Class!

I took a design class, I am so tired of making pendants and then just hanging them on a chain, I wanted to do more with my jewelry pieces! Colleen over at http://www.beadmetaler.blogspot.com/ offered a class on how to design a necklace. Here is my finished piece! I learned how to make "stories" with other pieces and link them together to form a unique necklace, and it is not symetrical, like I always work in. Yeah, had to crawl out of the box to make this one!

Pretty cool!

Art and Soul

Wow, what a whirlwind 3 days! We checked in monday night, I stayed at the Paris and Christy stayed at Bally's. We ate our meals at Paris and we shopped and had classes at Bally's, it was fun and we got a lot of exercise from walking back and forth! Tuesday morning we ate crepes at The Creperie, I had the suzette, orange slices and cream, it was yummy, christy had the neopoliton, various fruits and cream.

Tuesday 10:00 am found us in class with Julie Haymaker Thompson http://www.juliehaymaker.com/
What a fun and informative teacher she was, had all supplies ready for us and had instructions, she demonstrated and then set us off to work! If we had questions, we asked but it was fun to have a purpose and have the guidelines of what to do and what we would leave with. I say all this because wednesdays class was not like this at all and it was a horrible mess.

Here is my creation from Julie's class, the class named her Tiffany because of the blue color I got when I painted her and she is a little on the elegant side, like a Tiffany Jewelry box!

Her full name: "Tiffany Buys A Fish"

I still have to add more beads under her skirt as I did not bring enough to class, they will be on the white half circles, I have one already there! Her little crank turns and plays a music box with the tune of  It's a small world! I just love her to pieces!!

Tuesday night after class Christy and I had dinner at Le Provencal, I ordered the Cheese Ravioli, oh my gosh it was amazing!! I will be trying to make that over on my cooking blog so check there in a few days!
Then we went to christys room to watch American Idol.

Wednesday morning we got up and ate in the Le Cafe, it was ok, nothing to write home about basic breakfast, eggs and bacon and french toast.
Our class was with Susan Lenart Kazmer, soon as we got in class she announced her stuff was on sale, everyone wanted to buy her work so that took about an hour to get all over with. I was not there to buy her stuff, I was there to learn to make my own stuff?? She had tools on a table she demonstrated the tools and everyone was all gaga about them and asked where do we buy them, she said on her website for a lot more money then if you searced the tools on your own. So she said go cut and sand copper, bronze and silver pieces, so that is what we did for the rest of the class. My pieces have nothing to do with the bracelet we were supposed to make in class, see for yourself:

I had to connect my things the only way I knew how since she never told us how to attach stuff, I was so frustrated because even when I tried to ask for help she was so busy tending to people who purchased from her (the lady who bought a 1200.00 bracelet got lots of attention) or her groupies that could not stop drooling over her, that regular students had no chance to even speak to her. Christy and I decided to leave at 4:30 even though class did not end till 5:30, we knew nothing was going to change in the last hour.

Big fat disappointment! But it is a live and learn process, Christy and I have taken many many classes from quilting to scrapbooking, altered art to jewelry making. We have experienced many teachers and this woman was by far the worst we have ever come across!!

So after class Christy and I hopped on the monorail and met Tanya over at the Hilton and watched the Pink Floyd tribute band, see previous post! All in all we had a great time hanging out and being sisters again, it has been a long time. We will be together in April when we travel to San Diego for Scrapbook expo 2010!!

Shine on you crazy diamond...

Before I discuss Art and Soul, I have to tell you about Which one's Pink. I went to a show last night with Christy and Tanya, we went over to the Hilton to see a tribute band to Pink Floyd and we were all blown away by this band. It was an amazing show, the sound system was great, the band was great, the music was amazing, all the best songs were played. I posted a video of Shine on you crazy diamond, one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, it is only half the song and the guitar solo in the song is played by John Stack, who I must say is one of the hunkiest and amazing guitar players I have had the pleasure of watching perform!! Turn the lights down low and play the video, and watch as John takes you to the dark side of the moon with his guitar in hand.......

Neglect..

Sorry have not been neglecting you, just very busy with things to do and places to go...
I am leaving you for 2 days to attend Art and Soul here in Las Vegas, Christy (sister) is headed to town to join me.
Here are the classes we are taking:

I will be back with lots of photos of the fun we have!

See you all soon!

Charming group!

I would like to thank Tanya for the group photo, as I forgot my camera!!
Here is our charm exchange group, 9 plus me, 9 of the most talented women I ever met! Oh if you are wondering why we have hats, it was a tea party and we thought it would be fun to wear hats! Oh and this is for my mom, because she can't find her baby daughter in photos: I am in the center of the back row, wearing my Stevie Ray Vaughan hat!! Sorry I don't do flowery hats!!

Betty (center of photo on swing) was our hostess, she has an amazing home filled with art, it was like touring an art gallery!! I loved it!! Anyway her theme was flowers, here are the charms, my charm is in the upper left hand corner, each one had a circle with a different saying and then a flower hanging in the middle, mine says Peace, guess you would not have known that, right?

Next hostess is June and she has declared, because she is our Queen of England, that it shall be themed "Alice in Wonderland" and the charms are due in June!!

The Retreat photo!

Here is the photo of the scrappin-escapes weekend! I am the red head almost dead center! Mary is standing to the right of me! That was a fun weekend!

(you can click on it to make it larger)

Birthday fun!

Yesterday was Charlie's moms birthday, she did not want to go out but wanted me to cook, wow, that must mean I am getting better at cooking because 2 years ago it was, "Oh no don't cook, let's go out somewhere" hahaha.
She wanted my roast chicken, carrots and roasted asparagus.
It was a nice dinner, we got her the hangover movie, she had been wnating to see it and missed it at the movies, we also got her some elizabeth taylor perfume.
I baked a cake but let's not talk about it...I am no cake decorator!! But then agian I don't want to be because I do not want cake in this house, it is evil!