Lesley Venable (and Mr. Lesley)

Lesley and Tom arrived early Friday evening. They got stuck in a little bit of traffic, so they were happy to finally get here. After drinks, dinner and chit chat, we got them settled into the camper (now dubbed "the nest" by Tom). Tom gifted Jeff this t-shirt that says Mr. Lemoncholy art husband. how cool is that? both of the guys wore their tshirts the next morning to help us set up for Handmade Faire.

We got up quite early to make the hour drive to Medford and begin setting up for the show. Right out of the gate it was a hot one. After getting set up, Jeff headed back home for Tucker duty. Lesley's booth was very close to me, so we did a lot of visiting, as unfortunately, the weather did not encourage many people to come on out! it was just way too hot. but we made the most of it, lots of laughing, visiting, walking around and eating. we spent a lot of time watching the male psychic. he was quite interesting to watch.







after the show, we headed back towards my neck of the woods to have dinner at a yummy seafood restaurant. we took a leisurely stroll around the marina and watched the boats for a few. we were all still a bit "warm" from the day!

On Sunday, Lesley taught her angel class. we had a great time. Lesley is a wonderful teacher and shared a lot of tips, resources and materials with us. we worked with a couple of products that i wasn't familiar with, so that was cool to learn how to use them.


On Monday, I decided to show Lesley how to do some of my snippet sewing (a class i taught last year at Art-is). so we spent the day sewing while Tom cooked us a delicious dinner of homemade focaccia bread, beef stroganoff and chocolate mousse.




(some pages i sewed)

this was a little dress that Lesley bought at Handmade Faire and i asked her if could alter it with some of my sewing.

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after dinner, we went for a walk along the dog beach. it was a beautiful evening with a lovely breeze. very peaceful and quiet.





we finished off the evening with Lesley teaching me how to do some molding and creating some bezels using an epoxy putty.
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here is my angel that i made in class.

thank you Lesley and Tom for a wonderful weekend and all you shared with us.

flea market friday - join in!

don't forget that tomorrow is flea market friday. if you'd like to play, just take some photos of something(s) that you got at the flea market, antique or thrift store. i'd love to see what you have found. make sure you leave a comment and that  either your blog addy is linkable or let us know how to get to your blog.

you can also just follow mr. linky (below) which will take you to a page where you can enter your blog address, the name of your blog and then choose an image that will automatically show up in this post. 

 

Crescendoh

This week i am one of the guest curators on Crescendoh.com . my post will be about half way down the page. I got to share my story of "Art Saves". also every day under my story, will be 3 links taking you to other blogs that for one reason or another, i found to be inspiring. i hope you'll stop by!

A re introduction

I am excited to announce that the revamping of my website is finally complete!  there are a few technical glitches here and there, but we are working on them. In Feb. after Kirby (my sweet golden retriever) past away, I started feeling overwhelmed by all my obligations and one of them was my website. it was too much  to try and sell off the website and etsy at the same time. i just couldn't keep up with it. i was finding all the work of listing, photographing, etc. to be to much. i decided i wanted my website to be more informational and directive (links to my blog, etsy, etc.) somewhere along the way, i met online, Myrna, of Foxglove Tonic. We started talking about this and that and somehow we ended up in  a bartering agreement with her helping me with my website in exchange for a necklace using some of her cherished pieces (i think i got the better end of the deal personally!)  I am so grateful for all the work she has done for me, considering i am not all that technical and the website has been something of a burden, something hanging over my neck to tackle. i also got a new template from Avalon Rose which is more my style.

so when you have a second, stop on by to see the new look.

http://www.lemoncholys.com/

next up, reopening my etsy shoppe and adding in some goodies!

flea market friday - join in!

Today was a busy day and i only had a few minutes to walk around the flea market before i needed to be home to teach a soldering class. i decided i would only go down the first 2 rows and then i needed to head home. Well, at the end of the first row, i hit the best vendor. i got gobs of jewelry, 30 religious medallions (each one is different!) and lots of really old, beautiful lace. now don't hate me when i tell you that all this was only $30!

I'm going to start doing post every friday on flea market goodies, so if you'd like to join in on Flea Market Friday and show us goodies that you have gotten at the flea market, thrift or antique store, that'd be great! just leave a comment with your blog addy so we can come take a look at your post.