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Feb
21

Vision Board vs. Vision Book

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We’ve all heard of vision boards thanks to the movie The Secret. I always liked the idea of a vision board to help me get more visually focused on my goals but what I did not like was the blatant display of what I wanted in life. It made me feel a bit vulnerable. I didn’t want my family and guests in my home to give their opinions of my visions. I wanted my visions to be MY visions and was not interested in other people’s criticism or opinion of them.

What I used to do was make mini vision boards on construction paper.  This worked well for me because I could tuck them away in a folder of my desk and look at them in private without the peanut gallery having a say in my “woowoo” stuff. ;-)

However, I have recently discovered something even BETTER and more FUN than my mini vision boards and they are called Vision Books! The vision book idea came from my friend Marilyn LoRusso who runs the Vision Book Art Workshops out of her home in Marin County, California. She leads us through creating vision books re-using old, hard cover novels, that we alter.

Here are two of my vision books:

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Tucked inside those pages are my visions and dreams wrapped up in a pretty package. Marilyn’s workshops have been so successful she is now offering an online version of her workshops, it’s actually an 8 week vision book rainbow  journey, as she calls it.

Oh and you don’t have to be “woowoo” to benefit from Marilyn’s workshops. Our local newspaper, the MarinIJ recently wrote a piece about the workshops. When I started taking the workshops I had no idea where I was going with my vision or what my vision even was. I just new I was ready for a change. A lot of wonderful things have changed in my life in the last year.

If you are feeling overwhelmed and unhappy with your life, it is time to give yourself a break and take care of yourself. Creating a vision book is one way of doing this.

Click here for information about the Online Vision Book Rainbow Journey.

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Feb
04

Fun things to do in Marin Today

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If you are looking for something fun to do in Marin County today check out the Marin IJ site where they list 3 things to do in Marin everyday.

Happy Saturday!

It’s another beautiful winter/summer day here in Marin County and it is almost Valentine’s Day!

Have you thought about what you are going to give your honey, your child, your best friend or your mom for Valentine’s Day yet? Want to give them something new and different? I have an idea for you!

Go to San Anselmo today!

Tamara Holland is having an Art Sale TODAY.

Where: 2 Florence Ave. in San Anselmo, CA.

When: Today, February 4, 2012 from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Bean Up The Nose Art is teaming up with 2 other great local artists to provide a one-stop shopping spot for Valentine’s Day goodies: cards, mugs, jewelry, and other gifty-goods!
While you are in San Anselmo be sure to take a stroll down the main Avenue and stop by to say hi to Joy at Gioia and Lindsay at 3 Ring Cycles.
If you missed Tamara’s Art Sale you can always purchase her fabulous wares online here.

 

 

Did you know this blog has a Facebook page? Click like to see the morning sunrise pictures I take from the bus while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.

 

Please leave a comment if you know of other fun events happening this weekend in Marin County and around the Bay.

 

Happy Saturday!

 

Nov
07

It’s a Small World

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I had to go all the way to LA to meet a super cool woman from Marin.

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This last weekend I was down in LA with Celia who was presenting at AEA (American Evaluation Association). Celia put together a rock star team for the presentation & I was lucky enough to be included in the after conference dinner. I got to sit next to the fabulous Felecia Gaston (from Performing Stars of Marin AND The Phoenix Project) who told me about an event she was organizing for Veterens Day in Marin City.

Performing Stars of Marin’s Annual
Veterans Day Parade

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Honoring the Bay Area Tuskegee Airmen

 

Parade starts at 11am at the Manzanita Recreation Center.
630 Drake Avenue
Marin City, CA

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Aug
26

@TamHolland Art Thing

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Looking for something fun to do this Sunday?

How about stopping by @TamHolland‘s Art Thing? Actually it’s called Under the Sun Flea Market but for some reason I can not remember that name so I keep calling it @TamHolland’s art thing.  Tamara (aka @TamHolland on Twitter) makes cool stuff like…

Greeting cards. Luggage tags. Checkbook covers. Magnets. Business card holders. Collage goodie bags so you can make your own cool things.

Bean Up The Nose Art will be selling all sorts of goodies at the August “Under The Sun Flea Market” at Beach House Style on Sunday the 28th. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 779 Center Blvd. in Fairfax, CA.

