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fun evening at the PC.............

Those of you who came out last night for the first Mix and Mingle of the summer, you can tell we all had a great time...................look at those 3! ( Brenda don't kill me) 

We made 4th of july mobiles out of doilies, had lollipops that turned your tongue red, Cindy made the most wonderful dessert and we met up with some new and old friends.............

I was so busy in the back room with the make and takes I did not get any pictures of everyone in the front of the store.......I apologize and next month I will try and do better!

And then we have this little cutie with her mom.  This is Evangeline ( I hope I spelled that correct)  She was so patient to wait until everyone left to make her own mobile.  She did a great job and was so proud.
Is that not the cutest little skirt she had on.  Of course her Mom the talented seamstress Jemellia made it!  Darling as usual..............

 I guess these pictures tell the store of the fun we all enjoyed last night at the Mix and Mingle.....

If you were unable to attend we will have the next one on Tuesday evening July 26. Mark your calendars and hope to see you then.

They are all behaving nice in this one!

Oh Happy Day to all!

 

Where Women Create............

Now that June is almost history and my traveling has come to a halt for a while, I am setting my goal for the month of July to clean and create  my studio to a more user friendly room..............I will hopefully share some before and after photos!  I have been thinking of doing this for a while and after reading these wonderful magazines and looking through them I knew it was something I wanted to accomplish this summer. 

And it has been a while since I have had time to create.  So once I get my room in order I will be ready to start creating once again and hopefully come up  with some new projects and new ideas for my upcoming classes.  So be patient and we will see how the month of July pans out!

 

REMEMBER tomorrow evening all of you gals in Oklahoma City...........

Mix and Mingle at the Paper Crown  6-8:00

20% off your entire purchase

Make and Take

Refreshments

 

Hope to see you all.................should be a fun evening!  Cindy has had boxes of NEW merchandise come in and you will love what she has ordered!

Have a great day!

Mix & Mingle at the Paper Crown

Just reminding all you gals in the Oklahoma City metro area that we will have our first Mix and Mingle of the summer this coming tuesday evening June 28 from 6-8 at the Paper Crown in the Casady Square shopping center.  We are so excited to see you all and have a great evening planned.  You can shop and receive 20% off your entire purchase, we will be making a 4th of July make and take and as always delicious refreshments.  So grab your friends and make it a girls night out!  See you tuesday evening!

 

Anyone who has come to the Paper Crown knows the gal in the middle.  Franc!  Franc has worked at the Paper Crown for several years. Everybody loves Franc.  She always has a smile and always helpful at the PC.  This past week she started her new job at the Hobby Lobby Headquarters here in Oklahoma City! She wanted to let you all know that she will still be hanging around when she can and not to forget all the fun times we have had over the years.  We will all miss her but wish her all the best on this new adventure in her life!  

colorado kids..............

 

 

 

This is our son Adam and his girlfriend Caryn.  Adam has been a big rock climber for several years.  It was one of the main reasons he moved to Colorado after he graduated from law school!  He met Caryn through the climbing world and friends who climb.  We got to spend a little time with them last week while we where in Colorado Springs.... they gave us this Climbing Magazine  and guess who was featured? Caryn!  

This is a picture of her hanging off this rock...................she has become a great climber, it is a great picture, but it still scares me!

And this article was written by Adam in the same magazine.

 Anyway I thought you might like to see what those two are up to.  We enjoyed our short time with them............

I have shown you all this picture before, but I just thought you would enjoy seeing Adam climbing and what they do in their spare time while living in Colorado.

And then Adam came back to see us for a few hours before we left Colorado for Father's Day! 

And look who he brought with him?  Sam on the right and the new edition to the family is Wyatt on the left.............Wyatt is Caryn's dog!   They are certainly a great mixture of who knows what!

 

Some of you might know who this is................if you don't , her name is Reilley Rankin.  We met Reilley last week while we were sitting around one morning watching the deer and golfers on our deck.  She was so sweet and friendly.  At first we did not know who she was and what she was doing at the Broadmoor, but when she stopped by later on one afternoon we found out that she was on the LPGA tour and practicing for the US Open at the Broadmoor.  She was so much fun to talk with and to find out how she has become a professional golfer.  I know she probably got tired of  us asking her so many questions, but she was so gracious to answer anything we asked her.  She signed my hat and gave all the guys signed golf balls and towels with her monogram.  So look for her in a couple of weeks if you watch the Women's US Open. Good luck Reilley we will all be watching and cheering you on!

Here she is signing my hat.

 

That's it for now!

I'm back............

This is what we looked at this past week.  The scene from our room in Colorado Springs!  My husband had a business trip, plus we got to see our son and his girlfriend.  More on them in another post!

If you have ever been to Colorado Springs you know how beautiful it is. The place we stayed was the Broadmoor!  Need I say more if you are familiar with this amazing place.  We were lucky enough to stay in the Cottages.  They are off the main site and on one of the 3 golf courses.  In fact our room over looked the 18th hole and the sight of the 2011 US Women's Open. ( And another post on one of the players)  The grounds of this place are amazing.

Can you believe we looked at this everyday............incredible!

This was  daily............in front of our cottage 

 This guy was outside our window one morning...............

We got to relax, play golf, visit the spa, eat good food and visit with friends.  To say all this, we had a wonderful time in a beautiful setting and gorgeous weather.

Wow!  And today I have to catch up on so much, but I just wanted to let you know that I have so many more pictures I want to share with you.  So stop back by either today or tomorrow for more pictures of the many faces we saw last week.

 

Happy WINDY monday morning in June here in Oklahoma...............

Christy's on line class................

