WE HAVE OUR FIRST WINNER!

OK - drumroll , please!

The winner of this silk scarf is:

SUE B ! She won it by leaving a comment on my blog. Stay tuned, because I expect to run another giveaway quite soon since it was so much fun!

Sue - please send me an email with your snail address. Artweardesign@Comcast.net Thanks

More on the Cruise...and other stuff

Things have been moving at warp speed around here lately. Happens every year - most of my shows are at the end of the year, including the Michigan Renaissance Festival which opened last weekend. But don't worry - there are still 6 more weekends to partake! I will probably write a post about what you can expect next week. That will still leave 5 weeks which is the time most people come anyway.

This year I am also gearing up to participate in an artist's co-operative at the Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi. The expected opening is October 1. More on that as it gets closer.

Last weekend my daughter was offered a job in Maryland. Naturally she wanted to check out the area first. Since it was last minute she couldn't get any of her friends to go. Not wanting her to undertake the 9 1/2 hr each way drive (with no stops!) alone, I volunteered to go with her. My husband took over my duties at the Renn Faire and we left at 4 AM - got to the place where the job was and due to circumstances beyond any one's control they had to rescind the offer. Now what? We had all these plans to explore - not really needed anymore - so I figured since we were in Maryland we should go out for a crab dinner. Found a place (not really tough there) and got to take out some of our aggression out on the crabs with the wooden mallet the restaurant gave us. After dinner we came home - arrived at 3:30 AM! Long way to go for crab. But I did learn 2 things : yes, I CAN be cooped up with my daughter for 24 hrs and not kill each other and occasionally I can do silly things like I did in my 20's!

But for the CRUISE NEWS! Anyone on the fence....PRINCESS IS HAVING A SALE!!!!!! YIPPEE!!!! And it applies to anyone who already booked! There will be round table discussions, how to sell on eBay, Digital photography, and fashion do's & don'ts classes, artist trunk show and special fashion show, not to mention all the great Caribbean ports we will be stopping at in the middle of February (it's already getting cold here) ! You may come knowing no one, but you will leave with many new friends! Like I have said before, this will be my third one and I can not wait! Any questions??? Feel free to contact me or go to the website for more info.

Last years crew - having a good time at the open bar cocktail party!

Artist Cruise- Come Along!

The last 2 years I have gone on a Princess cruise organized to feature wearable artists and patrons. Next years cruise happens in February and will go to St. Maarten, St Thomas, Grand Turks & Caicos and Princess Cay. There will be lots of great people to meet, classes to take and will feature great wearable art to buy! It is being organized by Helen Weichman aka Groundhog Blues on Ebay. She just put a website together telling you all you need to know......Princess is now offering down payments as low as $100 (normally $250) and the balance can be paid at any time before November 20. So, if you THINK you might be interested now is the time! I will be talking more and more about the cruise, but I wanted everyone to have the chance to take advantage of the low down payment. I think part of the fun I have on the cruise is dreaming about how wonderful it will be the whole time before. Imagine daily (FREE) room service, nightly gourmet dinners, nightly production live shows, entertainment of all sorts, movies under the stars, or just laying about the pool .... over here drink service....I will have another mai tai - I am not driving! So, my vacation starts way before I board ship!

Check it out : http://www.cruise.kztek.com/ and we can spend the next5 months or so dreaming together!

These pictures were our ship this year, the Ruby Princess which is the sister ship to the 2010 ship - the Emerald Princess. As luck would have it my parents are going on a cruise aboard the Emerald Princess in October, so I will report their findings!

Wordless Wednesday (at least I got the day right!)

Monday Quote

OK, I know it's not Monday. My only defense is that at this time of the year things start piling up each one screaming "ME FIRST!" I finally got all my orders out from Ann Arbor, the Renaissance Festival starts on August 22, I have an artist garage sale on August 28 and I am seriously considering an artists co-operative at a local mall. Whew. I will write in depth on all those, but here is a quote that serves me a lesson from time to time. It is one I wish I had known earlier in life, but now is better than never:

"How people treat you is their karma;
how you react is yours"

Wayne Dyer

Wordless Wednesday

I found this quote on another web site. It belongs to Jane Dunnewold and if you are a fiber art lover it is well worth a look. This the first thing on her opening page and it really speaks to me:

You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the world
to live more amply, with greater vision,
with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
You are here to enrich the world,
and you impoverish yourself
if you forget the errand.

-Woodrow Wilson