Saturday, June 19, 2010

Time with Friends.


I'm playing catch up. This is my longest post ever, I'm sure. A few weeks ago I spent the weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake with 6 wonderful friends!
Sandy
Maija
Amy
Natalea
Vivian
and Jenny (no blog, but has a beautiful flickr site and a great etsy shop!
(and Jenny must have hid a lot -- I don't have pics of her! )

(photos by me and everyone above)

Our theme was "birds"
This is the house we rented:

Sandy made it so beautiful!

We shopped and were silly:
(Maija and me)
(me, Nat and Sandy)
(M is for mouse loving Maija)
(Vivian and Amy)
We made each other lots of mementos:
(i made the zipper pouch)
(Natalea made these necklaces for us -- mine is the "colours outside the lines")
(Nat made these peat pots too)
(Amy gave us little kits so we could make these nest pins!)

And we made awesome cool stuff (thank you Viv and Jenny for the tutorials):(Jenny taught us how to make these fabulous mobiles!)

(Vivian taught us how to needle felt)
(Amy made the bluebird)
(Amy made the big one and Jenny made the little one)
And we drew names for our trades (this is what I got from Nat -- it's already up in my kitchen!)
Thanks for beautiful memories girls! I miss you!

6 comments:

Irene said...

I love the necklaces. "pees when she laughs" what a hoot!

Unknown said...

I look back on it with a big smile on my face! I only wish it didn't go by so fast!

Hugs!
Sandy

Joanne Huffman said...

Few things are as wonderful as spending time with art friends. It looks like a great time and you all certainly made beautiful things.

Patti G. said...

MARTHA,
What a fabulous weekend for you and your girlfriends! Beautiful house that you rented, fun times shopping and all kinds of goodies galore!!!!!!!!! Friends are fab!
Love it all! So glad you were able to enjoy it all!
Hugs,Patti

Elizabeth said...

What a fabulous time you all had!! You all created some amazing pieces and beautiful memeories I am sure!!!It is such fun to gather with our art peeps, isn't it?!!!
Happy kidlet free summer!!!!

Lorrie Grainger Abdo said...

What a wonderful weekend! Looks like you had a great time. Lucky ladies!! I haven't talked with Joanne in a while. Are you coming to Kalamazoo this summer?