The Art of Life

We will start with the art of photography. Here are a few pictures I took at Mosida this week, just because the scenes struck me as beautiful and worth saving.

This is about the Art of Interior Design; it was fun to get to know these folks on Monday at Mosida.  In talking to them I mentioned that I am an antique dealer.  They said they had some great antiques but were starting over, because while living in Oregon, they had built a house with everything they wanted.  She's an interior designer, and had furnished it to the max.  A realtor friend had a client with a list ... as he read the list he realized the deep pocketed client was describing his friend's home minutely.  He asked them if they wanted to sell, they said it depends.  The clients viewed the house, and bought it, including the furnishings at a price the owners could not refuse.  They moved to Cedar City and started over.  

Then there is the Art of Friendship ... Sister Pittman who just started as a missionary shadowed us this week.  Then we found out that she had lived in the ward when we were home between our missions ... how funny is that?  She now lives with her son in Goshen. 

On Tuesday these three got to enjoy the Art of Rock Music when they all went to Smashing Pumpkins.

Darby and Davin in the show lights.

On Wednesday Van showed us the Art of Celebrating birthdays.  Actually, most of the celebrating happened before. This is the collage Dad used on FB to celebrate.

On Wednesday these favorite missionaries showed up in a matching color scheme to express the art of dressing like a pioneer. Julie Smith, LeAnn Newman and Lavern Crump.

Elder Newman shows the Art of the Pioneer Vignette here.

You can't see the handicapped son this couple is nestling in front of them.  But they were absolute masters of the art of enriching the life of a 17-year-old with the mental age of a one-year-old.  It was beautiful ... I've never felt so much love.

This man is showing us the Art of Pioneer Impersonation of his own g g grandfather.

Here he presents to a group at the river.

These two shows off the art of Hat Embellishment.

And this sister shows the art of Chicken catching ... we have several roosters who wander the site and keep down the bugs.  Many have tried to catch them without success, but she is taking him home to keep her chickens happy.

Here Elder Smith and Dad show the art of washing carts.

Awe yes, the art of beautiful China.  The upper two corner plates are Majolica.  A gal was selling these in Colorado on FB Marketplace about a month ago.  I asked if she was willing to ship.  She said no.  But this week she messaged and said that since she'd had no offers there, she would ship them, there are two others as well.  These plates are worth from 50 to 100 each and she has shipped them to me for $17, and I paid her 5 each ... yeah.

The bottom plate on the left is the same as one I got at DI, also majolica, for $2. The background color on mine is lighter but look at the price online.  I found another one too and it was $200. The blue dishes are patterns I love, and the lower right corner is one I bought at Anthropologie with a gift card from Britt and Spencer.  

Ah yes, the art of thrifting and gifting.

This is a local lady ... she's on Insta under Theadventuresofbluegirl.  She's a customer and the sister-in-law of one of our dealers.  She is demonstrating the art of hand crafting She really sells these and other hand-crafted goodness for prices like that.  The art of the hand crafter is well represented in her work. 

After work on Thursday, we headed to Highland for garden tours which were part of the Highland Fling.  Their city days celebration.  This fun mannequin is part of the art of garden decor as demonstrated by Vicki who's a dealer at our mall and told me about tours sometime last month.

In her garden house she has the same sculpture that I have in a smaller size.

Here she is on the right visiting with our tour participants.

We just love these bean panels made from bending a cow panel ... definitely want to try it next year. 

The next home was ridiculously and probably professionally decorated.  This was one of about 6 vignettes set up around the one-acre property.

But I did love the trouble they went to make this small ATV toy garage, so that it looks like a cottage.  The garage door is on the right-hand end of the building that opens onto a driveway.  Very clever.

At the third garden on the tour, we saw the Art of Growing Hydrangeas in Utah.  I have never seen such happy plants here in all my life.

Then there is the art of gift giving.  Dad had posted on the blog last week about losing our basement water heater.  Becca and Brady had just taken out a 6-month-old water heater that they didn't have room for in the bedroom/closet/bathroom remodel they are doing ... How nice are they?

