Busy, busy week just passed!

A week ago was my birthday - 61 - and we barely had time to celebrate.


The day after the B-D, Scottie fixed an amazing vegetarian dinner for me, with a souffle no less, homemade muffins, asparagus, salad - Wow!

The flowers are from a friend's garden.

But, we were in the midst of getting ready for the Studio Tour, so we had to immediately shift gears and get back into that.

Introduced at the Tour was "Fiona's Fairy Filosofy" (copyrighted words and images by the way). Fiona is a Fairy who will be traveling the world dropping off bits of wisdom and "filosofy".

This is one of her first:


I had prints of this one and two others available for sale and comment, and it appears that Fiona is off to a flying start - I couldn't help myself! Get it? "flying" start, fairy, wings, etc?

Tour volume was down 1/3 from the last tour 2 years ago, a result of economy, gas prices, etc., I'm sure, but we still had about 150-175 people in 2 days!

And, with my studio upstairs, I'm paying a price. The plan had been for a helper person - that would be Scottie - downstairs and me in the studio with much of the art in the stairwell. Most folks wanted to go up/down the stairs with me to talk about the art! These 61 year old legs, knees and feet took a beating but had great fun!


Scottie and I both forgot to take pictures, so I'm hoping to get some from others. This one photo is an entire family group. They have an amazing singing group, Faena Brava, involving almost the entire family and are even bringing in the kids. Quite cool that they chose to come.

Buck and Cocoa were boarded for the weekend, and Cocoa has been traumatized since coming home. Not only was she sent away, she came home to all the strange smells in HER house.

Lucy and Ellie were in their carriers during the day, but a surprising number of people wanted to go say hi to them. Lucy had a day of being mad at me and is now lounging to recover.

And, Scottie is back on his bike, I'm back to the rest of my world, and a return to some semblance of normal. Next Tour is in two years, the last weekend of March of 2010, this time THREE days, Fri, Sat, Sun. Mark you calendars!