December is finally here!

……. but can we stop with the texts and emails on Super Sales -- lucy

Peaceful scene during the holidays but the women in the picture must be looking at a blank phone. What I’m I talking about…...

Yes, the barrage of notices both in text form and by email for Cyber Monday sales. I can unsubscribe to the emails, but some are about product that I might researching. Just quickly glancing at my emails I came up with the following titles from just a few days that they think will capture me to buy:

Now extended

Now on sale

Cyber Week

Did you miss our Cyber Monday sales?

Shop up to 40 % off

Holiday savings come to an end

Cyber Monday

Surprise! Big News! Huge! SALE EXTENDED

Final Day

Today only sale!

Cyber Friday

Last Chance

Prices going back up tomorrow

It’s Giving Tuesday

Back in stock

Going fast

Cyber Sale Extended

Free Shipping

One day only

Missed Cyber Monday Don’t worry

Last hours!

Unbeatable deals

Cyber Monday ends tonight

Time is running out

Cyber Monday final HOUR

Yes, enough already I am worn out with all the ads about holiday sales. Discount pollution I will name it going forward. Let’s not forget Black Friday so check out the article we published in 2021: Here it is: Black Friday Sales.  Gives you the history of that day.

Remember, it's okay to take a step back and focus on your well-being. Take care of yourself and enjoy some downtime after the busy shopping period. But really can they cut back on the emails/texts?

On a positive note, the Thanksgiving holidays was amazingly fun and shared with a variety of friends here in the Coastal Bend. Enjoyed delicious food and stories to match with extra laughter as a topping.  Thankful and grateful for all in our path.

Products/Gift ideas

Being with friends you share ideas and comments during the holiday such as ‘Loved your article about making your bed – as I always do make my bed….’ I mentioned that I would also like to adhere to my recommendation of making my bed a little better, but our mattresses are hard to tuck a sheet in on all sides properly. Then we started talking….

Walla -  enters the Bed Tucker. Who would have thought but the hotels use them. Great reviews as there are others on the market. You want to get this one-piece item not one that is wood and plastic combination, as that will break. Be sure you are not fooled by cheap imitations! The Bed Tucker, by DB Tucker is the original, patented, and trademarked, bed sheet tucking tool.

ABOUT THE TUCKER

Manufactured in South Florida, The Bed Tucker is PROUDLY MADE IN THE USA. It is also packaged by the special needs adults of Palm Beach Rehabilitation Center, providing work opportunities for its members.

The Bed Tucker was the idea of Dolores and Phil, 91 and 98 who knew there must be a better way to make a bed. I got mine in two days.

Christmas List Ideas

Good ideas from a Christmas List:

I subscribe to a newsletter called ‘From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy’ who is a writer living in Puerto Rico. The painting below is included in her list of gifts. She puts together nine gift baskets based on nine food-loving archetypes.

Artist is Maura K Spain. Painting is called ‘Cooked Fish’ and is an oil on canvas is one of the gift ideas.

Vases

Ilex Studio – Avocado Vase   Introducing the Avocado Vase by Ilex Studio. We believe you will find the avocado plant growing fun, engaging, and rewarding. Along with, it’s one of the heartiest and handsome house plants you can grow. Beautiful by itself.

Arora Ceramic Vases - Set of 6 from Pottery Barn.

For those that have been to our home you will always see small vases of flowers around the house. I refer to these as islands of beauty and are so flexible and easy in arranging in different configurations.

Busy week coming up, so this is a little short and sweet newsletter today but more to come in the weeks to come.

Headed to Miami for three days of art and shopping this coming Monday. To start with the Kickoff for Miami Art Week at the Rubell Museum. First it is my first time to Miami other than the airport and the Rubell Museum is a collection I have been impressed with when back in the 2006 there was a show at SITE Santa Fe titled: Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family collection. The collection history goes like this:

‘“Life After Death” positions the paintings and drawings in this exhibition in the afterlife – the afterlife of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany), of social realism, and of painting in general. Traces of the GDR inhabit the grim interiors and muddled social modernist architecture in these paintings. Social realism, once the dominant style behind the Iron Curtain, possesses the figures who rarely make eye contact, keeping their thoughts to themselves. Painting itself (its death is an unlikely event that art critics proclaim every ten years or so) crops up in the emphasis on craft. You can see it in the use of classical gestures, graphite scaling grids, forced perspective, and careful attention to color.

These seven artists chose to study at the Leipzig Art Academy, in the former East Germany, in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This was an unlikely decision at a time when the inhabitants of Leipzig were leaving in droves for the West, and when the main currents of art flowed away from painting, toward video, photography, and installation art. The untimely embrace of a shrinking East German city and conventional medium is imprinted on the pictures, but rather than buckling under the weight of place, time, and tradition, they convey something surprising and subjective. The mystery of these pictures, with their out-of-date sources and classical techniques, is their utter and beguiling singularity.’

Then on my return I am in an art workshop for three days: Impressionist Watercolor Workshop with Vladislav Yeliseyev.

Vlad’s watercolor from Rockport Center for the Arts website.

We will see how this turns out. Also, we have dear friends arriving today with their two children, Dilly almost 4 years old and Ames who is almost 2 years old. A lot planned for the kids, and we get a big kick out of entertaining this group.

My partner in crime Miss Dilly last summer

Houses

$8 Million Sea Ranch Dream Home Has a “Mystical Portal” to the Ocean

Set in a private cove, the 1970s residence captures the sight—and sounds—of the sea with walls of glass and a peculiar porthole.

Enjoy your weekend and relax a little from the chaos out there.