And the art of dressing in red ... thank you Robin, who gifted the red polka dot top to me. 

And on Friday morning I enjoyed the art (or sport) of kayaking with friends.

That afternoon Dad really enjoyed the art of the perfectly grilled salmon. We will here note that he missed the window to buy Salmon Supper tickets back in June and managed to schmooze some folks at the city building when he was buying some Payson Puzzles ... one took pity on him and hooked him up with the head of the volunteers for the supper.  Thus, we see that he got to spend 3 hours instead of $22 for his salmon supper.  Yep, $7 bucks an hour and all the chatting with old and new friends that you want. Shown is a picture of Dave Davis of Macey's fame.

I, meanwhile, having talked Sister Lathrup at Mosida into taking my shift, got to go to the opening of Kristen Tye's art show in the Riverwoods.  Yep, that its, the art of well, art. 

This is the one I chose.  I just love it, and she has agreed to do a companion piece with a Finnish house in the background and red Finnish flowers in the foreground.  Her mother is Finnish, which you might recall if you read last week's blog when I noticed one of her pictures on Trevor and Nell's wall. 

Here I am with Kristen.

After purchasing my art, I wandered next door to Moons Antiques and Books ... it mostly looked like a museum.  It was interesting to see because Sherry, who I worked with at Treasures, works here now.  My favorite part was the miniature book collection he has on display.

The window in the door to the children's collection is encircled by Alice in Wonderland pictures.  How cool is that?  And that, I suppose is some form of the art of stained glass. 

I took the Dave and Bri's kids, who stayed part of the weekend with us, to some garage sales ... and here we see Nenna participating in the art of being adorable. 

Back at home, Eli shows of the art of making donuts in the donut maker he bought at a yard sale. 

And Dad shows off the art of persistence with his collage to celebrate his 18,000th reading of the Book of Mormon in Finnish ... oops I hit the wrong keys; he says it was only his 7th time. 

And this is a picture of the art of family history.  It is a picture of a little girl named Ruth Christopher with her cross-body purse, in 1954.  One of the other girls came to my garage sale a few weeks ago and said she had come to a birthday party at my house for Ruth.  She said Ruth now lives in Elkridge and she'd get in touch with her and see if she wanted to come tour the house.   She did and she shared these pictures with us, yesterday.  She said there were three girls named Ruth in the picture.  The girl second from the left is Ruth Clayson nee Rassmussen, who lived less than a block away.

Here she is with her family.

Her parents were the people who started the Christopher's Herb Shoppe, which is still in business and is now run by her son Christopher.

And here we are with her and her husband Norman Bacalla. 

After they left, we took the kids to enjoy a little of the art of Kayaking. 

There was lots of natural beauty too, including a couple of orange dragon flies.

The art of T shirt design, perfect for Dad.

We drove up and visited Aunt Cheryl too. 

Then it was time for King Kong Kones at Macey's in PG.

I stopped to drop off a book I had borrowed from Joanne.  I found out she has a little free library and borrowed two more ... not sure if that was really checking a task off my list. 

We stopped by the church on the way home and visited with Tayven Cook and his family, as he gets ready to leave for Basic Training in the morning.

And all the fun was over this morning as Dave came to take back his kids.  See the train is still there, Dad even vacuumed around it.  It makes me happy.

This photo that Danette Otteson posted reminds me of Kristin Tye's art.  Don't you think?  Maybe I should paint it, leaving out the dead trees of course.

And speaking of artistic photos, I loved this one that one of the people on trek posted this week on our Mosida Face Book page ... ya'll should go follow the Mosida page.

And today in Sunday School, Cheryl Phillips told about finding this heart shaped rock at the summit of Santaquin peak on Mount Loafer.  It was too heavy to carry down, but I think it's a good reminder that our Heavenly Father loves us all.  I hope you had a fine week as well, with much beauty to enjoy.