The Marin Twitter Gang will be meeting up there sometime after 1pm so stop by and say hi. #TweetUp

All are welcome! Hope to see you!

Check it out! This event was even mentioned on the Sunset Magazine site!

Full disclaimer: @TamHolland sent me an absolutely beautiful bouquet of flowers today to thank me for inviting the tweeps to her art thing but I had plans to put this post up BEFORE the flowers came. It was actually on my list of things to do after work today list. It was such a wonderful surprise to come home and find this gorgeous bouquet of flowers waiting for me. Thanks Ms. Tamara! I love my Twitter friends!

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Jul
16

A Band of Wives and a few Wallflowers

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On Thursday night a large group of women descended upon Mill Valley. There were so many beautiful women arriving, the town couldn’t contain itself and erupted in excitement.

The reason for all the excitement was the A Band of Wives event happening at El Paseo restuarant.

  “A Band of Wives is not about being married to men. It is a sisterhood of women who are supportive of other women and are looking to connect with likeminded women.  We are helping women bring community back to their communities.”

As I was driving to the event the street literally was erupting in front of my eyes (and my car). I was a little nervous to drive by but ended up getting a great car wash (and photo) at no charge.

When I arrived to El Paseo I knew I was at the right place because I found the patio full of beautiful women.

Photo borrowed from A Band of Wives

I was happy to find familiar faces as soon as I walked in. My Tweeps were there!  I said hello to my tweep friends, made my way to the bar, had a glass of complimentary bubbly, then did I little mingling. Ran in to the authors (Sue Warhaftig and Beverly Butler) of the book, Meant to Be that we are currently reading for the Twitter Book Club, chatted it up with them for a bit and then like a magnet was drawn back to the corner where my Tweeps were. Guess what they were doing? They were in a huddle looking down at their phones! I joined them. I SO wish I had a picture! However, I did get a picture of our toes. We were acting like a bunch of 7th grade girl wallflowers with the difference that we were having a blast tweeting it up while chatting with each other.

So… we aren’t that bad, we did actually talk to some non-tweeting wives. How could we not? They were all so friendly.

At one point during the evening Christine Bronstein, the founder, got up to speak and tell us about a sister wife who is going through a very difficult time.  Here’s an excerpt* from the ABOW Facebook page with an example of how the wives actually do band together:

After the first El Paseo gathering I wrote “Oh what a night! There are simply no words to describe the high that comes with flittering, fluttering and floating amongst so many amazing wives who came from far and wide and mingled and laughed and ate and drank and were merry all around!”

This feeling, this merriment and excitement and support was still in full effect on this July night but tenfold as wives packed up the venue and enthusiastically reached out to each other in true ABOW spirit… but our gathering was also bittersweet as wives lived up to our ABOW name and indeed banded together for one of our own who needs help, wife Tika Hick.

Thank you Christine for the spur-of-the-moment fundraiser for Tika. If you don’t know the story, our wife Tika has been battling breast cancer with a new baby, is scheduled for a double mastectomy on July 20th and could really use our support in now tragically losing her husband (http://ow.ly/5G4Nn ). Please keep her in your prayers and if you want to help financially:

Attn: Matt Johnson
Bank of Marin
501 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
Suite 100
Greenbrae, CA 94904
Make payable to Hick/Potts Fund, Tika Hick or Bank of Marin and reference Tika

*Written by the fabulous Leila Radan who is the Director of Operations for A Band of Wives.

 

Here is another post about Tika from a fellow wife/Tweep @LisaKiftTherapy who posted Tika’s story on her blog.

After lots of love, tears, laughter, socializing and tasty appetizers (the little cups of Mac-n-Cheese were to die for!) the geeks, I mean Tweeps decided to go out to dinner at Piazza D’Angelos. The 4 of us (@pobutler, @alembic, @tamholland and me) plus one innocent woman we planned to convert (a non-tweeting friend) headed over to Piazza D’Angelos where we sat down at a lovely table and promptly pulled out our phones to check in via FourSquare. We were more interested in our phones than in what the waiter had to say. I think we annoyed him a bit. When we finally got around to looking at the menu we discovered Piazza D’Angelos now has a gluten free menu! However, it seems the waiter isn’t fully sold on this menu yet… when Dolores and I ordered the gluten free gnocchi his response was do you want that one or the REAL one. We wanted the gluten free one and got it! I imagine being a waiter in Marin must be trying on the patience with all the quirkiness in diets that Marinites come up with.

