Saturday, June 20, 2009

A Bit of Culture and A Big Surprise

Well another roasting day here in Atlanta (upper 90s). Got up this morning and decided to spend the day at the High Museum of Art in nice icy A/C. The new exhibit is Monet's Waterlilies and there are four waterlily paintings on loan from the Museum of Modern Art. Here is Claude in his garden.
Impressionist paintings are amazing in real life with all the color and texture. There was also a really interesting photograph exhibit of Richard Misrach's On the Beach series. It was lots of fun and a great way to spend a too hot day. Lunch was a trip over to Howell Mill Road to Taqueria del Sol, one of my favorite restaurants. I always have fish tacos and queso dip and chips. Today was a perfect day for a margarita on the rocks with salt so I had one of those too. A toast to a long hot summer in Atlanta.

I came home and was checking through blogs in google reader. To my huge surprise I won a blog giveaway!!! Good golly miss molly, it was the way fab bag sewn by Anne Sutton and her talented Chelsea!!! I nearly fell off the couch! See photos of the stylin' tote I will be toting soon here. I'm so excited I can't stand it.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Love the new bag-can' wait to see it in person. It is too hot even to sew so I guess I will veg on the couch and get up early tomorrow. I need to get motivated!!

Unknown said...

Anne Sutton is one of my personal hero's!! So jealous. Congrats and I can not wait to see the new bag!

Becky said...

Thrilled to read about your win!!! Cute bag! We'll even get to see the bag, I hope.

Michelle said...

Congrats on winning the cute bag!

Amanda said...

Lucky you, to be seeing some of Monet's paintings, they've always been some of my favourites. When we were in France some years ago we visited Monet's garden at Giverny, it was stunning and you could see how it was such an inspiration to him.

sewprimitive karen said...

What a neat photo of Monet. Congratulations on your win!

Susan said...

Congratulations on winning the tote! It is a really cute bag!

Cathi said...

Congratulations on winning the bag! It really is cute!