Rastaman Russell

Russell stopped by last night to have waaaa lee chat. He was telling me about how he eats grass and leaf and stick and tings. He told me that most fat girls with big belly comes from backway batty. I wonder what he meant.I asked Bigness if Russell eats grass and leaf and stick an tings, he said yeeeessss mon, he see Russell graze like cow and enjoy it.I'm still puzzling over what he meant by back w...

Price List for Answers

The tourists are coming, we're getting traveling refugees from all over Central America and the Yucatan because so far... we've been lucky with the weather. Its like a wave of foreigners hit the island yesterday. This year I've made up my new price list.I get asked the same questions over and over.Where are you from? $1How long have you lived here? $2Do you like living here? Dinner and drinksThink...

Halloween 2004

This is what happened to me last year when I lost count of my drinks at Popeye's Beach Halloween Party. The thought of going through this again is really repugnant. File this one in "Most Embarrassing Moments" I lernt my lessss...

Illustration Friday - Broken - Oct. 28

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Photo Friday - Oct. 28 - Delicate

Photo Friday submission for Oct. 28. This photo was shot in Southern Belize, west of Punta Gorda, near the Maya site Lubantum. We were at a butterfly farm where they breed blue morpho butterflies and others (can't remember the name of this one) for export to England. My friend's 4 year old daughter held perfecly still while butterflies landed on her and the red hibiscus. It was one of those magical...

Bread Baking, Pasta Salad Making and Impossible Spinach Quiche Pie

A big thank you to Google, without it I would be lost. I can't believe I'm in the food business - again.I grew up in the food business, when I was a child and young teen my parents had a catering company. Weekends were spent with my brothers (Einstein and Charles Manson) peeling 100 lbs. of potatoes and serving coffee to blue haired ladies at wedding showers. When I was a teenager my parents actually...

Secrets of the Jaguar Woman

I'm not into words today, just pictures and captions.This is a new release. The original art is created on hand-painted silk. I started by tye dying silk and hanging it out to dry, then I stretched the silk on a stretcher frame using a staplegun and the drew the mask using something called gutta. This style of silk painting originated in France and is called Serti technique which roughly translates...

I'm in hog heaven

MB was here and brought me stacks of New Yorkers and Vogue magazines. She had an exciting time with dodging hurricane WilmaThe store opened yesterday, we were sort of ready, lots of stuff to put away still, but its clean and mostly functioning. We needed to open anyway because people were beating the door down to get in. Well, not really, mostly they were asking in a polite way, when are you going to open? Awe shucks... they missed me. Well maybe...

De Rain She Come

Wilma has reared her ugly head in Belize. We're getting storm surge and rain. If you look at the satelite images, the little point coming off Mexico on the southeast side, we are about 10 miles below that. From the beach to our first street on the east side of the island it is flodded. We have about 3 feet of elevation, so a little bit of a wave goes a long way. I sandbagged the street entrance to...

20 Random Things About Me

I'm going to ignore the storm, and it WILL go away. Its getting really dark out.I was just tagged by Vitrolica so here goes:1. I want to learn how to play the steel drums2. My favorite color is turquoise3. I don't like swimming in the ocean as much as I like looking at it.4. I don't care if I ever drive a car again.5. I have a fear of poverty.6. I like to cook, but not to clean up. I am a terminal slob.7. I have so many art supplies I could open...

"The Renovation" and Mayan Jaguar Dancers

I've decided to type until my fingers turn blue because my computer is temporarily working, and if this storm comes, who knows how long it will be until I can communicate again.I haven't told you anything about what I did while off the island. The first part of the trip was spent servicing my wholesale accounts traveling on the mainland to the west and south of Belize going to the different resorts...

Photo Friday submission - Conspicuous - Oct. 15

Three little boys shimmied up the tree and gorged themselves on guava on their way home from school. At one point the boy on the right actually stood up hands free and walked another foot farther out. Being a mother myself, I felt anxious and nervous. I kept waiting for the crack-splat noise, which never came. This was shot late in the afternoon in Placencia, Belize. Notice the little boy on the path...

Big Storm Coming

http://www.wunderground.com/tropicalSo, if you don't hear from me for a while, you know I'll be safe and dry and on the mainland (with no internet)--LeeUpdate:MB is here. She got to see FWGs den of iniquity.I AM SUPERGIRL!I fixed the washing machine today. If you're going to pack up for an evacuation, you REALLY should be packing clean clothes. It wasn't hard to fix either. I took the back off the machine, said a bunch of swear words, took the drain...

Blatent Advertisement for Apartment Rental

Cute, newly renovated, island style shabby chic (that's a code word for - nothing matches), AIR CONDITIONED, 1 bedroom, upper apartment located on Avenida Hicaco (Front Street) Caye Caulker, BelizeHot & cold water, micro-mini-wave, coffee maker, cd player, cable TV, fully furnished, able to sleep 3 comfortably (day bed in livingroom), large rooms, private bath, full kitchen, with stove and small...

Illustration Friday - Cold

Cold Blue Eggs in the morning sun. I sorta cheated, this is a "photo llustration" it started off as a color photo of cold brown eggs in the morning light, I made it into a greyscale image, taking all the color out, then back into a rgb, where I tinted it with blue in the midtones and red in the shadows, then I applied some photoshop filters and voi...

The Story of Freaky White Granny

I have to type really fast because I'm supposed to be washing windows right now. Bigness has gone downstairs to continue working on "The Renovation" (another upcoming blog entry)Freaky White Granny first came to Caye Caulker in May for her daughter's wedding. She's a retired kindergarden teacher from Brooklyn. I met the daughter (nice girl), but we don't serve booze or crack in the art gallery, so I never met the mother, on that trip. The Kids decide...

The Before and the After

I'll get to the in between on the next blog entry.The Before:Just before we closed up I broke the espresso machine. The new espresso machine. The one we've only had since June... the expensive one... the one that I had to go to the U.S. to buy because no one will ship to Belize. I'm painting a picture here. I was just a leeeeeetle bit distracted by freaky white granny, crackheads, the police and the...

I'm baaaaaack

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