hey bloggers – wow, what a week! we hit the road last friday to texas where i taught 3 workshops for the stamp asylum. what a great time. thank you to everyone in texas for your hospitality and sharing in the creative fun! thank you to monica (owner of stamp asylum) and of course her team and friends for all of the tireless hours everyone put in. we certainly could not have done it without you… we landed on friday with lots of prep and set up work ahead of us. we started set up at about 3:00pm at a local hotel to get ready for the 102 students i had in class the following day. we had lots of supplies to unload, tables to cover, and product to put out to get ready, but we wrapped everything up by midnight in time for a few hours rest before starting the next morning. the classes were so much fun to see everyone put their creative spin on it and learn a variety of techniques working with alterations, distress ink, paint dabbers, grungeboard, and of course all things idea-ology….
we finished classes and started to pack things up to move to a new room for the folowing day's workshop. like i said, we had big things planned for the "artful curio" workshop. we set up in the ballroom complete with round tables and a large banquet of tables down the center filled with more vintage findings than you could dream of. again without the help of monica and her team, we would have been there all night, but managed to get everything done by 1:00am (of course a late night trip to the local mexican restaurant was included). the curio class started the following morning to a group of very anxious students waiting to enter to room. with a few words from me to guide them through the process, we were off to a day long workshop filled with ideas and inspiration from everyone there. even lunch was included so students could spen the entire day immersed in artistic bliss – the projects were simply amazing….
at the end of an amazingly creative and fun weekend we packed everything up to ship back to the studio to get refreshed and packed up again for our next adventure . mario flew out the next morning and i stayed in dallas to demo for a retailers event for michael's. it was a very busy week to say the least, but i returned home last night making it out just before a big storm hit dallas – very thankful for that…
so thanks again to everyone in texas for sharing your time and creativity. i also want to share a link to a great interview i did for paper crafts magazine and "moxie fab world" – i hope you check it out. i've also confirmed my next store visit to absolutely everything later this year. sign ups begin this sunday so check out the details and i hope to see you there. i'll be teaching the "ultimate alterations" and "creative blocks" workshop i did in texas along with 2 seasonal workshops using my new configurations shadow boxes – should be great fun, i love seasonal projects….
okay, lots to catch up on around the studio – gotta go…t!m
