Brimfield Sightings and Best of Flea Market Style Feature

A couple weeks ago, I went to the Brimfield Flea Market which is only about an hour from our farm. I have been going to this flea market for years and I look forward to it. I go by myself so I can shop as fast or slow as I like. I usually go on Friday because that is the day the J&J Show opens. This show used to be the high end field of all the different fields that open during the week. Unfortunately it has gone a bit down hill and the quality isn't as great. But it is still a fun and inspiring day. After I run through J & J, I head over to a few of the other fields that opened earlier in the week but still have vendors present.

Here are some photos I snapped of things I liked - but didn't buy. Do you see a theme? I do - pattern, ceramics, and sheep. It's what I am into at this moment in time. 

When I got home that afternoon, I found the newest copy of Best of Flea Market Style Magazine in my mailbox. 

And you guessed it - there was our house! 

This is a publication by Meredith and is a twice yearly magazine that is only available at newstands or at Barnes and Noble, possibly Walmart and Target and places they sell magazines. The pictures were taken by Rikki Snyder for Country Home but since Meredith owns Country Home and owns the photos outright, they could write another article about our farmhouse. 

I'd say this house is getting a bit too much exposure! Oh well - I guess I'll take it and be thankful for it. Here is the end page of the magazine with a photo of our porch with my oil paintings. I like the quote from Thomas Edison. 

"To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

The next Brimfield Antique Show/Flea Market is July 11 to 16. Information here. People travel from all over the world to visit this show. I'm so lucky to live close. 

Hope you all are having a good week. 

Living the Country Life Feature + Thoughts

We have a feature in a magazine I had never heard of called Living the Country Life. It is published by Meredith (think Better Homes and Gardens). A while back, I heard from an editor who wanted me to fact check an article they wrote about my work. She said they were re-using photos from a Rikki Snyder shoot that Country Home did here. (Meredith owns Country Home too and they hired Rikki for the shoot and they own all the photos - Rikki has no right to them anymore and I never had any right to them because I was the homeowner.) I was glad that there would be more photos being used because Rikki gave them 100 and they only used a few in the original feature. 

I was quite thrilled with the opening spread - a photo with my oil paintings of animals on the porch wall and the stairwell wall with a kitten. 

When you agree to have your home photographed, you never really know where it will lead. Publishers are trying to get more and more out of a photo shoot they pay for as a frugality measure to stay in business. I get that because print publishing is not what it once was. Everyone is just struggling to stay in the game.

It also seems that there are more and more "new" magazine titles coming out that are newstand only. Sometimes they are called bookazines and they are very targeted to a small segment of readers. These publications are usually more expensive than the mainstream magazines - at least $10 and sometimes $15 and $20. When I get the chance to go to Barnes and Noble, which isn't often, I am always floored by the number of titles that I have never heard of. Most of them have little or no advertising - hence the higher cost. 

I am grateful for any publicity I get because I only have so far of a reach on-line. Usually I hope something good will come out of a magazine feature and I might sell something but usually nothing happens except that I will get a few more newsletter subscribers or Facebook followers. So for all of you who think that people who get featured in magazines are making the big bucks - think again. For me, it is mostly an ego stroke. And my publishers like it because they might sell a few books.

Lately I have kind of resolved my thoughts of world domination, possible licensing agreements, and professional success. I guess I am getting older (that is an understatement) and am happy with the number of people who come to my blog and read (thank YOU), might come to a class here at the farm or perhaps might buy something. It really is all about showing up and making or writing things. I'm never going to get rich off this but I appreciate the small amount of success I have from time to time.

I thank you all for coming here and reading my thoughts. As I breezed through the pages of this Living the Country Life magazine, I got a kick out of the other features. One was of a family who raised sheep hosting a "sheep shearing party." Beautiful photos of gorgeous grandchildren, perfectly set tables, neighbors visiting. 

OMG - how hilarious that was for me to think about. When we shear our sheep, it is days full of long, dirty hours of hard physical work. There is nothing romantic about it and we all end up looking like we are covered in dirt. We stink to high heavens and if by mistake you lick your fingers, they taste like lanolin and poop. How funny to see a shearing day portrayed in a magazine with people looking beautiful. I guess it is a Martha Stewart moment when you have lots of help and money to pay people to do things for you. 

