Looking back at Alice - Traveling Gypsea Mannequin - My arts and crafts period - collage, decoupage and a yarn wig.

 As I have been filing photographs I came across images of Alice.  She holds a special place in my heart. 

I found Alice at the back of an antique shop that was going out of business.  I brought her home and worked on her for several months.  She was collaged, decoupage was applied and yarn was braided into hair.  The gypsea in her was brought out slowly and with love.

I decorated her with the idea we would take her traveling with us as we sold my arts and crafts.  I made decoupage suitcases, decorated hats and made yarn wigs too!  A friend and I were peddling wares, psychic readings and lots of fun as a traveling store.  We did events, even traveling to San Francisco to participate in the Castro Street Fair.  The whole family would pack up and take the show on the road!

My husband Phil and I would carry her around the Monterey Peninsula and take photos of her for my social media pages. 

Asilomar Beach

Monterey harbor and Fisherman's Wharf

Around Monterey

Seems like Alice liked a little fantasy and fun!

Pebble Beach

Mission Ranch

and Big Sur too!

 

Alice ended up being a model at my daughter Nicole's store "Ma's Green Living".  She worked there until Phil was diagnosed with cancer.  At that point she was auctioned off and the store closed as we went on the journey with Phil.  She ended up in a good home and is living a relaxed life now.

Alice working the store in the evenings....

Alice with myself and Phil.

From social media

Happy to look back, I don't know if I will ever create something like Alice again........

My Wanderings 2022 - On my Walk - Through the Magic Carpet in Pacific Grove, California

Before Phil and I ever moved here, we admired the beauty of Pacific Grove.  We would look at the images of the pinkish/purple magic carpet online, dreaming of living here. Not a day goes by that I don't enjoy and feel grateful for the beauty around me.  It has helped me cope with losing Phil.  Each one of my walks is filled with the love and memories that he left me.

 

"In 1943, living in a tiny cabin overlooking Pacific Grove’s Lovers Point, gardener and self-styled adventurer Hayes Perkins (1874–1964) began to clear a poison oak-covered ocean bluff in Pacific Grove.  Perkins’s hand-water the coastal bluff with a mix of shrubs and South African drosanthemum floribundum, a succulent of the ice plant variety. Over 14 years he single-handedly created a nearly one-mile-long pathway into a dazzling springtime carpet of fluorescent-purple blooms, a floral “Magic Carpet”. Named Perkins Park in 1950, the garden plays an important role in the town’s appeal as a resort destination."

I'm still working on my video skills.   Having fun and I have a lot to learn!!!!!