with t-shirts, etc. Everyone at the beach does that - hippie influence I suppose.  But I do like it still.

Take care all and don't let all the financial news get you down - what's the song? "Don't Worry, Be Happy"? I myself am enjoying the fresh air here.

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Quiet and the Sky is Blue

Don't worry be happy, happy is the best place or feeling to have and be! Glad to hear you have sunshine agian, i was in California with family in December for a trip to Disneyland! not to much sunshine then, quite rainy, but nice still! I see your posts alot, you are my inspiration Thanks so much for remaining true to your frugal ways! chrystal in frezzing Cold Alberta

Yes, we do have winter! It's our chilly & rainy season. But being in a desert, it rains in torrents & then stops. See me blushing...I am an inspiration? You have made my DAY.

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