My take on this magazine is that they are trying to sell the "country life" as some kind of bucolic lifestyle where everything is perfect, people are beautiful and animals never get sick and die. Of course that is their take. That is the country dream of so many urban and suburban dwellers. It's a story that has been told for decades. Remember Green Acres? Or from the 1940's The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald (thank you Therese) which later became a film with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert. The later spin-off was the Ma and Pa Kettle series of movies.  

My take of the "country life" after living here for almost twenty years is that it is so different than what is pictured in the glossies. Many things are harder and most things are more expensive - although I think the internet has changed a bit of that (that is if you live where there is high speed connection - for many rural dwellers that is not available.) It takes much longer to get places (with no traffic jams) and most things that suburban and city dwellers take for granted are totally inconvenient. I'm not complaining - I'm just stating a fact. Every time I go to visit and stay with my sister close to Boston or my Mom in the burbs of NJ, I realize this. 

I really don't want to live anywhere else and I can't imagine my life any different. Which is a nice feeling. As long as I plan, trip-chain, and realize that I really don't need most of the stuff that most people think are necessary, things are fine. We subsist on less and so what if your clothes are 15 years old as long as I can still squeeze into them. 

That's my thoughts for the day. If you are interested in reading another blog about living on less, I am enjoying Rhonda's blog Down To Earth - she is from down under. Hope you all are well. 

Our Farmhouse in Country Home 2016

Way back in 2004 when print magazines abounded, our home was featured in one of my favorite magazines called Country Home. It was so exciting to see our place in print - including being featured on the cover. 

Our house on the cover of Country Home in 2004

Now in 2016, magazines are folding left and right. I don't know about you but I really miss getting magazines in my mailbox. In the evening I would sit and savor the pages and learn about the homes featured. The internet is fine but there is something about having pages to turn. I find it so much easier to really inspect a home on paper vs the screen. 

Last September, a photo crew arrived from the NEW Country Home to shoot our home once again. This new version of Country Home is a yearly magazine with very little advertising. It features about 15 homes and each place is given a lot of pages. 

Here is a little 3 second video preview for you. 

You can find the magazine on the news stand and at Barnes and Noble like I saw it yesterday. 

Country Home has a nice Instagram feed which you can follow here. 

Big News! We're in Yankee Magazine

Big news from here on the farm. We just received the November/December issue of Yankee Magazine. And there we are on 7 beautiful colorful pages. 

The article written by Julia Quinn-Szcesuil begins..... "Inside the colorful world of designer Kristin Nicholas.....". The article is about our home at Christmas and the different ways we celebrate the holidays. It also tells about the back-story of our family. Julia did an amazing job. The photos are by the talented (and incredibly nice) Joe Keller. Check out his website - he is an amazing photographer. 

The folks from Yankee were here for 2 days. There was a crew of 6 if you can believe it. They took thousands of photos. And at least 7 cover tries. Here is a photo of Mark, Winston and I taken by the photographer's assistant. 

Here is Mark with the sheep and the photographer. The Border Collies dogs are somewhere there and you can see Winston. 

If you aren't from New England, you probably don't know about Yankee Magazine. It is a regional publication that comes out 6 times a year. They have been in business for 80 years. They are also the publisher of The Farmer's Almanac. Their focus is to tell stories about New England and the people who live here. It is a big favorite within the region and also with folks who like to visit here or have sadly had to move away from the region. We have already had numerous people at the Farmers Markets say they saw the article. Pretty cool! This is a real honor to be included in Yankee Magazine. I'm right up there with illustrator and author Susan Branch -- her home was featured a couple years ago. You can read that article here. 

Thank you to Amy Traverso and all the fine people at Yankee Magazine. BTW, Yankee was just featured in the NY Times. You can read that article here. 

I'm off to the Tuesday Market in Northampton today. Only 2 more markets left this season behind Thorne's Marketplace Stop by if you are local and say hi. 

Big Goings On This Week at the Farm

Wow - what a few weeks it has been. Some weeks are just like that, aren't they? This week, we had a photo crew here for an upcoming feature next year in Country Home Magazine. We shot for two days - moving furniture around, me frantically cleaning where it hadn't been cleaned in years and would show in a photo. Days like these are long and very physical and intellectual all at the same time. I love them but I am always glad when they are over. I worry, worry, worry before but know deep inside it will all work out fine. Once the shoot is over, I collapse. The house is destroyed pretty much and it takes months to find everything again. I always wonder why I say yes but then as the producer who came said when I said "never again" that I will forget all the work and do it again perhaps. 

