As a follow-up to all the postings on Dale Ann Potter’s FB page about her dream of traveling by RV and teaching as she goes, I decided not to delay any longer with this posting.  It’s been planned for a while but I thought I should wait until everything was tidy!  This may be a bit of a ramble and I’ll try to group info but here goes! My Mobile Studio We have been traveling full-time in our motor home since January 2009 and...

I’ve been gradually getting back to doing some of my ‘ art shoulds’ that have accumulated during my wrist healing experience and one of the items on my list is blogging here more often.  I’ve been able to get back to some of my quilting projects (more on this to come shortly) and have started to plan my re-entry into my ‘art’ work so hope to have lots to share in the next few entries. Today I want to share my...

Well the jokes on me! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on my ‘challenge ‘ entry for the Fast Friday challenge, only to discover that it is blog postings I subscribed to, and not the group itself! And it’s a closed group to boot!Oh well, I’ve completed my first fiberart journal piece I guess. With my dominant hand in a cast for the past month, I’ve spent a lot more time than usual surfing and...

I’m finally home after a delightful visit with friends from my Ottawa days. Vikki and Gayle thanks so much for enticing me into more than my planned activities!  Dinner Thursday night with Dena Crain, a textile artist from Nakuru Kenya, was such a treat.  And it was so much more fun to work the market mall with others while comparing notes.   The quilt and quilt art exhibitions was exhausting.  In addition to trying to assimilate...

Here’s the view referred to in the last post. I had to share it.  Just as I went to upload, it disappeared from the post and I couldn’t find a way to add it after the fact.

  If you are visiting for the first time or monitoring my activity, a short explanation of my absence of almost a year. My husband and I decided to do a less than traditional transition into retirement and are currently on the road travelling, destinations decided on a whim and end date undetermined. As a result this past year has been a scurry of preparations and adjustments that have limited my will and ability to return to my art work....

Back home tonight. What a busy ten days we have had. First a smooth flight with wonderful views of clouds and the fields and forest below as we flew west . . . Then a walk down Stephen Street in Calgary under wonderful blue skies . . . a rodeo in Airdrie . . . a visit to Drumheller on a day when the thermometer registered 40 degrees Celsius and a brisk dry wind was blowing . . . An afternoon in Banff amidst the glorious Canadian Rockies . . . A...

Today was one of those glorious summer days – warm without a lot of humidity, a light breeze blowing and bright blue skies above. Don and I joined friends for an early morning walk that developed into a tour of the classic car exhibition in the local park. I think that everyone is eager to be outdoors after a month of rainy days. The participants were busy giving a last minute polish to their vehicles in hopes of catching the...

  When the student is ready, the teacher appears! This seems a very apt description for my life at the moment. Retirement, travel, opportunities – everything is falling into place. And I’ve just launched my first fibre art show – and its a solo show! Read’s Book Shop in Carleton Place, ON is a wonderful venue and between 50 and 60 friends and shop patrons showed up to get me launched! I am blessed! Now I’m...