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Twisted Wire Trees

Carl — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:24:35 +0000

What a nice surprise! Master Matt sold the Bowling Ball Wire Tree yesterday. It is now on its way to Nebraska.

Matt showed the pictures of the wire trees he made to my mom when we were in Europe. My mom was very impressed and kept praising him how talented he was. Later that day, Mom asked me with the look of great concern on her face, “Where is the other half of the bowling ball?”

Me: What bowling ball? What are you talking about?

Mom: The one Matt used to put a tree on.

Me: Oh, that one. I don’t know. Maybe he threw it away.

Mom: THREW IT AWAY? HOW WASTEFUL! Why didn’t he use the other half and put another tree on it?

Me: I have no idea. Why are you so worried about this? Are you some kind of bowling ball police?

Decorative Wire Trees

Carl — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:01:56 +0000

Master Matt strikes again. Many hours he spent with the copper wires, beads, and saws, and even the stove in the kitchen. Indeed! I once saw him putting the wire tree base in the oven baked for hours. Then, he said, “AAARRRHHHH! I screwed up.”

My favorites are the geeky techno wire tree and the doggie wire tree. Here’s his collection.

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@ whimsytrees

Don’t Tell My Mother

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:09:33 +0000

Thanks, Matt. You indubitably outdid yourself again.

The Fall Feast

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:27:03 +0000

The Master did it again. Matt transformed the house to the medieval times, built a tent in the living room, “grew” real grass in the hall way, and put together the entire fall feast. He even MADE HIS VERY OWN royal costume and mine all BY HIMSELF. Our guests arrived in style, fancy costumes, exotic hairdos, and ostentatious accessories. We drank, we ate, we talked, we laughed. It was great fun. For our friends who were unable to fly to Washington to attend the feast, here is some of the Kodak moment…

The King. The one and only. I give you – MATT!!!

The King and Queen

The King, itty bit of Callie the royal dog, and Enya???

Honorable Guests

The Feast

It only took me three hours to clean up the table and the kitchen the next day. It took days for the KING to take down the decorations and restore the house back to its original state. Poor King.

Happy Halloween II

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:52:50 +0000

We are the 3 Spice Geishas.

I am the most demure.

Our nephew, John, in the center, is the most sensuous.

Well, somebody has to be the scary one – Matt.

Happy Halloween

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:56:06 +0000

“How does my hair look?”

“Fabulous! Try not to shake your head too much. I ain’t fixing your hair all night.”

It brought back painful memories…

… 20 years ago, my family was so very poor. My father was a drunk and gambled away all my mom’s savings. One day, my mother couldn’t take it any more and went crazy. All my brothers and sisters were still very little. The responsibility to support the family fell on me. I vowed to be a successful geisha one day so my brothers and sisters could go to school.

… 20 years later, I am famous and can do simple math with my fingers and toes, but all my brothers and sisters are college graduates.

… and no, he’s not my customer.

It’s all about loosing weight

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:01:51 +0000

I thought we were going to T J Maxx for Matt’s new project at work. He undertook the huge responsibility to construct two pinatas to play at work. When we got there, he headed towards the housewares section immediately. I was wondering what he could find there for the pinatas, but I didn’t ask. His creativity cannot be questioned. He made the impossible possible right before your eyes.

I walked towards the menswear. I was on a mission to find my Jerzees t-shirts. After hours of searching, I gave up as I was ready to throw myself in front of a bus. I walked to the housewares section. He had several items in the cart but none of them was for the pinatas.

“How are you going to put the picture frames and the plant stand in the pinatas?”

“We are not here for that. We are here to get the plant stand. I want to put it on the landing so we have flowers this winter.”

5 hours later…

“Why is this thing here?”

“I told you I’d put the plant here as it gets the afternoon sun. We’ll have flowers blooming all winter.”

“There’s not much room left for me to get by. My big ass will knock everything over.”

For Matt, the flowers make him happy. For me, it’s all about loosing weight so I can get by without causing an earthquake.