Aaaah, let the good times roll. I’m still recovering from the whole CATS experience including the 4 hour drive back by way of my father-in-law’s house to pick up Phoebe, plus spending all day yesterday getting my first car ready to sell to my little sister tomorrow, so forgive me if I don’t go into excruciating detail.<\/p>\n
First, as far as designers go, I love, Love, LOVE Lorri Birmingham and Sandra Vanosdall (The Sweetheart Tree). Lorri is a beautiful, elegant, lovely woman who is a wonderful, laid-back teacher and a very open, helpful person. Unfortunately, she is retiring. I’m so sad about this. Honestly, I’m still recovering from the news, as she has been my number 1 favorite designer for many years. Sandy is going to quickly step into that role, though. \ud83d\ude09 She is also a wonderful person who is very modest and open and seems to be surprised and flattered by the attention that she receives. I showed her my version of Enchantment with the deep purple and teal colors. She liked it so much that she wrote down the colors that I used and said that she wants to use that combination in a future design. I was flabbergasted! She and her husband were very, very nice and made a great working pair (just like Lorri and her husband).<\/p>\n
Second, stitching bloggers are wonderful! \ud83d\ude00 I met Cathy<\/a>, Patti<\/a>, Nancy<\/a> (Glory Bee), Leslie<\/a> and Jo<\/a> all on Friday. It was so very nice to meet all of them, as they are all delightful people. Meeting Cathy felt like reuniting with a good friend that you’ve known forever; we just clicked instantly. It’s nice to know that she feels the same way, so I don’t feel like a nutso. \ud83d\ude06 Patti is a sophisticated, nice, easy-going person and Nancy is extremely modest. I wouldn’t have known she was the designer behind Glory Bee if Cathy hadn’t let me know. Leslie was easy to talk to and fit right into the group and Jo was as nice and sweet as I thought she would be. I hope she doesn’t mind that I gave her a hug. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n All in all, I was exhausted by lunchtime on Saturday and I’m sorry that I didn’t get to spend more time with all of my friends. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get together again sometime, at least some of us. It would be nice to be able to keep in touch with people offline.<\/p>\n I have just a couple of pictures, but haven’t downloaded them from Terry’s camera yet, so I will post them later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aaaah, let the good times roll. I’m still recovering from the whole CATS experience including the 4 hour drive back by way of my father-in-law’s house to pick up Phoebe, plus spending all day yesterday getting my first car ready … Continue reading