It’s been a whirlwind of fun for me for the past few days. I celebrated my 60th birthday on Saturday. Actually I began celebrating on Friday with a dinner party at my friends David and Lee’s house. There was lots of food, drink and many friends to help me celebrate the big 60. It was an evening of incredible weather and we stayed outside in the backyard until after midnight! I love parties! I had a great time with everyone! Then on Saturday Amy had another ‘play day’ at Friends and Company for me and more of my friends. More food, more fun, loads of art and just another great time! I am a spoiled girl! I can’t thank them enough for making both parties so special.
Then it was off to TKU on Sunday morning at 5am! Ack! Doris and I headed south to Vancouver for the event. Teri Bangart is a rep for a large number of major manufacturers and she puts on TKU each year, bringing in the companies she represents for workshops and a vendor show. This is the third year I have attended this great event. We did 8 classes in 8 hours! One class right after the other, we stay in one room and the classes come to us! I will take pictures of the projects I completed and get them up here in the next few days. Such a great time talking with everyone about what’s new and what’s going on in their stores.
I spent Sunday night with an old friend while in Vancouver. So, as you can imagine I stayed up too late and did a bit more celebrating! It was fun to catch up though and as always we promise not to let so much time go by in the future without checking in on one another!
Home on Monday evening and then up at 5am to work at the polls for the primary elections. That was a 15.5 hour day and I was a bit dead to the world by the time I got home on Tuesday night. I think I am back on track now!
Last time I wrote about some of the books that Claire Hampton and I made while she was here on vacation. I did finally take the pictures and I’ve made a little slide show for you to enjoy. I loved the piano hinge book that I made, with all the dark red paper and the black distressing. I hope you enjoy it also. The other book is the crown book that was made by a number of us at Friends on another play day. I can’t wait to see the others again. We all concentrated on what we were doing in our own books that I doubt we remember what the others looked like. I continued to add buttons and buttons and more buttons to mine until I finally figured I had enough buttons! Really I stopped because I would have had to make ‘special’ rings to close my book if I didn’t! It was a very fun book to make and it might show up in a class soon. The third book is made of envelopes and loads of papers. Look for it soon!
My other news is just great also. I applied and was accepted to Ranger U for the October class. It is a juried application and there are only 24 seats. I feel fortunate to have been selected to attend. It’s three intense days of training on all of the products from Ranger, taught by Tim Holtz, Suze Weinberg and Claudine Helmuth. It is the first weekend in October at Ranger in Tinton FallsNew Jersey. I am going to try to see if I can get a day or two on either side to maybe get to NYC. We shall see. In the meantime sit back relax and enjoy the view from your window seat.
Congratulations on being accepted to Ranger University!!! You will have a blast. Love the book pics. I know you have tons of creativity left in your brain. Keep going girlfriend!
I will be signing up for your class on October 18th. Happy Birthday to you!!! Belated but sending you a big hug nevertheless. Thanks for hanging out with me on Tuesday at Friends and helping me match up papers for my book ;-) See you this Sunday. Can't wait to try out your new technique with the Cuttlebug. Maria
Posted by: Maria | 09/05/2008 at 06:49 PM