Above is a look behind the scenes. Just so you know, in every photo shoot I have been involved in, there is shear chaos just set outside the camera lens' reach. Piles of stuff which doesn't look good. The regular stuff of life - piles of paper, batteries, brooms, vacuums, unattractive packaged objects, hammers, nails, tape..... As each room is finished with its close-up, the mess gets shifted again. By the time the shoot is over, it looks like a bomb went off. Good thing my family doesn't mind and is kind of used to what ensues.  

The cool thing about CH coming is that they were here in 2003 for a feature that came out in 2004. You can read that article on my website here. I was surprised that they would want to come back and feature our house again but it has been over a decade and most likely they have new readers - and different readers. And evidently the article back then was very popular. It was fun for me to revisit the photos from back then and see how things in our house had changed - and they have even though I thought they hadn't. 

When I do these shoots, my favorite part is arranging the flowers in all my different vases. I had tons of sunflowers to pick - after they photographed them. Since they wanted to photograph my cutting garden, I didn't want to pick it because my zinnias are a bit scarce. Luckily I have flower growing farmer friends. On Monday, when I should have been cleaning, off I went to see Olivia and Susie at Wingate Farm just over the MA line in NH. Olivia let me pick her garden and gave me left overs from the Saturday farmers market. Thank you Olivia! Here are some of the bouquets I made from their flowers and mine. 

In other news, I'm so excited to share that there is a new article about my work and my new book Crafting A Colorful Home in the Oct/Nov issue of Mary Jane's Farm Magazine. Four pages full of photos and a nice interview. So awesome to be introduced to a new group of readers. Thanks to Carol Hill at MJF for pulling it all together. If you don't know Mary Jane's Farm, you can go to their website here and learn more about their magazine, their products, and the dynamic people behind the brand. Mary Jane Butters writes a great blog too!

The kittens are starting to leave the nest. I have homes for 3 of the 4. If you know of anyone who might like a good farm cat, the gray tabby with the white markings in the photo below is still available. Shoot me an email at kristinnicholasATgmailDOTcom.

I have one free weekend beginning tonight! Yippee! And then my last Getting Stitched on the Farm creative retreat of the 2015 happens next weekend September 26/27. I still have spaces available - it is the only knitting retreat of the year. If you are interested in a last minute great time, check it out here. 

The Winner, Taproot, + Mr. Turner

Wow everyone! Thank you so much for all the positive, kind and encouraging comments you left on my last post. The Farmer and I read through them all - I cannot thank you enough for your enthusiasm. It is so great that so many of you who read faithfully do not have me pigeonholed into the knitter only world. 

I think one of the frustrating things for me - which I touched on the other day - is that publishers and corporations - only see me as having one skill or talent. It will take a long time to beat that and I do not know if I ever will. I am just going to carry on doing what I want art and design wise as long as I can afford to do that. And I mean afford that financially. Creatively is not a problem but financially may be. (Anyone want to come to a class at the farm?) I've got some plans for future products and I have some very positive things in the works that should help me with that. I will be selling things via the internet because I am not interested in getting into the wholesale world. 

In the fall, when most of the retail dollars are spent, I will probably do some "house shows" if I can find friendly, drivable locations with a demographic that has money and likes to spend it on handmade things. I'll talk more about that later this summer. Where we live is the least affluent counties in Massachusetts. I do not expect to be able to peddle my pots here because folks just don't have the income to purchase them.

And now - generated by Random Number Generator - the winner of the Happy House..... The winner is Annie and I have contacted her via her email address. I wish I had enough time to make you all a Happy House. Seriously I do.

Thank you to Taproot Magazine for featuring my "Fabric Hanging Lanterns" in their newest issue called Wild. Do you know Taproot? It is a small independent magazine edited by Amanda Blake Soule, author of many books and of the blog Soulemama. I have subscribed for quite a while. It has an interesting, non-mainstream vibe to it which I enjoy. There are essays, recipes, projects, and art. No advertising either. What a nice mix and so happy to have been included on the pages with all the other talented folks who write, do art, and photograph for Taproot. In this issue, I especially enjoyed the article about gathering things to eat from the wild, including sumac berries. I have that on my list to do this fall. 

