A free bowling ball from a friend of Don’s started it all. I purchased $40 worth of glass, cut it up in tiny chips and working from a photo of a sunset, spent 25 hours creating my masterpiece. Then spent $20 on a stand and had it altered (another $20). Now we’re enjoying our “free bowling ball”...looking good!!!
When you finish a project, that means you have to start a new one...so I purchased a new shower curtain for our guest bathroom at home, took photos of the butterflies, John, my friend Lori’s husband, used his skill saw and cut out 10 butterflies, 2 dragonflies and 3 bumblebees for me. I started my mosaic work and completed the critters with beaded bodies and fuzzy pipe cleaner antennas. I’ll add photos of the butterflies flying on the bathroom wall when we get home...flying towards the new shower curtain.
The last couple of weeks in Feb were frantic...Hiking continued with beautiful Box Canyon 6 miler (about 45 miles from the park, the last 14 DIRT). Needed a little help from the guys for the “bouldering” section.
Our park hosted the Cal-Am Pickleball tournament (in which I played and did fairly well), which took lots of planning and practicing!!! And the same week we held our first Quilters, Carvers and Creative Crafters Showcase a very successful show and sale. In addition to selling my weaving, I designed all the brochures, publicity and advertising material.
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Wearing my hand-dyed, handwoven silk vest. Photo by
friend Marge Raudstein. |
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| Friend Linda's Mosaic work including a grey Timber Wolf |
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| Hiking friend Hans' beautiful photos in hand-made frames |
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| Gourdes were the hit of the show, she sold about 40... |
Somehow our “annual ladies day out” with a group of friends did take place and we had a fabulous lunch and tour of the Rigley Mansion in Phoenix. Welcome > Wrigley Mansion
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| Roe, Anne, Phyllis, Coleen (Marge couldn't make it) |
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| After a wonderful lunch and tour we wandered the grounds |
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which were stunning and meticulously maintained
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Looking up provided the most interesting views
for me during the inside tour... |
Weather in AZ cooler than normal this season and we had snow on the Superstitions for 2 days when it actually snowed here in the park for a few hours on Craft Show day which increased our “indoor” attendance. See you in March
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| West end of the Superstition Mountains (where we often hike). |
I like it very much and have absolutely NO advice. Glad to read your posts again.
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