A Surprise!

I came home from work, settled into my chair and put my feet up for the evening and began to go through my endless pile of reading material. I opened this catalog ACACIA and there was one of my charms in an artist's jewelry design! I get such a thrill when I see one of my pieces in jewelry offered through a catalog. Very exciting and I never get tired of seeing how people use my charms! I will get it together tomorrow when I can write down the artist's name and page number of the necklace. Right now the catalog is in the studio, it's 34 degrees outside and I just do not want to go out there! SO THAT IS THAT and good night!

Looking down the driveway to my house of many colors on a very cold and snowy morning.
Jacob hanging out in the snow. Do you think he would put on a real coat? Of course not!
This little building painted in the czech color of capri blue and a sunny butter yellow is where I store my show things.
The sleeping garden where next summer's tomato plants will grow with a bit of luck.
A shot of my lovely purple and orange studio nestled in the snow.
Snow on the pampus grass at my driveway's end.
The weather here has been a surprise all winter and this weekend was no exception. I can not remember when we have had snow in March before and I have lived here a very long time! It is so pretty though.

Old signs never really die.......

This is what happened to my old gallery sign - it is now on my garden shed!

I hope Andrea doesn't mind but I thought this picture was so beautiful and peaceful; that I copied it from her blog into mine. It is a recent photo just last week of our surprise snow storm covering one of the lavender fields in Sequim. Makes me smell lavender while looking at the photo and rests my heart!

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.....