A Treat to See

This is my friend Sue, and the quilt she made and hand quilted. She had it at the show while working for Pam at Treasures of the Gypsy. It's a beauty and Sue is very talented. I could not even begin to sew like that. In fact, I can not follow a pattern much to my poor Aunt Gertie's chagrin who tried to teach me to sew in high school. Wish I had mastered it. Hidden behind the quilt is Phil.

Puyallup

The photo with the pink accents is my friend across the aisle, Jane's booth. She does polyform clay jewelry and designs her own sewing patterns. Her employee was Sara and her birthday was yesterday. I began singing Happy Birthday to her and she said I had a lovely voice! Ha! I told her I am always singing, loudly everywhere! The other shot is a photo of my booth and this year I received lots of compliments on the wool banners I made. I need to make something else as I think that I have done up at least 4 Wynwoods banners! Since I am doing at least two yarn shows this spring and summer in Portland, I think that I had better make one that says, YARN! Good thing I traded for new colors over the weekend. Yum! New wool!

Some pictures from the Puyallup Sew Expo show at the fairgrounds. Too bad I missed taking snow pictures!

I am down in this computer room in the hotel amongst a small wedding happening down the hall and military boys loitering about with girlfriends here and there. Funny, I remember doing this many eons ago when I was much younger but THAT is a story for another time. The show today was great and I picked up a " rock " made by this fellow vendor out of felted wool. I immediately started to embellish it with beads and more between customers. A photograph will follow when I get home and can use my own computer which is a Mac and not this silly Dell although the key board makes me feel like I am typing on a typewriter from the 1960's. The keys even feel like the old typewriters under my fingertips and the only real difference is that I can automatically erase mistakes! Hmmm.....

It snowed! It was really snowing last night in PT and we did not see any snow happening here in Tacoma until this morning we when we woke up at 5:30 am!! Way too early if you ask me. We were a bit worried about getting to the show today if the roads were icy but everything was fine. I almost forgot that this place is the big city and there would be enough traffic and de-icer on the roads to clear them! Wow! Customers were terrific today, all excited about the projects they are or will be working on and they were delighted with our selection of beads! It is so fun to be at a show when customers are like friends and enjoying themselves!

I am in Tacoma after spending the last four hours setting up my booth at the Sew Expo show. We had to unload the car in oouring rain and on the way here we went through a major sleet/rain/hail/snow shower. It was very difficult to see the road! Now, Andrea calls and says that it is snowing in Port Townsend! Argh ... I am jealous! Don't get me wrong though ... I do NOT want it to snow or ice here as I need to leave the hotel by 7am to get to the show. It opens to the public at 8:30 am! Sheesh ... these people who sew are early risers. Wish me luck, that it is busy and that we have fun and that I do not spend too much!

I had to go into the shop tonight on this dreary cold, drizzly night to pick out more merchandise to take to my show this weekend. It is always a challenge to figure out what I should take. Will this sell? Do they want that? Anyhow, after spending over an hour doing all this; on the way home on the bluffs along Water Street, I thought I saw a white plastic bag fly up into a small tree perched precariously midway down the bluff. But when I looked into that tree; it was a white owl! How amazing was that? I was and still remain very excited. It must be a good omen! Wish I had a photo to share but I am so pleased I saw it!

Right now it is just pouring outside and it is getting late so off to bed with me and a lovely new people magazine! G'night!

Saw this on another blog and I really like it!