Our plan worked, my friend Dolores converted and is now tweeting! She just had to try it after sitting there with us for awhile watching us tweet and chat about tweets. She grasped the concept of how Twitter works faster than anyone I’ve ever taught! She’s a natural. Follow her here: @mizstarryeyed She and I put our phones down long enough to take this picture.

A special thank you to Leila Radan for being SO active on the social networking sites keeping me informed about the upcoming A Band of Wives events. To Christine Bronstein for creating this wonderful group. Tolan Florence for welcoming us into El Paseo. To my Tweeps for sitting in restaurants with me tweeting. And all the wonderful women who showed up!

 

 

Mar
27

Easter fun for kids in the North Bay

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Marin Mommies has created a great list of Easter egg hunts in Marin and the North Bay.

Check out this list for some hopping family fun in 2011!

http://www.marinmommies.com/marin-county-easter-egg-hunts

 

And here is some Easter fun for the adults! ;-)

This comic makes me laugh every year.

Categories : Events, Family, Kids, Marin
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Jan
09

Twitter Dancing

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Thanks to @DrMichelleXO‘s wonderful idea, we brought the Marin TweetUp’s to a whole new level of fun.

Last night was the Girl’s Night Out Twitter Dance. Which basically means if you are a girl on Twitter in the local area you were invited.

Eight fabulous women showed up at George’s Night Club in San Rafael around 7:30pm to have a glass of wine and chat before the concert started. (@DrMichelleXO @CurtisFinancial @RebeccaElia @RuthWetherford @HylaMolander @Pobutler @Sally_K @alembic)

George’s Night Club in San Rafael is awesome! It’s been newly remodeled and is a great spot for dancing in Marin.

We were fortunate enough to see Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings at George’s. We chatted and danced the night away. (One woman sitting nearby thought we chatted a little too much and little too loud. I think she thought she was a library instead of a night club.) We closed the place down!

Afterward we took a stroll down 4th street in San Rafael and headed to Yet Wah (Classic Chinese Cuisine). Nothing like a big plate of Chow Mein after dancing all night!

Yet Wah closes at midnight, we arrived at 11:50pm. They were nice enough to stay open for us.

I didn’t get a chance to take many pictures from last night because it was too dark, but I did get this video using my iPhone. The band was amazing!!!

Come out and taste some delicious soups and desserts at Marin’s Soup and Dessert Challenge.

Mill Valley Community Center

Saturday, January 22, 2011

12-3pm

Restaurants and businesses will be offering their best and letting us be the judges.

Marin’s Soup and Dessert Challenge is a benefit for CIP Marin.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Bring the family, all ages welcome. Kids under 12 free!
More info here: http://cipmarin.org/pages/event/event/loving_spoonfuls.htm

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Dec
01

World AIDS Day San Francisco

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Remembering those we’ve lost. World AIDS Day San Francisco.

San Francisco Civic Center World AIDS Day

Photo by Troy Holden

Beautiful pic of San Francisco City Hall take by Flickr UserTroy Holden

SFist has some cool pics from World AIDS Day. In Hungary people walked inside a giant condom. And we thought we were the progressive ones. ;-)

California ranks second in the nation in cumulative AIDS cases at 157,719, surpassed only by New York. – San Francisco AIDS Foundation

What can you do? Visit  http://www.sfaf.org/get-involved/index.html

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Nov
30

Homegrown Marin Market

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The Homegrown Marin Market is a fun place to meet new people and try new food.

I went earlier this year and had so much fun! I met Shae Irving who tweets at @Hitch2Heaven. Shae makes the most amazing jams. (Great holiday gift idea.) ;-) Check out her blog to read about her jams and see some mouth watering photos: Hitchhiking to Heaven. I’m now seriously craving some of Shae’s jam. I think I’m going to have to go to the Homegrown Marin Market just for her jam.

Pomegranate Champagne jelly

Photo borrowed from: www.HitchHikingToHeaven.com

The Homegrown Marin Market is a culinary club where you get to try delicious foods prepared by local Bay Area chefs. Admission is $5. Bring extra cash to try the goodies and/or buy gifts.

It’s held in the Studio 33 art gallery in located at 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalito.

December 4th, 2010 from 11am – 5pm.

http://www.homegrownmarinmarket.com/

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