I have never taken an online class until  recently.  I decided after everyone taking Christy Tomlinson's class back in the winter and everyone loved it, I thought it sounded  like fun , so I signed up!  If you are familiar with her work you will know that she has a long list of videos on" how to techniques".  I am still watching them and learning so much.  I am not any where close to finishing them all but I have started my " She has 3 Hearts journal".  Thought I would show you a few pages of my uncompleted work.

I just thought I would share these with you.  If you are taking this class I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am.  I could doodle, paint and make a mess on paper all day longgggggggggggggg!  If you are wondering about the turquoise cross with the heart............. I just thought it would add a little extra whatever to each of the pages .  I just like the look and thought it would be fun.

Thanks Christy for inspiring us all.

Mix and Mingle .......................

My electricity went out when I posted the last post and of all things when I went back to redo the post I forgot the date for the first Mix and Mingle.............way to start out on a monday!

 

 

Tuesday June 28       6-8

Mix and Mingle.................

It's summertime and you know what that means.......

 

Mix and Mingle at the Paper Crown

 

6-8:00 pm

 

Remember you will receive 20% off your entire purchase, make and takes and always refreshments!

And mark your calendars for the next two months for Tuesday July 26 and Tuesday August 30.

If it has been a while since you were in the store it is full of new merchandise.  That 20% will come in handy.  Grab your friends and have a girls night out.  See you on June 28!

 

 

Wrapping up the Gilded Life weekend in this post...........

The entire weekend was perfect down to the food of course!  We were all privileged to have Chef Sarah Keenan and her side kick Jenny ( I did not get a picture of Jenny) from California to cook and spoil us all weekend with the most delicious meals. If you want to read more about Sarah she is in the latest  "Where Women Cook" magazine.

And this gal was the most popular of all, Brandy, we all loved her..............she had a room off to the side where you could have a massage!  They thought of everything I tell you.  If you got stressed about working on your project and you had a kink in your neck or knots building up, well Brandy was there to help out.  And let me tell you she was fantastic.  Thanks Brandy!

 

Now I am going to show you a few photos of Shea and Debbie's Studio.  Let me first tell you that the pictures don't even come close to how wonderful this room is.  It is something you had to see to even believe how incredible it is and was......if you know what I mean.

 it was huge and loaded with everything you could ever imagine to work on any kind of project.........

 


Well I think I have covered just a little of how wonderful this event was and how grateful I was to experience this Gilded Life Event!  The sad news is if you have not heard, that this was the last event held in the " Church".  On monday the movers came to the church to start packing up for the move back to California!  We all could not even imagine leaving this place, but knowing Shea and Debbie they will have more of these incredible events in one of the most beautiful places on the west coast............if you have never been to the Pacific Coast around Newport Beach and Laguna Beach you are in for some wonderful times ahead!  Good luck to them and we will all be patiently waiting to hear when the next event will be happening!

Wow.......nothing like taking a week long post and I only showed a small portion of pictures that I took.  I'm finished now and hopefully I can get some creative work done to show you this week.

 

Happy lazy sunday afternoon.................  

back to the " Church" and gilded girl's weekend.................

 

On Saturday the first project we made was this sweet little bird box.  This was the instructors because mine is not finished yet.  I will post a picture when mind is finished.  Anyway we all had fun making this cute project and let me tell you the glitter was flying all over that place.  Our instructor for this was class was the sweet and talented Lesa Daily.

She had her hands full and the patience to keep this group of gals under control.

And her darling assistant was Melissa.  I think she has the prettiest brown eyes and skin......don't you agree?

Thanks Lesa and Melissa for taking out the time to teach this wonderful class.  I know how much time it takes to get things ready for classes and this one was one of those.

The class project on Sunday was this beautiful bracelet watch that Shea taught!  We learned how to make our own chain out of wire.  Some of the jewels that we added are ones that we brought.  She told us that we could add what we wanted, but for the most part the crystal beads, pearls were all in the kits. We all finished but it did take up the full day on Sunday.............

 Over the weekend you had the same table mates the entire time.  I want you to meet Emily!  She put up with the 5 of us.  I know she probably thought we were all crazy most of the time but we enjoyed having her sit with all of the Oklahoma City girls.  She was quiet and so sweet.  She is also very talented.  She makes jewelry and has been in some of  the Somerset Studio Jewelry magazines.  In fact she gave each one of us at our table a piece of her jewelry!

They are made out of clay and then baked.  They are so much more detailed and lovely in person.  Sorry this picture does not show the beautiful details.  Anyway I wanted you to all meet our new friend Emily!

Here she is with her bracelet.  She was the first one out of 50 gals to finish first!

A few more shots of the inside of the church.  This is looking down from Shea and Debbies Studio.    Saturday night was vendors night and some of the artist brought their goods to sell.  Oh what talent was in that room!

 

Remember when I posted a week or so ago about the little pink dresses, well I baked those for each of the girls at the event.

Up in the studio they had it set up for us to do a make and take. Franc and I are all ready with glue gun in hand..............  The Fiskar company provided us with making a flower pin out of fabric and embelishments.  Fiskar also gave each attendee 3 pair of fiskar scissors.  Wow!  What a great company and I know any of you who do crafts, sewing or whatever all own a pair of fiskar scissors...........we love Fiskar!

Nancy , Glenda and Emily doing the make and take............

Robin and Cindy are really getting into the make and take............you go girls!

To the right of me is Cheryl and Teresa from Duncan Oklahoma...........!

That is all for today...............I still have more to come!

 

Enjoy your saturday...............I am headed out to walk and then head to a wedding reception this afternoon for my nephew and his new bride............