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bluhm studios home pricing press publications 12 june 2012 recipe for preserving children yesterday i was sorting through a big zip lock baggie of old recipe cards that my friend co worker tracy brought it for me to rummage for my current design project which is a new company cookbook the recipe cards had belonged to tracy s grandmother so it was super fun to go thru them since i am such a lover of old paper and ephemera which is why i am doing this project i was hoping to find some recipes and old cards that i can alter to use in the project and i hit the jackpot not only was it a treasure trove of vintage papers and clippings but i found many garlic themed recipes too the particularly interesting about this recipe box though was that tracy s grandma had also clipped interesting tidbits for gardening home keeping etc and included them in her files this particular piece really spoke to me it was how i grew up and how i strive to raise my own daughter particularly in this technologically prolific time so many kids are plopped in front of tvs game consoles and cell phones and while our daughter is no exception when it comes to her love of digital goodies we balance that with a healthy dose of outdoor time swimming jumping gardening and playing with her pets recipe for preserving children i hope to see a turn toward these values again during my lifetime it seems that there are too many kids wasting away prisoner to the screen and life just goes faster and faster i know that it will be these types of memories that will stick with my daughter as opposed to which video game level she just conquered at 4 42 pm 2 comments 02 june 2012 treasure trove wedding of actor arthur lake to patricia van cleeve at hearst castle my grandmother is a bridesmaid far right and i believe my greta aunt is second from left in the process of researching our family genealogy recently my uncle learned that my great aunt had passed away on jan 1 i am not sure why no one on my side of the family was notified earlier but recently my 2nd cousins had a memorial for her which i was sadly unable to attend in addition my 2nd cousin trevor has been scanning in lots of old family photos and sharing them with my uncle for his genealogy work since i had expressed such an interest in the genealogy and also he knows that i use lots of old photos in my artwork he has been forwarding to me all the photos that trevor has been sending it has been amazing to say the least to see glimpses back in the rich history of my family something i had only heard stories about and seen the occasional picture of sadly my grandmother suffered from alzheimers and passed before i was really old enough to ask many questions i have received dozens and dozens of pix over the last few days so i have just pulled out a few of my favs and the more interesting famous people to share here so the rest of the post will just be cool old pictures with simple captions these two photos are from scotland of my great grandmother marguerite moll draper she looks like a doll my great grandmother swimming with charlie chaplin off of heart s yacht on a trip from ny to ca amazing my great grandmother at a baby doll party at hearst castle c1920 s joan crawford at same baby doll party ugh blogger is being a pain letting me post these pictures i hope they turn up ok even if they are going wonky my great aunt my great grandfather and my grandmother at heart ranch for a bbq i have tons more and will share some more favorites another time hope you get a little bit of a kick at looking at them as i did at 5 27 pm 1 comment labels family 27 may 2012 remember it doesn t have to be perfect sarah ahearn at 9 30 am 1 comment 25 may 2012 breaking out of the box just a little bit last year some time my friend bridgette asked me to design a tattoo for her it threw me for a loop as i do not consider drawing a strength at all but i reluctantly agreed to sketch out some things based on her ideas she sent me a bunch of her ideas and inspiration photos and i procrastinated good thing she didn t have a date scheduled for her appt although she did have a gift certificate burning a hole in her pocket she set a tentative date for her birthday in april and i thought to myself enh i have plenty of time she managed to nag me in a gentle way and i finally stopped procrastinating and started sketching in my smash journal i showed her some ideas and she finalized where she wanted to get it on her body i traced out her foot and did tracings and rearranged the parts of my ideas she liked i finally gave her my final drawings and told her to play with sizing on the copy machine and with her colored pencils since she was undecided as to which colors she wanted her guidelines to me were girly including her sons initials j and n and using hearts she liked a heart strings idea well if there is one thing i like to doodle or draw is swirls and spirals so i played with all kinds of curlicues and swirls to the left here is a page from my journal where i did the first doodles well today was the big day and bridgette got her first tattoo it turned out great and she is over the moon i am pretty excited for her because a i happen to really like tattoos i have 2 and b its the first one i designed what do you think at 5 09 pm 5 comments 17 may 2012 sparkle this just spoke to me today i am not sure where i grabbed this image from if you know its origin please let me know at 11 30 am 1 comment 15 may 2012 musings and a winner hello people mother s day flowers love thanks for popping in here today i seem to have been hearing a lot of crickets around here lately and it brings me back to considering just closing the blog i dunno i go back and forth a lot in my head last week started off on a high and then quickly devolved into a serious low i am still feeling the funk as i try to readjust my sails handling family can be so complicated and i am trying very hard to redraw some of my personal boundaries i am both cursed and blessed that my parents are in our lives so much i think it is wonderful for hannah especially since losing my fil last year her only surviving grandparents are here and we see them several times a week i wonder if that is making her take them for granted i think it does and i am struggling with how to help her see them for the gift they really are and can be the sticky point is that circumstance have made it so that even though my parents divorced looong ago we are now all working together its wonderful at tomes and tedious at times too i love my mom so much she has been my best friend at times and i know that she sacrificed so much for me and my brother i am thankful for that but trying to maintain a healthy distance so that we can be in control of our own family for both greg and myself we are treading on new ground as my parents divorced when i was very young and his mom passed away hen he was very young we have no real model for an intact family life is always a learning experience isn t it anyway i guess that is what is bouncing around in my head i had intended for blogger to auto post some stuff while i was out but it didn t and i am not sure what s going on i will have to go in and manually post those this week i guess in the meantime thanks to those of you who stopped by to comment on my monday post i had hannah choose a number and she picked 6 who is my friend lelainia so since i already have your address i will pop some cards in the mail to you happy tuesday at 11 25 am 3 comments 09 may 2012 work table wednesday hey all its work table wednesday woohoo i skipped last week as did everyone else i think but i am trying to get back on the horse this week even though i feel kinda yucky today i think the allergies are attacking today i spent most of the day working on a website for my part part time job i work part time for a small local winery called river run vintners and it can be lots of fun during our last meeting i got lunch and wine to boot now that s the kind of employer to have huh as far as artsy stuff i have still been stitching up a storm i just finished another sampler by charlotte lyons but i can only share a sneak peek because its a pressie for someone special i just got two more from charlotte s shop to start on st the rate i am going i think she needs to start a frequent buyers club finally the only really artsy thing i did today which was to make this card for my sil for mother s day i hope it gets to her in time all the way to mn it was fun to bust out the foofy stuff today don t forget to visit my last post and leave a comment for my give away what have you been working on at 6 31 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me heather simpson bluhm artist writer virtual assistant hand letterer trier of all things crafty but also wife and mama to a beautiful smart and funny as heck teenager what living loving and creating on california s central coast and tellin all about it view my 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back later this afternoon monday for the winners i am home sweet home free printable i posted about this cute print i made for my collage wall back in november i never did get around to printing any out for friends because recipe for preserving children yesterday i was sorting through a big zip lock baggie of old recipe cards that my friend co worker tracy brought it for me to rummage for hey look pictures so i finally took some pictures of some of the projects i have been working on i have been really motivated to work on projects so i have print n journal i created a new zine entitled journal play for alma s swap this month it was largely done by hand and then scanned with en copyright all contents of this blog are bluhm studios heather simpson bluhm please do not copy or distribute any of the content found here without written permission or i will hunt you down and tickle you until you pee your pants all contents copyright heather simpson bluhm bluhm studios 2012 simple theme theme 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