Wellness Weekend Featured Artist - MA

After dinner it was MA's turn to to present her workshop.

MA's featured project was "Envelope Books".

She designed a template that we used to cut our envelopes out of decorative papers.

We then folded and glued to create our envelopes. Strips of card stock was added for binding.

We created our covers and the assembled our books with metal rings.

CL is intent on getting the hole punched in "approximately" the right place.
MA is showing CL just how wide the card stock needs to be.
MA is sizing the cover to fit the pages of my book.
The inside of CL's book.
The outside of CL's book.
The outside of HM's book.
The inside of HM's book.

MA spent so much time instructing and helping CL and me that she didn't have much time to work on her own book so there are no pictures to show.

And we had reservations for dessert at the Melting Pot

Wellness Weekend -Fondue Dessert and Next Morning

After a day of creating and sharing our techniques and projects it was time to share once again.

This time it was "Chocolate Fondue".

After perusing the menus, we opted for "Turtle Fondue", a combination of chocolates, caramel and pecans.

Served with two platters of fresh strawberries, rice krispy treats, bananas, cheese cake,

brownies, and pound cake. After all that we still requested another bowl of strawberries.

After our indulgence, we returned to our hotel in time to watch Saturday Night Live with guest host Betty White.

The next morning we displayed our finished creations.

And then packed up our supplies.

Then it was off to Starbucks for coffee and a walk around the city.

Window seats at Starbucks in the lobbly of the Biltmore Hotel.


The Federal Reserve building which has been converted to a restaurant.
http://www.federalreserveri.com/

With strong wind gusts, it was too cold to do much walking, so after a short time we went back to our hotel, loaded the car, and headed back home.

We all had a wonderful weekend and are looking forward to our 2nd Annual Wellness Weekend next year!!

Three Crowns
One for Grampy, one for the Princess, one for Grammy.

Chase For The Cure

Dedicated To The Memory

My Mother and Me

Elmo"s Green Thumb

Welcome Spring

In Loving Memory

Cutting With Scissors

Cut out of fabric by our 3 1/2 year old granddaughter with kid's scissors.

Daffodils

Colored Eggs

Bird Chalk Drawing

Chalk drawing done by "The Princess" at 3 years 2 months.

Magic

Flowers