happy Valentine's Day

You are one of my nicest thoughts.  Georgia O'Keefe

Valentine Party!

Valentines were made and ready!  Yesterday was my Valentine Party and thank goodness the snowstorm was not as bad as expected and everyone got here safe and sound.

Twenty-plus ladies arrived with their valentines to exchange, and their enthusiam to make more!

Lunch first (and I forgot to take pictures).  We had a Baked Potato Bar!  Toppings of Cheesy Broccolli, Chicken a la King, Chili, cheddar, colby, avocado slices, chopped tomato, chopped green onion, chopped green pepper, fresh mushrooms, black olives, spanish olives, sour cream, whipped butter and fresh limes to squeeze on.  Julie made dessert, as you see above.  Shortbread Hearts and Raspberry Swirl Mini Cheesecakes!  Yum!...and so pretty!

Angel's Valentines!  Beautiful Cookie Pops that she baked and decorated. 

A beautiful treat!

Then the paper began flying and we had an afternoon of making more valentines and creating fancy papers.

Lots of lively conversation going on...

and lots of laughs.  A warm remedy for a cold snowy day!

 Ooops.  picture sideways...but even Henri' got into the fun!

Pretty valentine flowers!

And wanted to show you the pretty banners that I bought from Creative Carmelina .  This one spells out WINTER. 

And this pretty snowflake one says SNOW.

Flowers reminding us of Spring...

...amid the SNOW.

And then everyone went home with their bagful of valentines.

It's Wednesday!

Today is my collage class and here is mine that I am working on.  I asked the class to look at a picture or a photograph that inspires emotion and love of color in them. 

I chose this photograph that I took in Ontario last summer, when Julie and I drove to pick up Brent from his extended stay at this wonderful fishing resort.  Always in love with the woods and love the beautiful blue waters of Canada, this one does it for me.  When working from a photograph, it helps me to take photos of both.  That helps me to see things I'm missing and need to add for the result that I want.

And here are the rest of my papers waiting to be used.

Beauty Shoppe Day

               Henri is not impressed with his Valentine necktie.

a Birthday Breakfast

Yesterday we all met at Julie's for a special breakfast to celebrate Angel's birthday. 

Along with a yummy breakfast, Julie made "French Breakfast Muffins".  They have nutmeg in the batter and after they are baked, you dip them in melted butter and cinnamon sugar.  The recipe says "these delightful cakes are as tasty as freshly made doughnuts" ..... and they sure are!  Happy Birthday again, Angel!

...and again from Wednesday

Here is my class, on Wednesday, making their sample transfer cards that I was telling you about in my post yesterday.

Little masterpieces!

It was a whirlwind of a time, but each time they do one and we go back over instructions, it'll be easier.

Fun!

Wednesday's class

packing tape

Yesterday, in my collage class, we practiced all kinds of transfers.  Packing tape transfers, gel medium transfers, matte medium transfers, polymer transfers.  I had them do them on pieces of mat board and write the procedures on the back to help remember what they did and how each one looked.

gel medium transfer

These are a couple of my samples and trying to post some of the ones the class did, but Blogger doesn't want me to this morning, so i will try later.