| Cindy P Gates: Paper and Glass |
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It's Always About Me!
Welcome to my webpage. I am a parent of two great kids, Sophie (who is married to a great guy, Mike) and Chris (and our daughter-in-law, Rebecca), a wife (married to Bill Gates), an artist, a writer, a collector of Mike Piazza rookie cards and vintage buttons, a voracious reader, a mother of two pups, a Dodger fan, an altered book enthusiast, a photographer, and a life long learner.
Education
B.A. Biology- U.C. San Diego
M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction- Chapman University
California Teaching Credential- Multiple Subjects, Art
Favorite Songs
Wild Horses
Sunday Bloody Sunday
When A Man Loves A Woman
I Can't Make You Love Me
Magnificent
Desperado
Amazing Grace
Bubba O'Reilly
Hallelujah
Bands
The Boss
U2
Blake Shelton
The Who
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull
Books
Crossing To Safety and anything Stegner
Mistress of Spices
Life of Pi
The Thirteenth Tale
Goodnight Moon
The Dark Materials Trilogy
Peace Like a River
Out Stealing Horses
Olive Kitteridge
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Leviathan
Anything Zuzak
The Orphan Master's Son
Cutting for Stone
The Fault in Our Stars
Pachinko
Food
Anything that someone else makes
Motto
I'm doing the best I can.
Below are some of my art pieces and a picture of my dogs, Skye on the left and Luna on the right. Skye lives in dog heaven now. The leaves are a combination of photography and Prismacolor. The book is a piece I donated to the Monterey Museum Miniatures Show. It had Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" in it. I took the picture of the flower in Hawaii on a crazy, rainy day. I made the family stop the car because I thought they were so beautiful. The fourth picture is a page out of one of my altered books, and the chairs were at the Georis tasting room in Carmel Valley. The leaf at the top of the page is from a picture I took in Rhode Island on a rainy, wet day. I used drawing and the computer to embellish my photo. It has become my avatar on many of my web sites.
