Winter season starts right after Christmas and is so busy in January and February that it’s hard to find time to sit and blog. I’ve been teaching weaving every week; after my first group of students finished their three initial projects they wanted to continue so it looks like weaving will be a weekly group. Everyone is having lots of fun. This woman just finished her first band.
Bob has been busy as well. He spent much of last month building a beautiful bedside dresser and we both love it. He’s so talented. This is his own original design.
Our 19th wedding anniversary was February 9 and we celebrated the week before by taking a Segway tour of Scottsdale, AZ. Neither of us had ever been on a Segway and it was so much fun. It’s a great way to see the area, too.
All February I’ve been taking classes to learn how to do rosemaling, a Norwegian style of painting. My plan is to paint a cradle loom with rosemaling which is the traditional decoration for this type of loom. Hopefully I’ll have something to show next time I blog but right now I’m focusing on the preparation work of painting the background, which is very time consuming.
While Bob was in a couple of school plays growing up, I never had the nerve to get up on stage. I must be going through a second childhood, though, because I had fun performing in the park’s annual variety show last week. Bob did, too, which made it all the better! Bob and I were in the harmonica group and I was in the show chorus and women’s chorus as well. The theme was cowboys and we did two nights of shows to a packed house of almost 800 people.
This week we will be performing in the Mardi Gras parade with the harmonica group. It’s hard to believe that in six weeks we’ll be heading east again.
