Hi and Welcome Back!

I wasn't planning to bring the blog back to life, but some things just HAVE TO be recorded and I'm so used to recording them on my blog that I decided to open it up again. Not only have a closed my blog, I was also preparing to sell most of my supplies and close the little studio, planing never to play art again. Thankfully, a "Wingkeeper" flew from Texas and saved me. She brought smiles, enthusiasm, understanding, kindness, knowledge and gifts. Look at the aprons! This is the first and the last time you'll see me in it. It belongs on a wall as a decoration, and is not meant to be splattered with paint (like she did).

We spent two days at workshops organized by very fabulous Cindy in Los Gatos, CA. Not only did she enable us to take classes with great teachers, she also took care that we have anything and everything we might wish for. It was worth going to just for the cookies and brownies she made...

Unfortunately, I didn't have luck with my cameras. All my iPhone photos got deleted, and the camera I took had wrong settings on... plus - I didn't bother to take too many of them. I was just in awe of being in presence of Judy Wise and Katie Kendrick that I really didn't want to waste time clicking the camera button too often. 

Both ladies are generous, sparkly, fun, warm, lovely and oh-so-talented! It was pure joy to watch them work. We had a chance to look (and touch) their journals, which was a very moving experience for me. As a fellow journaler I know how much of our feelings get mixed with the paints and paper and I could feel it from their pages. 

I loved every minute of it! It sparked back the creative fire. Now I plan to make something every day, fight the demons that tell me that it is not good enough or will never be good enough. It doesn't have to be. If I ever get back in the non-blogging, non-creating mood - would someone please come visit and talk some sense back into me?