Sometimes you just need to get out of your routine - or rut - and do something different to stimulate your creative side. I think we can all easily slip right into the rut of looking at the same things, doing the same things, making the same things and then wonder why we are bored. Why wouldn't we be bored? We never see anything that excites us! Or in my case, you slip into the rut of never having time to sew and before you know it, you don't have time to sew or design because you don't make the time, there's too many other things you've gotten used to doing.
So, two friends of mine talked me into attending Kaye England's College for shop owners in Fort Meyer's Florida week before last. Jill Reicks has been attending for years, telling me I should be going for years and of course I never had the time. Karen Montgomery decided she was running away to Kaye's College this year and I was running with her. So we did. Yup, I chucked it all - the store, the grandbabies, you name it, I chucked it and ran away with Karen and Jill. Should have done it years ago!
First I had to gather up all my supplies and the list was loooooooonnnnnnnngggggg, Jim neatly packed some of my fabric in with my machine that was shipped. 40-50 YARDS! What didn't fit in here, went in my suitcase with rulers, needles, threads, rotary cutting mat, scrapbooking supplies (?), journaling supplies (?), and I still had to fit clothes!
This is what was in my suitcase. I did manage to get clothes in there and have it weigh 48.5 pounds!
All this stuff belongs to Therese Gansen (Jill's daughter) and I . I could look window and watch the boats go by . . . .
When I turned around, this was the rest of the room. There were 42 lucky people here this time.
Mine and Karen's stash under the table.
I arrived at 10:30 and was sewing by 5. Kaye had a mystery project & a pizza party for us that first night.
This is all I'm going to show you of the mystery. If I show you anything else, it won't be a mystery will it? Look for this on the class schedule this spring. (First I have to finish it or borrow Karen's sample!)
All this and it was just the first night! Next post I'll share some of the projects and inspirations from the wonderfully inspiring week I spent out of my rut but here's a teaser of the view off our balcony . . . . .
Till next time.
So, two friends of mine talked me into attending Kaye England's College for shop owners in Fort Meyer's Florida week before last. Jill Reicks has been attending for years, telling me I should be going for years and of course I never had the time. Karen Montgomery decided she was running away to Kaye's College this year and I was running with her. So we did. Yup, I chucked it all - the store, the grandbabies, you name it, I chucked it and ran away with Karen and Jill. Should have done it years ago!
This is what was in my suitcase. I did manage to get clothes in there and have it weigh 48.5 pounds!
When I turned around, this was the rest of the room. There were 42 lucky people here this time.
Mine and Karen's stash under the table.
I arrived at 10:30 and was sewing by 5. Kaye had a mystery project & a pizza party for us that first night.
This is all I'm going to show you of the mystery. If I show you anything else, it won't be a mystery will it? Look for this on the class schedule this spring. (First I have to finish it or borrow Karen's sample!)
All this and it was just the first night! Next post I'll share some of the projects and inspirations from the wonderfully inspiring week I spent out of my rut but here's a teaser of the view off our balcony . . . . .
Till next time.
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