HONEY I'M HOME!!

I had the most amazing time in Israel (thanks to host & hostess Moti,& Eti, to my wonderful volunteer tourist guides and to the best students ever!) and I feel that I have made lifetime friends in that historically amazing country. Shown below are  1) attendees from one of the workshops 2) amazing host & cook Moti, his charming son Iz and Iz's lovely girlfriend Nitsan and 3) my fabulous hostess Eti.  I miss them all and would go back for a visit in a heartbeat!

Shortly after returning from Israel it was on to the ever popular Bead & Button show in Milwaukee, where I enjoyed teaching as well as staffing a booth in the marketplace.  I was lucky enough to squeeze in a short class with Kim St. Jean on Fold Forming, a metal working technique pioneered by Charles Lewton-Brain.  It was exactly what I wanted, and I walked away with a few basic pieces and a head spinning with ideas.  I also snagged some lusciously colorful hand spun recycled silk sari yarn from Kipuki Trading that I'm having fun incorporating as accents...check out "FiberFish" here...reminds me of a starfish with extra fiber tentacles!

Last but not least, I packed up the car and headed to gorgeous Lake Tahoe for the third annual PolyPalooza retreat, sponsored by Clayville California.  Imagine spending four days eating, breathing and dreaming clay while looking out on the emerald & turquoise waters of one of the most beautiful lakes in California.  I am so lucky to be a member of this creative, generous and sharing guild! 

SHOP OPEN ~ SORT OF

Talk about procrastination!  Seems like I've been busy with special orders, donation pieces and flat-out playing with new ideas...getting new pieces photographed and listed in the shop has taken a lower priority lately.  So I have given myself the goal of listing at least five new pieces a week for the month of July.  I'll probably be lucky to get five pieces listed for the entire month <grin>...but a girl's gotta have goals.

HAPPY SUMMER CLAYING!

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