Isn't this illustrated cover beautiful? It is by artist Phoebe Wahl. An aside, today I saw a mother doe with her just born fawn. I didn't have my camera with me. Darn. 

I watched the British film Mr. Turner the other day. It is about Britain's most famous landscape painter JMW Turner. There was one scene that was amazing - the salon at the Royal Academy where all the member painters showed their work. Astounding. No photos to sell off of - buyers had to come to see the work. I found a video that explained it here. I have embedded it below. Worth a watch - the whole movie is. Makes one think - especially about fame in the world before social media and aging. I want to watch it again because I was sewing and missed some visuals. 

Just so you know - Mr. Turner isn't a very upbeat movie but it is beautifully filmed, written and acted. But it made me think a lot. 

That's it for today - again - thank you everyone!!!!! Farmer's Market tomorrow in Northampton. It is supposed to rain and thunder. UGH. No fun. But sometimes the weatherperson is wrong. 

Mad for Plaid - Vogue Knitting Winter 2014/15 Shawl Design

Thanks everyone for all the book love! I have such fantastic readers. It is amazing to see orders come in from names I remember from past orders. Truly - you all are the best. I'm still hoping for more.

Here is a bit of color for you all today on this winter day. I designed this easy to knit plaid shawl for the folks at Vogue Knitting. It is in their new Winter 2014/15 issue. Here's a close-up of it before I sent it out. (Obviously, I didn't realize I was going to post this on the blog, otherwise I would have tried a little harder with the styling.)

It is knit of my favorite mohair La Gran from Classic Elite Yarns. When the VK editors asked me to do a plaid, I wanted to make it relatively easy to knit with not too many bobbins - it is done in the intarsia technique because Fair Isle doesn't work for plaid designs. The slim vertical lines are worked after knitting in chain stitch. The nice thing about this project is that it is very lightweight and the finished shawl just floats in the air. The gauge is 3 1/2 sts per inch (I think? - sorry - do not have a copy of the mag handy) and the shawl could be cut down in width to make a scarf. Here are their photos on a beautiful red headed model. Love these pics. You can see a preview of the other projects here on their site.

It is being featured on their European COVER of their magazine which is called Designer Knitting. It is called this in Europe because they do not have the worldwide rights to
the "Vogue" name.

Speaking of Vogue Knitting, their big VKLive shindig is coming up in NYC in a couple weeks - January 16 to 18. I cannot go and teach because we will be knee deep in lambs but I will be there in spirit!  Have a great day everyone!

Something is Brewing in this Little Old Farmhouse

I'm a bit frantic this week. Getting last minute orders out, trying to decorate a bit for the upcoming holiday season, doing a bit of baking and cooking. But it's not really the holidays that are putting me almost over the edge. You see, I've made it all more complicated.

Last January I got an email from an Editor at Yankee Magazine. She had seen photos of our home on the Houzz website and was wondering about my Christmas decorating style. Luckily I hadn't put our Christmas decorations away. I took some pictures and then didn't hear anything again. I put it out of my mind - I know how these things go - magazines change their minds all the time and move in different directions. No biggie.

In May, I heard from a freelance editor who had been assigned our story. We set up a tentative photo date for sometime in December 2014 for a feature to run in December 2015. I didn't think much about it nor worry about it because it seemed so far away. I was just jazzed that it might happen and hopefully help bring my creative work and our farm to a larger audience. 

Today it was time to panic, decorate, cook and bake for the Yankee folks. We are holding off on the tree until they see the place and tell me where they would like it set. Good thing I have a low maintenance tree style. Tomorrow and Friday at this little farmhouse in the countryside, there will be 6 or 7 strangers doing their magic, moving things around, taking close-ups of my decorations, my crafts, and whatever else they think their readers might like to see. There will be a writer interviewing me for the article. I'll be helping - dragging out things they might like, feeding them all, and watching and learning - I always learn so much on shoots when I can work with other professionals.

Fingers crossed it all works out. I'll take some photos and share them with you all. I'll be posting on Instagram and Facebook - not here - so follow me if you haven't (and you are at all interested!) You all have the inside scoop almost a year in advance. If anyone has any pull with the weather gods, we are hoping for some snow. 

These two little kitties left on Monday. Miss them. We have two left who are staying til just past Christmas. Then they go together to a local family.

