http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/When your immediate family has people from just about every race and religion and political belief, a world view becomes the only one open and available to you or your brain melts, your heart explodes and you develop a tic in one eye while you stutter about America First and Best and Only.It's a big and human being filled world out there. I'm only one temporary inhabitant of it.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/636590Penguins made of black olives. I cut coins of raw carrots and then removed one slice, like from a pizza. I gave the children a toothpick and they stuck it straight up into the carrot, which formed the feet. I gave them a huge black olive which we sliced open on one side and then stuffed full of cream cheese. We slid that down onto the toothpick and it formed his black and white tummy. They we slid a smaller black olive down the toothpick, stuck the small slice of carrot removed from the feet...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/636343Art comes in all forms and I have decided to cook this Monday, just for easy times. Well, not really cook, but make hamburgers, or rather, what look like hamburgers and are not. They should like the artistic side of this and the end result as they shall eat their creations. You take Nilla wafers, coconut, a chocolate wafer (thin mint) and some white icing > colored into red and yellow, while coloring the coconut green. Layering the Nilla wafers as buns, you spread the mustard on one and the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/634930I painted my niece's face in the sugar skull pattern and she was stopped all night for photos, which was great. People said nice things. Some people wanted my card for faces next year. Great. I quickly painted my own face, too late in the day, finished painting it four minutes before arrivbing at the Procession start on 4th Avenue and University Blvd, our hippie, street kid, college kid area. Parked far away. I had too much with me, candy to pass out to children and those glow in the dark...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/634690I will need to take a family of 9 to the mosque tomorrow morning and then take many teachers to the All Soul's Procession in the afternoon. I made 36 bags of candy to give out to the refugee kids as I had not taken them to trick or treat and was feeling guilty. Candy was down to $.50 and $.25 a bag by today.... They chastised me as I handed out candy. Sigh.............but, I was able to hold my friend Saadiya's new baby, Salman, for a minute. Showed his grandmother how to do the Mexican tight...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/634455I always like to take these photos as I end up painting them onto canvas at some point.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/634112http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/633927Another collection of photos from Guadalajara and roundabout.....Third in the collection.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/633619Tlaquepaque (tla-kay-PAH-kay) is where the tourists go to wander and eat and buy things. Famous artists have their outlets there, Bustamante and Padilla, for example. The Clay Museum in there, it is all artesanias really. Marimba bands play, an old woman and her son or nephew who are both blind play and sing, for decades now, and little birdies tell your fortune and it is always dire, for some reason!!! Crowds await the moment that they can betray you, all is dark and you are on the edge of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/633494HERE is the slideshow that I made of Guadalajara. I have four or so more, for those interested and they can be found under my name on youtube "abuelitaromo". These first four are just of some things spotted around town and some colors that caught my eye. Remember, I am into patterns lately, dunno why.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Abuelita__s_World/632803College kids are pretty non-chalant and carefree about safety measures and are making co-workers and fellow students very ill, very often, cochinos...........