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Reflections on the A to Z Challenge 2012: Almost the A, B, and C of It

A to Z Challenge Badge 2012

Artwork by Ada Z from Collagepodge.com I often wake up to a jazz standard in my head, and today it’s Teach Me Tonight, particularly, Dinah Washington’s version, with the lyric: Starting with the ABC of it Right down to the XYZ of it Help me solve the mystery of it Go on, teach me tonight The [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: Z is for Zest

Source: veganyumyum.com via Margaret on Pinterest Clementine Zest by teenytinyturkey on Flickr     Zest is a thing that adds flavor, often the peel of an orange or lemon, piquant, but also a keen enjoyment and enthusiasm, a zest for living.  I was fascinated by zesting oranges when I was little, and my mother would get out the bumpy grater [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: Y is for Margaret Yen and the Hidden Work of Music Supervisors

Jason Reitman and Margaret Yen

  I never knew there was such a thing as a Music Supervisor until I searched for a Margaret whose last name started with Y, and found Margaret Yen.  Music Supervisors pull together musicians, composers, arrangers, songwriters, performers and basically anyone else who is associated with music on  film, tv, advertising and videogames, and helps [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: X is for Xylophone

  Jazz musicians who play the Vibraphone are rightly sensitive about their instrument being called a Xylophone, since many people have never even heard of the Vibes, and even though I do know they are different,  I didn’t realize that Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo each started on a Xylophone in the 1920′s.  The Xylophone’s [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: W is for West Main Diner, Lansdale, PA and Nutmeg Designs World Headquarters

  Where I grew up in Canada, there were no diners, but Stratoz is from the heart of diner country.  The West Main Diner opened up a few years ago in Lansdale, PA, and we have spent a lot of time there having business meetings, coming up with designs, and eating pancakes, and drinking coffee. [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: V is for Virago Baking Company in Lansdale, PA

Cupcakes at Virago Baking Company

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A to Z Challenge 2012: U is for Unfolding into Flower

Tulip Mandala by Nutmeg Designs

  Stratoz was inspired by a photo he took of a tulip, looking straight down into its unfolding beauty, and translated into green and yellow glass before giving it to me for the brilliant orange mosaic center, with metallic glass tile, stained glass and dichroic. More orange goodness at my Orange Tuesdays Pinterest Board.

A to Z Challenge 2012: T is for Tea and Planning for an Artist

Source: artocrat.blogspot.com via Talia on Pinterest   I grew up in Canada, a nation of tea drinkers.  After I moved to the States, I drifted away from tea, and at age 40 took up with coffee(a late bloomer).  But a few months ago I started making tea for myself in the morning as a way [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: S is for Stratoz – (Otherwise Known as Wayne Stratz)

Stratoz(Wayne Stratz) in his studio. Photo ©Allison Puketza.

Like a certain singer from New Jersey, Wayne Stratz spent month-long vacations in the stratozphere growing up, and decided to name his blog Stratoz: A Life Unfolding in 2007.  I refer to Wayne as Stratoz when I write about him on my blog, and perhaps some readers do not know that he is my husband and [...]

A to Z Challenge 2012: R is for Rainbow Mandala Mosaic

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