Fine Day with Friends

Oh my! What could be better than an outing with friends. Rosemary and Char got us to go to the Stamp Art Shoppe in Roseville on Saturday. So, with Bobbi, Pat , Cat and Pam, we had a good time laughing and sharing. Rosemary made a paper apron that was hanging in the shop. There was a contest that day, with three contestants. Each was given a cake box full of assorted supplies and their challenge was to make something using everything in the box and the box itself. They had no idea what was inside when they got it, and they were timed. They worked furiously and each one came up with a truly unique concept and did the job. Awesome. I'm quite sure I could not work in front of a crowd with a challenge like that, and a time clock ticking away.

While that was going on, I was shopping. I bought some of the distress inks in bottles with daubers on top. And a few more rubber stamps I could not resist. Each of us came home with a few new things for our art.

Sunday I made two batches of post cards, each one using the daubers and a new stamp. Some of you will be seeing them showing up in your mail boxes soon.

Monday a whole bunch of seniors showed up at the Sr. Center to hang the art show. we had to construct the structures to hang them on. The man putting it on is John Carruthers. He got a city grant to do this. He also did the designing of the structures, and precut and predrilled them, so we only needed to assemble them. then figure out how to hang so many paintings. Hanging on the front was not too hard, although it was a bit tricky. But hanging on the reverse side without knocking the front ones off was a huge challenge. It took us more than half a day without stopping to get the job done. Thank goodness enough people showed up to make it doable.

Today an old friend stopped by to say hello. He was in the area on a whirlwind tour. Dan is a singer/composer who had sung at my retirement party. I have several of his CDs and listen to them often. It was a total surprise to see him at my door, and my little dogs went crazy, now knowing who he is. He filled me in with the news of people we both know, and what is new in his life. Val (his wife) is working so could not make the trip. It was so wonderful to see him again. He is going next to Sacramento to record some music with the Anderson Gram duo. You are in for a treat if you can hear some of the music created by these wonderful people. Click on the links to hear some of it.