A lovely Christmas window in Noe Valley. It's an eyewear store with a clever play on glassware. I love the simplicity and elegance of this display.
Wreath made at Mitch and Martha's annual wreath-making, cookie-decorating, soup-tasting party. I went right to work making this wreath. Actually a guest had to create the base for me. I kept snapping the grapevines. She showed me the trick - get a very long one and gently bend the vines around, keeping the beginning ends held tightly in one hand. After that, it was smooth sailing. Made bunches of boughs with Douglas fir and Manzanita branches. I wanted to use some of the red Manzanita wood so cut some thicker branches and arranged them at the bottom. The central decoration was going to involve dried citrus slices but they were used up, as were many of the other decorative elements. However, no one had touched the bowl of gray-green fuzzy pods. I burned my fingers using a glue gun to create a flower shape. The center of the flower is made with an outer skin of a buckeye and a small pine cone. Tied the whole thing together with an orange-green ribbon and it was done! What an absolutely enjoyable afternoon! It was a warm, beautiful day in Sonoma. Drought weather.
