Kit Davey, Interior Designer
18 Years in business - Over 2,600 homes transformed!
Newsletter: July 2007
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Contents:
1) Quote
2) Websites to Visit
3) Recipe
4) Environmental Tips
5) Class in Guatamale
6) Design Classes
1) Quote of the Quarter:
Keep adding little by little and you will soon have a big hoard.
Latin Proverb (This could be a good thing or a bad thing!)
2) Websites to visit:
- www.Youtube.com. Type in Women in Art. In less than three minutes you are taken through 500 years of female portraits from da Vinci to Picasso via a series of images that seamlessly morph one portrait into another. Truly mesmerizing and beautiful!
- www.sco.ca.gov/col/ucp. Think you may have some money coming to you? The State of California is holding more than $4.8 billion in unclaimed property. Click on the piggy bank to see if there is any unclaimed property waiting for you.
- www.optoutprescreen.com. This website will stop credit card and insurance offers from coming in the mail.
- www.Publicolor.org. Find out about how brightly colored schools can produce brighter students.
www.azmaidsofhonor.com/checklist.html. Get a free, comprehensive, room-by-room household cleaning checklist.
3) Recipe
Light Lemony Yogurt
Ingredients:
16 oz. Trader Joes non-fat Greek Yogurt
Juice of one lemon
Zest from one lemon
3 or more packets of Splenda
Directions: Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Add a few fresh berries for garnish and serve.
4) Tips: Do Your Part for the Environment!
- Don’t throw old prescription drugs or over the counter drugs into the trash or flush them down the toilet. You can drop them off at any Costco pharmacy, the Redwood City Sheriff’s Dept., or the police stations of Pacific, Daly City and San Bruno.
- Save water by re-using it. When you finish boiling eggs or pasta, let the water cool and use it on houseplants or potted plants outside. Take a bucket into the shower with you to capture run off. Use the “gray water’ for your garden or to flush the toilet with.
- Make your own lunch and pack it in a lunch pail or cloth sack. Use a cloth dinner napkin and metal utensils which can be washed at home. You’ll save gas, packing materials and money. A recent Wall St. Journal article said that if you pack your lunch every day for 30 years you’d save $100,000 (that figure is based on $6 to buy lunch and $3.50 for brown bagging it.)
5) ART WORKSHOP IN MAGICAL GUATEMALA!
Collage, Mini-Altars, Altered Books and Mixed Media No experience necessary!
Dates: March 6 -15, 2008
Location: Antigua and Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Description: Expand your creativity with fun and easy techniques for collage and assemblage, using paper, paint and small 3-D objects. Our projects will include book altering, embellishing old photos, keeping a trip journal, match box books, making artist trading cards and mail art and creating mini-altars. Some of the techniques will include paper weaving, rubbings, layering paint and paper, sewing on paper, pop-ups, and incorporating metal, wire, and glass beads into your work. Your theme-based projects will expand your creativity and help you practice your new techniques. Our art sessions will be a combination of demonstration, time for experimenting, sharing techniques and ideas, and exploring Antigua for materials and inspiration. You’ll come home with many completed works, lots of enthusiasm and new ideas to use in your art. No art experience is necessary to participate! This will be a fun, exploratory class for all art skill levels and backgrounds.
Also included:
Transportation to and from the Guatemala City airport
3 to 4 hours of art per day
Transportation in air-conditioned, vans on fieldtrips and to the Lake region
Great shopping
Fieldtrips to nearby towns
Easter processions
A Mayan ceremony
Homemade lunch in the home of a local family
Weaving demonstration
Museum visits and more!
Despedida (good-bye) party on our last night
Bilingual, native escort to accompany us
Lots of free time to explore on your own
Accommodations: We’ll stay in charming, comfortable posadas (inns). The posadas are well situated, within walking distance of the heart of town, yet very quiet and private---very clean, quaint, with nice gardens. A hearty breakfast is served daily and is included in the workshop fee.
Cost: $1745 (does not include airfare).
Please visit www.Artguat.org to register or for more info. To see some of my artwork and for some snaps of Guatemala, visit my website, www.AFreshLook.net, click on Classes, then on Gallery.
6) Staging Class: "Stage Your Home For Sale: How to Maximize Your Profits"
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 7:00-9:00 pm.
Thinking of selling your home in the next few months or years? Find out how to invest your time, money and energy so your home sells quickly at the highest possible price. You'll learn what potential buyers are looking for in a new home, which improvements and updates give you the most bang for the buck, how to give your home "curb appeal" and how to stage each room of your house.
To be held at Foothill College, 12345 Moody Road. Los Altos Hills.
Cost: $39, plus $5 materials fee payable in class.
To register on line: www.shortcourses.fhda.edu, or by phone: 408- 864-8817
Decorating Class: "Room ReDesign: Take Your Home from Blah to Beautiful in 8 Hours or Less!”
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 7:00-9:00 pm.
Learn how to redecorate your house by creatively rearranging the furniture and artwork you already own. You'll discover how to define your personal style, how to create new furniture arrangements, and how to balance a room with color. Quick, easy accessorizing techniques for bookcases, artwork and displaying collections will also be shared.
To be held at Foothill College, 12345 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills.
Fee: $39, plus $7 materials fee, payable in class.
To register by phone, call (408) 864-8817.
To register on line, go to: www.shortcourses.fhda.edu.