Kara Lennox's Blog, page 7

The Recycled Art Supply Store

Today Rob and I stumbled on this great store.  It sells recycled stuff for you to use as art supplies, everything from bottle caps to egg cartons, fabric scraps, paper...

Watercoloring fool

I decided I wanted to learn to watercolor.  So I bought a box of kids watercolors, some cheap brushes, some watercolor paper, and I just jumped right in.So far my efforts...

Bikeride to Belmont

After a tasty breakfast at the Long Beach Cafe, Rob and I rode along the beach path to Belmont Shores, which is a lovely area of Long Beach (and the real estate far out of our...

Homemade pesto, yum

I went to the farmer's market today and bought a big bunch of basil for $1.  Such a bargain!  so I did the only sane thing I could do, which was to make it into...

Still no house

The bank required some additional information.  Everyone who made an offer on this house was told to give the bank their "best and final" offer.  (They are going to...

Greeting from Carlsbad by the Sea

I am visiting my in-laws at their lovely retirement community in beautiful Carlsbad, California, about 1.5 hours from our new home in Long beach.  We are walking on the...

We offered on yet another house

We went to see a new listing today and it was so cute we immediately wrote up an offer.  Us and a bazillion other people ... we'll just have to wait and see.Another house...

Closer to having a house

We've received a counter offer to one of our offers.  It seems pretty fair, so if we really want this house, it's ours.But do we really, really want it?  I can't...

Feels great to be writing again

I am almost ready to send my YA book to a prospective agent.  Feels like I've been working on this thing for years! But that's what happens when you don't write.  You...

I'm officially a California girl now!

Finished the bike trip, then packed up the pets and bikes and drove my loaded Toyota Celica across the desert to Long Beach.Yay, I am finally here.  (Been here a couple of...