Emi is Rad.

I've spent the past few days in Tucson, Arizona with my sister and her little family. Ruth Ann has two little girls, Ella, who is 2 and Emi who is almost 6. Emi loves making art and doing "projects". She proclaimed recently that "I want to be just like Auntie Rachie when I grow up!" Unlike her auntie, Emi gets up very early and puts herself to work doing"projects" and creating.

When I come to visit, I usually stay on an inflatable mattress in the office/spare room. I'm not a morning person so, I've had to resort to locking the door as to avoid early morning visitors who can't understand why I'm not nearly as excited to see them at 6am. Emi has a hard time waiting for me to wake up, so she uses her creative abilities to entice me out my room and play.

When I woke up Sunday morning I saw this:

carefully placed underneath the bedroom door. Then there was this:


and these:


leading me to a weekend of fun with my nieces. Emi is so alive, creative and fun and if anything I want to be like her when I grow up.

P.S. I've been helping Emi start her own blog to share her art. It's a bit rough around the edges but I hope you enjoy her creativity as much as me and her mom do...

i discovered this on twitter

i've become a twitter junkie, i'm not gonna lie. i follow @shitweb which has links to some pretty "crappy" websites.... this is a keeper.... http://www.havenworks.com/

you're welcome.

all kinds of dust

so, in short i've come up short. i need to find about $1500 i wasn't expecting to put into the floor into the new grün location. i need to try and get open in time for the st. george art festival in april, which is held a block away from the new location.... so i've come up with a plan.... if i could get people i know to donate a just a single buck to the cause then i might be able to get it done, if not it'll be several more months before the space will be ready... so if you like grün even a little...spread the word... donate.

click on the link below and donate as much as you can...

any additional monies raised beyond the amount needed for the floor, will be donated to women in business pay it forward i say.

there will be more information and a tabulation of how much money has been collected on the grün website and the grün blog.