Kit Davey, Interior Designer
18 Years in business - Over 2,600 homes transformed!
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News from "A FRESH LOOK" April 2008
1. Quote
2. Recipe
3. Classes
4. Thank you for your donations
5. Invitation
6. EWaste disposal
1. Quote of the quarter
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
2. Recipe: Kit’s Sugarless, Healthy Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients:
½ cup golden raisins
½ cup dried apricots, chopped
1/½ cups old fashioned or quick oats
1 tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. baking soda
½ cup whole-wheat flour
½ tsp. salt 1 egg
¼ cup granulated Splenda
¼ cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla 2 tbsp. water
Directions: Put raisins and apricots in small pan and cover with water; bring to boil. Pour off water and set aside. Place oats, cinnamon, soda, flour and salt in bowl and mix well. Add raisin/apricot mixture along with egg, oil and water to dry ingredients. Mix and drop spoonfuls onto cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
3. Class: Backyard Decorating: How to Create an Enchanting Garden
Sat., July 19, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Cost: $27 (includes materials).
Location: Common Ground Garden Center, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto
To register, call: (650) 493-6072
Do you love to putter in your garden? Are you looking for ways to improve
and tweak it? Would you like your garden to look and feel more creative? Come
learn how to add humor, mystery and spirit to your garden. You’ll learn how to:
•Use unusual objects to decorate your garden
•Give your home even more curb appeal
•Create and enhance zones for outdoor living,
•Create vignettes or scenes viewable from inside your home
•Make mosaic/pique assiette orbs and stepping-stones.
You’ll be inspired to create a garden that truly expresses who you are!
Decorating Class: "I LOVE This Room Now---Room Re-Design Secrets”
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 7:00-9:00 pm
De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Stevens Cupertino.
$39, plus $7 materials fee. Take $2 in quarters or dollar bills for parking.
To register call: 408-864-8817 or visit www.fhda.edu.
Would you like a more comfortable, functional and beautiful home? 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.
4. Thank you for your school supply donations
During my recent art workshop in Guatemala, I delivered 50 pounds of much needed school supplies to Los Amigos de Santa Cruz, an organization which supports education, better health care and environmental and economic development projects in the tiny village of Santa Cruz La Laguna. Los Amigos provides fuel efficient wood burning stoves and water filters to needy families, built and staffs a regional library and computer lab, and runs a nutrition and health program for preschool children. The donation was received with deep gratitude. My art friends and I got a tour of the library and lab, the preschool class and the health education center. Coincidentally, a team was going to visit a remote outlying village to deliver school supplies the next day and my bag came at the perfect time.
• Thank you to Judy Martin, Jane Alsalom, Elaine Raines, The Wehrends, Sandra Anderson, Ruth Robertson, Linda Atwood, (and the anonymous person who left a big bag of supplies on my front porch) for your generous donations. You made a difference!
5. Save the date!
Please come to my annual Arts and Crafts Sale and Open House on Saturday, November 15th from 12 to 5 pm. You are welcome to tour my home and also to shop for jewelry, paintings, sculpture pieces, greeting cards and other works created by artisans who set up tables throughout my house. Bring your friends! To be held at my home: 1539 Granger Way, Redwood City.
6. Handling E-Waste .
If you are looking for a free place to recycle an old TV, computer monitor, cell phone, microwave oven or other electronic device, ASL Recycling has established GREENspot drop-off locations at Bains Facilities Management, 1836 #B Bay Road, East Palo Alto, and HOPE 460 E. Middlefield Rd., Mountain View. For other locations visit www.aslgreen-spot.com.
• Costco Trade-in and Recycling Program, in coordination with Greensight, allows members to recycle computers, LCD monitors, digital cameras, camcorders, game systems and MP3 players free---and in some cases receive a Costco Cash card for any estimated trade-in value. Go to Costco.com, click on “Electronics”, then on “Trade-in and Recycle”.
Happy Decorating!
Kit Davey
Telephone: 650-367-7370
Email: KitDavey@aol.com
Website: www.AFreshLook.net