First Apologies, Then Seminar

I have every intention of coming back here and posting a few photos from the August meeting. I meant to do it before I left, but I got sick and some things had to take a backseat to my packing and planning for Seminar.

But right now I'm in Naples, Florida and all my EGA photos are back on my desktop in Virginia.  So I'll get those photos later this month.

Oatlands has a number of members here at National Seminar - Lucy, Maggie, Barbara F., Barbara G., Marge, Tinka, and myself - Donna L. If I missed anyone, pipe up and let me know. 

This is my first National Seminar and you'll have to forgive me if I am a little bit starry-eyed. I keep meeting people who have only been names to me like Marnie Ritter and Michelle Roberts and Tanja Berlin. 

I arrived in Florida on Thursday and drove from Tampa to visit my mother. And then turned around and left there on Friday to pick up my roommate at the Ft. Myers airport. Barbara F. and I had time to get the lay of the land and do a bit of grocery shopping to make our week easier. 


Saturday morning Barbara headed off to class and I went and did some volunteer time. In the afternoon I got to visit the exhibit hall, Ruth Kern's traveling bookstore, and the Boutique which this year is being run by the Golden Needle out of Port Charlotte, FL. Cathy and her helpers have done a fabulous job keeping everyone supplied with some wonderful things. Yes, I found some books I couldn't stand to leave behind in Florida. And maybe a few other things as well. 


Sunday was my first class - Alexander Alligator with Lynn Payette. This is an alligator scissor holder. And today, Monday, I started my class with Susan Goodman - "Life is a Beach." We spent the morning learning to iron and paint. And then finally got to thread up our needles this afternoon. 


Every moment of this has been a pleasure, except maybe that little coughing fit I had during the Annual Meeting. 


Here's few pretty pictures to make you all jealous!

 View from the boardwalk as I walked to the beach on Saturday morning. 

 Yes. There is a bar out here at the beach!

Sunset over the pool right outside the hotel. We may never come home!