Calendars finished!

I belong to a calligraphy study group, and each year we create a calendar to sell or give to friends.  We just finished collating the 2013 version, and it's a great one!  Here's some pics of my two pages, as well as the whole group with finished copies.  (I forgot to take pics during the process -- we were too busy).

 Usually we only get to do one page per year, but our credits person moved a couple of months ago, so I volunteered to do it.  I used pastel pencils on black paper to try to get the look of a chalkboard.  And for my June page, I used some of the techniques I have learned in Joanne Sharpe's Letter Love class.  When we get together every year to put the calendars together, there's lots of oohing and aahing over everyone's techniques!

Living vs. Blogging

Does anyone else struggle with finding the time to document their adventures on their blog?  For example, last week-end, my daughters and I went to a Bed and Breakfast in Indiana and the enjoyed visiting "Amish Country".  I kept taking pictures and thinking of what fun blog posts I'd be able to do, but here it is a week later and the time never presented itself.  So maybe I'll post a couple of pictures and let them speak for themselves.

Our B&B -- Scottish Bed and Breakfast, was wonderful, and we enjoyed our delicious breakfasts in the pool room:

They also had a lovely hammock in the back, which made for some fun!

The clop, clop, clop of the horses and buggies going down the road was a sound we never hear in the city.

And on the way home we picked the most juicy, delicious, sun-ripened strawberries I've ever tasted!

There you have it -- no artistic pictures or eloquent descriptions, but a whirlwind tour of one magnificent week-end!