Jocasta and Paint Love

No secret here that I love painted surfaces - on paper, canvases, boards, fabric and walls. I was really psyched when I received the March issue of World of Interiors - my favorite decorating magazine. In it, an article called The Innes Effect, featured the  home of the author Jocasta Innes. The article is written by her son about Jocasta's home in the Spitalfields area of London. It is a great read and the pictures are superb. World of Interiors has a Facebook page which features photos and upcoming articles. Here is the link. It is about to go off sale because of the months changing so if you want to pick it up, act fast.

World of Interiors - March 2014 issue

This is Jocasta's sitting room. What a lovely room with high ceilings, dark painted woodwork, and tiled fireplace.

Jocasta's sitting room with portrait of her mom from World of Interiors

This is Jocasta's hallway - full of paint treatments galore. From the article I learned that the building she bought was a real dump. With ingenuity and very little money, she transformed it into a grand house.

Jocasta's hallway from World of Interiors

Sadly Jocasta is no longer with us. She passed away in early 2013. Reading this made me so sad. You see, I learned to do decorative painting from Jocasta's incredibly popular book Paint Magic. And later Decorating with Paint.  It was the late 80's and decorative painting was all the rage. Somehow I found the book (pre-internet days) and with Jocasta's words, I figured out how to colorwash, drag, and stencil all with little money but with a lot of experimentation. With the skills, I decorated our first home. I was hooked.

Jocasta wrote over 60 books - many at her kitchen table on a typewriter. Her son recounts in WOI how she would cook dinner all day long, organize contractors, write her books, all at the same time from this kitchen table. Talk about multi-tasking before that was even a term.

Jocasta's kitchen in World of Interiors

I went down the rabbit hole trying to find out more about Jocasta. Here is a rather entertaining and amazing obituary from her local newspaper including an interview with her. Gee, I sure would have liked to have dinner with her at that kitchen table. Here is an obit from London's Guardian.

What an amazing woman. RIP Jocasta and thank you for all you taught me and shared with the world. 

Where Women Create - Spring 2014

Exciting news from the studio today. My sweet little crazy messy studio is featured in the latest issue (Spring 2014) of Where Women Create. Not only is it featured inside but it is on the cover. Wow! There are 10 pages inside and an article written by me about how this artsy-craftsy-textile life came about.

How fun is that? You can pick up the magazine at Barnes and Noble and Joann's Fabrics. Or you can order on-line here. 

Thanks so much to Jo Packham for inviting me to be featured and to Rikki Snyder for taking the colorful photos. Just to give you all a little back-story, we shot the photos at the end of one of the days of the first photo shoot week for my upcoming book. It was pretty insane and we were both so pooped and exhausted. What were we thinking? But the photos came out great and evidently stunning enough to be on the cover. Thank you Rikki!

Spring Issue of Folk Magazine Feature

The new issue of Folk Magazine is out. Do you know Folk? It is published 4 times a year by three college students who are trying to do something different. They feature articles on strictly American craftspeople, good recipes, beautiful photographs, profiles of interesting people and more. In our era where print magazines have disappeared, it is nice to see a new and interesting publication that you can hold in your hands. 

Look for it at your local B&N. If you want a preview, or prefer digital publications, here is the link. Or click on the photo below which should take you to the digital pub.

We here at Leyden Glen Farm are happy to be included in an article beginning on page 92. The photos were shot by Rikki Snyder back in January. Enjoy!

Big Day Here

Took a break from the sheep barn chores yesterday for a photo shoot here at the Farmhouse with Rikki Snyder for an upcoming magazine article.

It was a fun and busy day. My niece Celia is off from college and helped out. She learned what goes into a shoot and was a great third set of hands.

Celia is a great baker and likes to take photos of food so it was a nice opportunity for her.

It's amazing how much tedious work goes into a food shoot. Here's Rikki setting up a plate.

The recipe I made was for Indian spiced lamb-burgers. We had the leftovers for dinner last night. Yummy! Here's Rikki doing more detail work with toothpicks.

And here are Rikki and Celia with Julia after school. Fun day for all.

The Farmer is THE Cover Farmer on Country Folks New England

Our sheep farm Leyden Glen Farm is featured in the newest issue of Country Folks New England with an article written by Anne Buchanan. Here's the cover shot....

We are rather excited. It's the first big article about our sheep farm which reaches a larger market than just little old Greenfield. Here is a link to the article!

