A Little Studio Crawl

One evening after supper, I wandered through some of the studios. Quite a few people opt to work well into the night -- the quilters were especially busy, 

Most quilters were working on 'story quilts, many with elaborate borders. This one below is awaiting its story...

It's a wonderful studio with great big design walls.

And plenty of room to spread out.

The next studio was not as busy -- just one or two weavers, working on their projects.

In the next group of studios, some potters were still at work . . .

                                                           The joy of creating things . . . 

The jewelry-making instructor showed a ring he'd just completed

And bracelets he'd made . . .

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His hatband was decorated with miniatures of the tools of his trade

Things To Do While Waiting . . .

Almost sixty years ago, when I was a Girl Scout, I made a pomander by sticking whole cloves in an apple. It took forever and made my fingers sore, as I covered the entire surface so that not a speck of red could be seen. And the pomander -- a Christmas gift for my mother -- hung in her closet for years -- the apple shrinking and drying and the cloves smelling wonderful.

About twenty years ago, I thought it might be nice to repeat the endeavor, possibly using oranges or tangerines as I'd seen done in a magazine somewhere --  some nice patterns and you don't have to cover the entire surface.

So I ordered a pound of whole cloves. And that's as far as I got.  The cloves have been sitting in a jar on a shelf all that time. (They keep very well.)

But while finding things to occupy my time while waiting to hear from Herself -- ironing,  rearranging the living room to get ready for the Christmas tree, cleaning out the refrigerator -- I was about to throw out (well, give to the chickens) some clementines that weren't very good -- not rotten, just a bit dry -- and suddenly I thought of those cloves.

Things to do while waiting. . .