Kit Davey, Interior Designer
18 Years in business - Over 2,600 homes transformed!
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News from "A FRESH LOOK" Fall 2007
1. Quote
2. Websites to visit
3. Next Art Sale/Open House
4. Recipe
5. Odds and Ends
6. Classes
7. Donations for school kids in Guatemala
8. Have fun doing art in Guatemala!
1. Quote of the quarter
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hoffman
2. Websites to visit
•If you think you may have some money out there in the universe waiting to find you, check out www.sco.ca.gov to see if any unclaimed moola is being held for you. I actually found over $200 in dividends from some old stock I had when I was a teenager!
•To learn more about how to live lightly, or how to maximize your small home, visit www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/smallhousesociety.
•If you are starting to get those pesky telephone solicitations again, it’s time to re-register with the “Do Not Call Registry”. Go to www.donotcall.gov or do a web search for the National Do Not Call Registry. You can also call: 1-888-382-1222.
3. Save the Date!
My annual Art Sale and Open House will be held on Sat., November 15th from 12 to 5 pm. If you didn’t make it last November, please come this year! 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 home. Bring your friends! Location: 1539 Granger Way, Redwood City.
4. Kit’s Quick Chicken Masala
Ingredients: 1 jar Trader Joe’s Masala Simmer Sauce
5 frozen or thawed skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 can garbanzo beans
Directions: Put everything in a slow cooker on low for 8 to 10 hours. Serve with rice.
5. Odds and Ends
•To minimize the number of cookbooks on your shelves, create a recipe binder. Go through your cookbooks and photocopy the recipes you actually use. Put them in clear plastic sleeves in your binder. You can then donate or give away seldom-used cookbooks.
•Keep an ongoing grocery list by your phone or hanging in your pantry. Every time you run out of something, just add it to your list.
•Use a letter-sized tickler file for your grocery coupons, punch card memberships and gift cards. Keep it in your car, along with your cloth shopping bags, so you have it when you go shopping.
•Keep a “rip and read” file, instead of piling up magazines to “read later”.
6. Special Class: "Stage Your Home For Sale to Maximize Your Profits".
Wednesday, Feb.13, 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 the Palo Alto Adult School, 50 Embarcadero Rd., Palo Alto ($35, plus $5 materials fee). Call the Adult School to register: (650) 329-3752.
Decorating Class: "I LOVE This Room Now---Room Re-Design Secrets”
Wednesday, April 2nd, 7:00-9:00 pm. 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. To be held at De Anza College, Cupertino. ($40, plus $7 materials fee). To register call: 408-864-8817 or visit www.fhda.edu.
7. Donations for Guatemalan School Children
Last year on a visit to Guatemala I had the honor of serving as translator as two large donations of supplies were given to schools. I was so touched by the extreme neediness of the teachers and students and their deep gratitude that I vowed to bring down what I could when I returned. Most of the school children were barely clothed (many with no shoes), and couldn’t afford basic supplies. I asked the principals of the schools what sort of things would be helpful. Here is the list:
Health items: Children’s vitamins, children’s aspirin, band-aids, anti-bacterial ointment, tooth brushes, tooth paste
School supplies: Please: no paper goods---they are too heavy! Pens, pencils, scissors (child-sized), centimeter rulers, tape, glue sticks, watercolor paint sets, backpacks, felt pens, crayons, pencil sharpeners, children’s books in Spanish, erasers
Recreation/other supplies: soccer balls (deflated) basketballs (deflated), ball pumps, small sized “jelly” (plastic sandals), hairclips, combs, stickers.
If you would like to donate some of these items, please leave them in a bag on my doorstep. You could also send a small donation and I will use the money to purchase supplies.
8. If you can cut and paste you can do art!
Come join me for an ART WORKSHOP IN MAGICAL GUATEMALA!
Dates: March 6 -15, 2008
Location: Antigua and Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Description: No art experience is necessary to participate! Our projects will include book altering, embellishing old photos, keeping a trip journal, matchbox 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. Our projects will expand your creativity and help you practice your new techniques. Daily sessions will be a combination of demonstration, time for experimenting 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. This will be a fun, exploratory class for all art skill levels.
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, Easter processions, a Mayan ceremony, homemade lunch in the home of a local family, weaving demonstration, museum visits and more!
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---clean, quaint, with nice gardens. A hearty breakfast is served daily and is included in the workshop fee.
Cost: $1725 (does not include airfare).
Please visit www.Artguat.org or call Liza Fourre (612-825-0747), for more information or to register. To see some of my artwork and for some snaps of Guatemala,
visit www.AFreshLook.net, click on Classes, then on Gallery.
Happy Decorating!
Kit Davey
Telephone: 650-367-7370
Email: KitDavey@aol.com