Fall is Approaching - The Fall 2011 Vogue Knitting Arrives and More

The new Fall issue of Vogue Knitting is out. What a beautiful collection of patterns. Here's a Fair Isle design I did for their black and white story. Isn't this shot gorgeous? I just want to be there on those rocks with that walking stick looking out to the sea!

 

The pullover was knit in Rowan's Creative Focus Wool/Alpaca. Kind of funny VK asked me to do a black and white sweater, don't you think? The whole time I was swatching the lovely single ply yarn, I kept thinking about how gorgeous it would be in a real color combination. Lots of times, I have to design what the magazine wants and so I keep my mouth shut and swatch on. I knew Trisha would get a good photo of it but I kept thinking about colors.

After I sent the sweater in, I couldn't help but voice my color-starved opinions to VK. And lo and behold, they asked me to write down my thoughts for an article for the Fall issue. Then push came to shove and Doreen sold too many ad pages. My article got moved to their website. Actually, that's a good thing because now I can reference it forever here on my blog. Read my COLOR YOUR KNITS article here.

I always anticipate the arrival of the new fall knitting magazines in the mailbox. Vogue Knitting, Knitters, Interweave Knits ...... love them all. I know that so many magazines are going digital now but there really is no substitute for going to the mailbox and actually lifting a plastic wrapped glossy magazine from my actual mailbox, not my virtual one. Thank goodness the physical magazine business model still seems to be working for the knitting magazines. Fingers crossed.

So today, I open up the comments section to all of you.... What do you think about paper magazines and virtual magazines (like Knitty, Petite Purls, Twist Collective, Knit Circus). I know there are many more virtual magazines out there. If you know of one I might be interested in, leave it in the comments. Thanks. Which do you prefer? Paper or Virtual.

FYI..... Last weekend for the discount on my new Kristin's Creative Christmas Stocking Pattern. See this post.

And lastly, CONGRATULATIONS to Clara Parkes on the 11th Anniversary of Knitter's Review! What a wonderful addition Clara has been to the yarn business, don't you think??? I don't know Clara well at all but I have met her a couple times at TNNA. I admire what she does from afar and look forward to her weekly newsletter every Thursday a.m. Write on Clara!

Back to School, Back to Work

I've just spent a couple of weeks doing pretty much nothing work/knitting/craft/studio related and spent every waking minute with Julia and a few with The Farmer when his haying/our farmer's markets' schedules worked. Now it is September 1st and Julia is back to school and I am overwhelmed by all there is that needs to be done! I know all mothers feel this way when summer vacation ends. We'll all get through it - just remember to breathe everyone!

In my haste to keep up the blog a bit while I was away I forgot to share with you all one really exciting thing that happened to me! I already shared with you this...


It is my newest design in the Fall 2010 Vogue Knitting. Knit in my Julia Yarn, of course. One thing I forgot to share with you is an idea for customizing this design using the many extra charts in the back of my newest book Color by Kristin. You might wonder what is significant about this. Here's the thing - the design in VK has raglan shaping and is an easy fitting design in a large range of sizes. Most of the garments in Color By Kristin are straight with drop shoulders. So this design gives you another shape to play with all the extra charts that are included in my newest book. In the book, I give complete instructions for how to plug in and substitute different charts. If you are trying to spread your knitwear design wings, this is a great way to begin. The book is of course available signed on my website here.


So here is the big news...... As I told Julia I've been waiting for 25 years for this one.... There is a two page article in the new VK profiling me! It's called "Kristin Nicholas, In Living Color" and it is in their new section called "Knit Life." Isn't that really great? Wow - I am over the moon about this. VK has always been one of my favorite knitting mags so it is a real honor to be included. Thank you Trisha and all the other staff at Vogue Knitting for this great feature.


And here is some more exciting news. Vogue Knitting is doing a giant event in their hometown - NYC! and I've been invited to teach at it. I can't wait! The dates are January 21 to 23, 2011. Here is the link to VOGUE KNITTING LIVE - THE EVENT!

Hope to see some of you in Minneapolis in a couple weeks where I will be teaching at the giant "CREATIVE CONNECTION!" You can check out all that is to offer here on their website. What a wonderful roster of teachers they have put together for all kinds of
creative endeavors!

That's it for today.... Back to work - ooohhhh - where did the summer go?