1000 Pillows

This weeks pillow or should I say pillows are both 12×16 in size and made from 100% cotton fabric. Both are made with a zipper for easy cover removal and washing.The donation for these pillows is $25 plus shipping. Thank you for supporting our wedding dream!

The love story continues:There are a few things a man has to have to attract me to him and ask anyone that knows me-it is not the material things in life. Although, there is nothing wrong with that according to my high school volleyball coach who once told me, “It is just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as it is a poor one.” For me a few key things that a man has to have are great hands, beautiful eyes and a compassionate being. So when John handed me the grape from the vine, I paid special attention and his hands are perfect. So he had already won me over with his eyes and the only thing remaining from my list was the compassion. Is he compassionate, time would tell? As the day progressed, Jan needed to get a few other production elements in place for the rest of the shoot and she wanted me to help her get the final pieces of the PR plan in place. We left the crew as they prepared to film the barrel room of the Kunde Estate and later that day the process of making olive oil at the McEvoy Ranch. I wish I would have been able to go to McEvoy Ranch because olive oil is a huge part of my life. I am half Assyrian and half Italian so there isn’t a dish that touches the table without a little bit of the liquid gold.

The rest of my afternoon was filled with preparing media lists, writing a draft of the press release and driving with Jan to run errands in her beautiful Porsche Boxster. I had never been in a Porsche so it was a real treat to ride in one. My first car was a beat up yellow Dodge Aries with bright brown rust stains. My car looked like a two week old ripe banana and every car after that was used until I was 26 and bought my first brand new car which was a Kia Sephia. So luxury or sports cars were foreign territory to me and let me just say that when you are not used to going 0-60 mph in 5.6 seconds it is like taking Fred Flinstone out of his stone age car and zapping him into the Jetsons futuristic, utopia Space car. What a blast!

Jan and I had a serious case of the giggles that afternoon. We were like two giddy school girls trying to get homework done, but instead shared pages out of the diaries of our lives. Jan is a retired assignment desk gal who knows nothing less than the fast pace beat of a newsroom. She had spent her days chasing breaking news stories and now she was changing pace to dabble in a bit of the finer things in life. I love her energy and her passion for all things risky. There was nothing better than watching her on the move and then witnessing her slow down for some quality time with her husband, an award winning newsman. Jan reminded me of a little tinker bell, constantly buzzing about with glee and trying to make magic happen.

As the evening approached we decided to head back to the Sonoma Inn so that we could cover the PGA Tour event. The PGA knows how to throw a party! We were invited to film the event because one of the sponsors for the cooking show was a featured wine for the PGA Tour.

The crew filmed the event while John and I sampled all kinds of wine and noshed on a dozen different little finger foods. Generally, watching people eat is not my thing, but for some reason I could not stop watching John eat. There was just something very sensual about the way he would approach a bite of food as if welcoming it with his lips and then devouring it with his mouth. I was mesmerized. Thankfully, at one point Joel came by and asked us to join the rest of the crew outside for drinks. Otherwise, I would have kept finding reasons to want to feed John.