INTENSE RED COPPER

Hi Ya'all!

We love it so much here!!!

I'm slowly finding a place for everything -

and putting everything in it's place.

I dyed my hair today. 

All by my little lonesome self.

Jerry is off at a buddy's to work on his truck

  
and I am now redder-headed than I was early this morning.

Did you know, I have 2 red-headed grand children?

Yep, I do! 

And a brunette.

Anyway, 

I used the remainder of the dye 

(which I always wished I could have done whenever I got my hair colored in Colombia)

and I dyed fabric.

The pictures show the process,

without any explanation. 

Feel free to ask questions. 

I may even be able to answer them.

I'll show you the finished fabric soon!

Oh yeah...

The fabric I dyed

was the temp muslin I used on the windows.

Loving life...

annie!

CARTAGENA

I'm sorting, sorting, sorting. 

And sorting.

I've got about 2,000 pictures burned onto discs -

from my old-now-wiped-and-given-away desktop - 

and want to leave as many discs behind as possible...

so one of my projects has been to load them onto my laptop 

and then go through and delete all but my favorites. 

These pictures were taken the first time we visited Colombia...

before moving here a little over three years ago. 

They're of old town Cartagena...

which in it's own way...

is very beautiful.

Remember the movie, "Romancing the Stone"? 

It was filmed partially in Cartagena.

Michael Douglas dove off the wall surrounding the old city

to wrestle the crocodile that swallowed the huge emerald.

Of course...

if he dove off the real wall...

he would've hit concrete. 

Still.

It IS a beautiful city

and I would encourage you to visit.

Just don't wear any nice jewelry 

or carry much money 

or important documents

with you.

And the Hotel 3 Banderas,

where we stayed...

EXCELLENT.

BUT when you venture out...

DON'T look the street vendors in the eye 

unless you want them to follow you for the next hour

begging you to buy their wares.

Create Your Life,

annie!