Tolentreasures

What a fun event!  Two full days of painting and creating and even a little cooking!  It was the first year for what is sure to become a yearly event! Hammered wire earrings. The beautiful scenery of Lake Chautaqua. Gelli plate printing! Of course, it will become another addiction. Some fun with sharpies and paper. And honestly, these people even allowed me in their kitchen. Take that, JWS! Beautiful weather! Lots of messy creativity! and Best of All... New friends made along the way!  And now for me,  back to painting and getting ready for the open house.  But first,  company again this weekend!  Mom and friends are coming for a  Sewing Retreat at  the unofficial Strate B & B. I can't wait!  We have been trying to plan this for several years  and  something always happens, Four days away  and it looks like a go this year!     ...

Looks all warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?  Soft and warm and cuddly?     In retrospect, everything I worked on yesterday had this look. Soft and pastel, fuzzy and warm, Even this painting, finished up in the AM, not my normal colors, but soft and pastel... Well, it didn't fit the mood of the day, believe me.   Hang on, because this is the brutal truth. I was mad. Mad at the World. When I get mad, I cry. Attempted to go to church. Barely holding it together, it was a bad decision.   Sometimes, I really believe that church attendance is not always a good choice.   And it wasn't.   I tried, quiet tears kept flowing....   until.... JWS looks at me and says, "If you didn't have Jesus in your heart right now, you would take off that high heel and drive it right through someone's forehead, wouldn't you?"   See, he gets me!   Slight chu...

While perusing through my pictures  this morning,  I found some things I hadn't shared.  This was a whim project after being at  Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse.   Most of the letters were found there,  some I had, some I made.  I think that I might make more.. it was fun!   Shipped off to Gracelyn and Garren's toy room!   I know that this is hard to see in the picture. This is an old display case that I have had around for years.  I had an old fur collar off an old wool coat that I laid in there first and then arranged all my pins, So many keepsakes in there. Alligator pins that my dad bought for me in Florida when I was little, A pin of my grandmothers, and one belonging to JWS' grandmother. My old Brownie and Girl Scout pins. A great-great aunt's pin, one made by a friend... Memories. I made these pillows for Gracelyn and Kenda...