I'm getting excited about going to the Art & Soul "Mini" art retreat in Asilomar in April! I'm taking a 2-day nature journal class from LK Ludwig, and a class called Flourished Layers from Traci Bautista. It's going to be so much fun! I have to get busy and start making ATCs to trade - eek! It's a little scary as I don't know anyone else who's going and I don't really feel up to the level of what I see in the workshops. Actually it's really scary and intimidating! But I'm trying not to think about those feelings and concentrate on the anticipation of learning from all the other artists that will be there, and all the new friends I'll make.
I was looking at the classes for the Art & Soul in Hampton in May. I'm not going, but if I were, I don't know how I would decide on what classes to take! There are so many fantastic classes! I'm hoping I'll be able to go to the one in Oregon in the fall, but it's too early to know.
Art Unraveled in Phoenix (August 3-10) will be opening registration later this week. I'm sure I'm going to go since it's only about a 5 or 6-hour drive from here, but I'm not sure for how many days. I'd like to be there all week! Again, there are so many great classes, it's going to be hard to decide what classes to register for.
I just got LK Ludwig's book about Nature Journaling, and I plan to read through it as carefully as possible before the retreat.
Meanwhile, I had better get back to cutting paper for my class on Wednesday, or I won't be getting much sleep Tuesday night!
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
What a busy week!
I realized I haven't posted in a loooong time, so now I'm overdoing it as usual. This week has been very busy; Saturday I took a class with Kelly Kilmer (About Face) at The Stamp Addict. I was quite late for class because the night before I was at a friend's house designing cards for future classes and didn't get to bed till 3 AM. But it was a great class anyway!
Wednesday night a friend (Lisa) and I helped another friend (Melissa) with a card-making class for a women's group at The Rock church in Point Loma. We weren't sure how many people there would be, perhaps as many as 30; so we prepared for 40, just in case. We only had a short period of time to help them make all 5 cards, so we were lucky we had just under 20 people there. It was just the right amount of people. We barely made it in time, but it was fun and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The owner of The Stamp Addict donated all of the paper we used in the class so with the 3 of us donating other supplies and our time, it was a great thing all around. We hope to do it again somewhere else. When I remember to take pictures of the cards we made, I'll post them too.
Next week on Wednesday I'm teaching a card-making class at The Stamp Addict. It's called Not the Usual Sheepish Cards. You can see the information here: http://www.thestampaddict.com/2008_02/sample_sheepish.htm. There's a fourth card on my Flickr site, and we'll be making another card of which for some reason I have no picture. Anyway, I haven't even started cutting paper for the class yet, so that should keep me busy this weekend! Also my friend Melissa has a shoulder problem and is teaching a class on Tuesday so I will probably be helping her to cut paper for her class. Here is a link to her class information: http://www.thestampaddict.com/2008_02/sample_Hero.htm
She makes awesome cards, I recommend her classes!
Cheers!
Diane
Wednesday night a friend (Lisa) and I helped another friend (Melissa) with a card-making class for a women's group at The Rock church in Point Loma. We weren't sure how many people there would be, perhaps as many as 30; so we prepared for 40, just in case. We only had a short period of time to help them make all 5 cards, so we were lucky we had just under 20 people there. It was just the right amount of people. We barely made it in time, but it was fun and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The owner of The Stamp Addict donated all of the paper we used in the class so with the 3 of us donating other supplies and our time, it was a great thing all around. We hope to do it again somewhere else. When I remember to take pictures of the cards we made, I'll post them too.
Next week on Wednesday I'm teaching a card-making class at The Stamp Addict. It's called Not the Usual Sheepish Cards. You can see the information here: http://www.thestampaddict.com/2008_02/sample_sheepish.htm. There's a fourth card on my Flickr site, and we'll be making another card of which for some reason I have no picture. Anyway, I haven't even started cutting paper for the class yet, so that should keep me busy this weekend! Also my friend Melissa has a shoulder problem and is teaching a class on Tuesday so I will probably be helping her to cut paper for her class. Here is a link to her class information: http://www.thestampaddict.com/2008_02/sample_Hero.htm
She makes awesome cards, I recommend her classes!
Cheers!
Diane
Picture of China snows
This picture is of my husband's hometown, Hangzhou. More snow than ever! This picture is beautiful, but it's been a big disaster coming right before the [questionably named] Spring Festival, that started yesterday.
By the way, Happy New Year to you all!
PS. I got the photo from some news agency; sorry I don't remember which one.
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