get out, get inspired!

hola! long time no post! i'm trying this again...could it be quitting facebook is influencing my need to post? hello??? interwebs??? i am heeeere!!!! 

anyhow, i must admit, i live in the burbs with my family and i often get caught up in soccer, homework, birthday parties, book club etc....and this is CRAZEEEEEEE because i live next to one of the very best cities in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD! san francisco...you inspire me like nothing else.

my hubs, kids and i had the opportunity to enjoy a quick 24 hours in the city and here is what we saw...

that's right! Banksy in Chinatown!

hello dancing blue lady with flying babies, i like you!

oh no scary blue skull guy, please don't eat my babies (unless i tell you it is o.k.!)

what are you looking at sweetie pie?

so this is just a store front in the Mission District...my eyeballs like to feast on things like this!

grrrrr kitty

the best blue house ever

how great are these masks? (and the kids in them!!!)

so, is it strange that i was totally smiling for the camera in this photo? 

anyhooo, please get out of your routine once in awhile...it is sooo good for you (and it makes you realize that getting your 4 year old to her soccer practice is in NO way near the most important thing.......)

let's do lunch

recently i had the opportunity to volunteer with my kid's school for a project that culminated with a festival thrown for several parochial schools from the mission district in San Francisco. 

the festival was in honor of St. Francis of Assisi and included a play, singing, dancing, face painting, fortune telling, flower arranging and 350 free lunches. i helped in the making, assembling and passing out of the lunches, good thing they didn't ask me to help with the singing and dancing, instead of seeing happy, joyful children there might have been fearful and freaked out children.

anyhow, the way this last minute event went off without a hitch reminded me that people are capable of wonderful things...here is to saying yes and getting involved....what will you say yes to?

great stuff

so I saw this fella selling his art in San Francisco yesterday and I looooove it! please go check him out amos goldbaum ! i just might have to purchase one of the muni tee shirts!

big art, little girl

strictly a great day at the bluegrass festival!

so many inspirations, all in one day!!!! the family and i went to the hardly strictly bluegrass festival in san francisco's golden gate park yesterday, and i gotta say...it was a good day. please check out the amazing AMAZING AAAMMMMAAAAZZZZIIINNNGGG talent of one Neko Case...(she is the tiny red head in the first picture...) http://nekocase.com/