Monday was my friend’s birthday. Her husband was out of town, and I felt her 14 year old son could not be relied upon to take her out for dinner, or even to do dishes. He is a great child, a good friend of Elliot’s, but I had a hunch on this one. “Mom cooks every night,” I could see him thinking. “It’s what she does. Obviously it is something she would do tonight, since it is evening, when she cooks.”
So I had her over for dinner. I also let Ilsa loose on the cake. Ilsa loves to make cakes. Ilsa would make us cake daily if we let her, and we would be even fatter than we are. She made a cake and I made various other things, all in about 2 hours, and all was chaos in the kitchen and we had to cool the cake in the fridge before we could frost it but it worked out. I invited some other women over, and banished everyone else to their rooms and we hung out and laughed and talked and a lovely time was had by all.
We’ve been having fun with candles and lanterns lately, taking advantage of the fact that we live in a place where lovely handmade things can be easily purchased. The hardest part is choosing.
Fun with candles, including an alabaster candle-holder from Egypt. Ok, that one was a present from someone, not bought locally.
This lantern was my birthday present from Donn. We live upstairs in the top half of a house, and we put it in the corner and liked it so much we bought another one for the other corner. We still need a third. If you come to our house after dark, we will light these candles for you to see as you enter.
It was a fun weekend. A friend from Fes visited; we hung out, drank Starbucks (her hostess gift), went out to the Potteries and found gorgeous bowls and vases and plates on sale at prices ranging from $1 to $4.
I love the Potteries.
Soon you will get tired of me posting pictures from there. But luckily for you, my camera died so I only got two pics this trip.
We’ve also gone to the beach. These pics were actually taken two or three weeks ago, before the visit I wrote about. These were taken at a different beach one Sunday afternoon when Donn and I left the kids home doing school work.
I think Rabat has some of the most interesting and beautiful beaches.
Donn: Why is it crooked? Me: It’s artistic. Donn: You did that on PURPOSE?
I love love love all the tide pools teeming with life. It’s a rule of English: tide pools must teem. Don’t fight it.
Rocks at sunset. These pics do not do it justice. I am going to have to break my rule and start posting my husband’s work, and then people will steal them, which will make me cross, and then I’ll stop again. It’ll be fun! Stay tuned.
12 comments
October 28, 2009 at 11:36 am
slouchy
oh, oh, oh. these pictures are beautiful.
October 28, 2009 at 12:17 pm
shannon
I LOVE LOVE LOVE those candle holders. I just got back from the base where I bought a whole bunch of yankee candles (getting very spoiled here in Europe) all in holiday scents (why do these always smell like food?) but I don’t have anything so beautiful to put them in. Now I want to move to Rabat pottery, beaches, and gorgeous crafts. Where do I sign up?
October 28, 2009 at 2:00 pm
LIB
Those pictures of the lantern with shadows are AWESOME!
Can you add a watermark to Donn’s photos the way AntiqueMommy does?
October 28, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Beck
Those PICTURES. and those LANTERNS. I love them.
And the thoughts going through the boy’s head about his mom? HAHAH!
October 28, 2009 at 2:26 pm
planetnomad
Lib, I have not figured out how to add a watermark. I want to. I get tired of even my poor little snapshots getting nicked and passed off as someone else’s work. Anyone know how to do it with Gimp?
October 28, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Mrs. G.
Hi, my dear, I can’t find your email address on this site.
Could you email me @ heaz@live.com
I have a couple of questions for you about the Women’s Colony.
Thanks!
xxooxx Heather (mrs. g.)
http://www.womenscolony.squarespace.com
October 28, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Linda
Great photos! Isn’t it nice to have friends? I wanted to watermark my photos too but my husband’s son, a computer genius, told me they could easily be removed so why bother. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
October 28, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Becky
I LOVE the lantern too! It’s just gorgeous. I want one!!!!!! And don’t stop posting pictures. No one gets tired of seeing all the exotic places you get to visit and shop at. (And you can tell Mr. Critical that I love the crooked picture as well as all the others. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
October 29, 2009 at 4:05 pm
gretchen from lifenut
Oooh, those lanterns.
Such a gorgeous life there.
Regarding watermarks: They can be easily cropped out of photos if the are on the bottoms/sides of pictures. When they are in the center, they cannot be removed without doing damage to the integrity of the photo.
I use a WordPress plug-in for my watermarks.
October 29, 2009 at 9:59 pm
nonlineargirl
What cool beach pictures!
October 30, 2009 at 7:27 pm
MaryWitzl
I love those candles! And your potteries are a lot cheaper than ours. Terracotta things here are so expensive I could weep. I’ve given up and bought plastic pots.
November 2, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Carrie
Please post more pics of the Potteries! I love seeing all the great handmade items that are available!