Busy weekend in San Diego 08-27-13

I was in San Diego Friday night through Sunday evening, mainly to help where I could at the Veranda Sale that Visions Art Museum held to take advantage of the Art Walk across the street.  It is the first time they have held Art Walk there, so everything was unknown.  The idea for the museum was to sell the extraneous items in the storerooms and cabinets along with some donated treasures.  They had quilts, books, fabric, old textiles, gift items, jewelry, baskets....well, a little bit of everything I can think of.  Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we were so busy that nobody took any photos until Sunday after lunch when the pickings were getting slim and the crowds thinned out.. 


I liked the home made signs that attracted people to come across the street and up the steps to our veranda where there was a gentle breeze to cool us off an extra warm day (for San Diego).  Of course, the planes continued to takeoff, the flight path is directly over Liberty Station, so we exercised the Point Loma Pause as needed.


A visitor is browsing the last of the 12" x 12" quilts we had for sale at bargain prices.  I am standing next to Glenna Evans, another volunteer working as "crew" for the day.  

 

Lots of hats, lots of long slinky skirts (must be the IN thing this summer), many couples both young and old.  And good sales for the benefit of the museum.

 

Since I was going to be there for the weekend, some of my friends arranged to meet for dinner at the nearby Solare restaurant to celebrate my 75th birthday a bit early.  The BIG day is September 1st. 

Here is the group that dined together on Saturday evening:  Beth Smith, Judy Warren-Tippets, Ellen Spellman, Lisa Yoder and Andrea Bacal.  The empty chair at the far end is mine.   

 

Instead of a cake, the restaurant produced Tiramisu in a 6" flower pot!   When the waiter first put in down I thought it was dirt - doesn't it look like dirt to you?  But it is a topping of chocolate flakes with a sprig of mint and a candle.  We passed it around  the table and everyone helped themselves.  Delicious.

 

Here I am - the silly birthday "girl".  Ellen Spellman made these flashy, funky dice to hang on the rear view mirror in the Lexus.  Sort of a memory trip back to the 50s and the fuzzy dice that hung in the "cool guys" cars.   I thought they might work as earrings, but perhaps not.   I'm wearing a wonderful new scarf from the dye pots of Meredith Strauss of Los Angeles (she sells at the VAM gift shop).  It was a fun evening - just the beginning of this year's special birthday celebration.  75?  It is hard for me to believe!