Lettuce and a Summer Recipe

Here is a clever idea with lettuce growing in containers attached to exterior house siding:

These are my little pots with leaf lettuce now ready for the picking.  Each clay container will make maybe two large salads at two week intervals.

Along with fresh fruit, this salad will be delish on newly harvested lettuce leaves:

Here is the website for Strawberry and Mozzarella Salad with basil.  Our basil won't be ready for a while, however.  The leaves are still very young:

Eye Art - Really!

Putting on eye makeup has taken on a whole new realm with eye artist Katie Alves.

Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas gets Katie's eye-art treatment

More pics from the London's Mail Online:

this one inspired by Aladdin

And my favorite, fairies:

this one inspired by Alice in Wonderland:

Cool...but if the eyes close, I wonder if all those colors would smear.  It is hard enough to keep brown on the upper lids without disaster!

CASA and a Fundraiser at Tiara Rado and Boston's Pizza

Back in November, I became a CASA and posted here about it.

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Mesa County (CASA-MC), recruits, screens, and trains volunteers to speak in court on behalf of children who are abused, neglected or abandoned by their families. These volunteers are the eyes and ears of the Judge. Judges, make the final decision of where a child will live. Will the child be returned to the parent or will parental rights be terminated and the child be placed for adoption. This decision is influenced by the information the volunteer provides to a Judge and could be a major determining factor in the future of that child.

Casa means home, but for thousands of abused and neglected children, it's an acronym that has even more meaning – it's the best chance of finally finding safe, permanent homes where they can thrive.

This morning will be my 15th session of either meeting with caregivers and case workers or being in court to represent my little kiddo in need of foster care.  My partner in CASA and I have created a one inch file of documentation on "our child" so far!  (His foster parents are doing a great job with the kiddo, by the way.)
From the KKCO website:

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)_11News and Boston's the Gourmet Pizza are teaming up for two great fundraisers to benefit abused and neglected children in Mesa County.
First join 11News this Saturday at Tiara Rado for the 7th Annual CASA Golf Tournament. There's still time to register by calling 242-4191. It's $300 a team or $75 a person. It's an 8am shotgun start.

Then on Wednesday, June 8, join the 11News team at Boston's as the anchors and reporters serve up lunch from 11am to 2pm.
Boston's will also 15 percent of its proceeds for the day to Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Help 11News and Boston's make sure no child's voice goes unheard.

This Wednesday, June 8, Boston's Pizza in Grand Junction is giving a portion of their profits to CASA. If you are not a golfer, at least come out and have lunch or a drink and join the KKCO team in supporting CASA!