So where was I.... oh yea... after that wonderful meal on Wednesday night, we came to my house here in Key Largo. There was alot of hugging and talk and laughter. Everyone was given a place to sleep and the house finally quieted down about 1:30 or so. The next morning everyone was up early! Can you believe it???? I am soooooo not a morning person but I was so excited I jumped out of bed at 8:00 am and everyone was already having coffee and bagels and waiting to start the day.
This is proof that everything was nice and neat when my buddies got here!
The morning began with our prepping paper for Eileen's class that afternoon. Eileen taught us a technique she learned from Lynn Perella and is my favorite technique at the moment!!! I will show you our pictures in a minute.....
Once our papers were prepped we began with the project Val Brincheck brought for us. A beautiful little memento journal with our retreat logo. We spent the morning doing this and it was so much fun. Val is unbelievably talented and showed us some really awesome techniques which I will figure out how to link to later!
In the afternoon we all did our Lynn Perella project with Eileen. It was so much fun! The painting is done on rosin paper (the paper that is used for construction! Who knew?!) and everyone really got psyched.
The artwork that came from this project was phenomenal!
THESE ARE FIVE OF THE 11 WONDERFUL ARTISTS I HAD THE HONOR OF HOSTING IN MY HOME:
VALERIE BRINCHECK (Michigan)
LILLIAN MEDERAK (Canada)
JACQUIE VALDESPINO (Coral Gables, Florida)
MARITA KOVALIK (Oregon)
EILEEN BELLOMO (New York)
We were pretty exhausted by dinner time and went to Marlin's Restaurant (a wonderful Cuban restaurant about a mile from my house) for dinner. Manny, the owner and a friend, treated everyone to dinner and brought out platter after platter of all types of Cuban food for everyone to try. (I have already warned them ALL that they can not call and blame me if their clothes shrink!!!).
I can't even START to tell you how much Cuban coffee everyone drank!!!!
We ended the night with Marlin's Key Lime Pie (hands down the best Key Lime Pie I've ever had) and everyone raved about it!!! Now we have a full stomach of heavy Cuban food, a sugar fix with the Key Lime Pie and gasoline with the Cuban coffee!!! We came back to the house and the night ended at around 2:00 am for the last of us up!
STAY TUNED FOR FRIDAY: DAY 3!!!
Will you invite me to your next event????????? wow...... I can just imagine the fun and the friendships that were born in 3 days....................................Arriba Scrapbooking/arts.... the best therapy in the whole wide world!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the reliving of Keys 4 Art through everyone who is blogging. You were the BEST host imaginable, and I have to say, those were 5 of the BEST days I've ever had!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm so very happy that you all enjoyed the techniques I shared with you. Does this teacher's heart good!
Eileen (who loves you!)