On the road again and I’m looking forward to sharing beautiful pictures of Mexico.
Category: Travel Stories
Next stop Mexico.
I begin my blog today is a state of nervousness and high excitement brace in a few days I’m off to Mexico and Guatemala for a month.
Why nervous?
Well, I’m always a little nervous entering another country on my own. Of course I’m not going to be on my own, I will be with friends always, but yes, it’s an adventure and I look forward to sharing my ideas on textile art
Images in Capture and Create.
This year at the Southern New Mexico Festival of quilts I will be taking people out on a photography excursion.
It won’t be a technical camera trip, but a “Capture and Create” tour. These are some of the images I took last year at White Sands National Monument here in Alamogordo.
Images of Alamogordo – Southern New Mexico Festival of Quilts
Next stop was to help some ladies prepare a quilt for a very special event in their daughters coming of age celebration. We’ve been invited to attend in July and it’s quite an honor. They showed me the Teepees they make and I was in awe, they are amazing structures and I would love to know how to make them.
The Travel psyche
I’m away from home a considerable part of the year and there is a ‘travel psyche’ that emerges after the first flush of travel excitement. For instance, an event that can be settled with a discussion either at home or away often escalates in the mind, simply because we don’t have the familiar surroundings and…
Join me on a tour to Kenya. This is the experience of a lifetime.
I travel a lot and I don’t think I’ve enjoyed an experience as much as I did in Kenya last year. So we will repeat it with a little difference, it will be a small group and I will teach as we travel.
I will teach you photography and how to use your images in textile art.
So much inspiration, visit the Empty Spools Seminar.
The alarm on the cell phone rang at 3.30 am, and then a few seconds later the shrill of the phone by the bed encouraged me to get up. I’m not complaining, I slept well, but it’s probably the part of travel I like the least. I enlisted the help of the bell boy and…
Quilts are life journals. – Capture and Create.
So as I undertake yet another journey, I will ‘Capture the images and Create Textile Art’ and I will share it as I go.
Join us on a tour to Thailand
Art and Anticipation
I’m about to visit Mexico, Korea and Guatemala and other amazing places and of course you are welcome to journey with me. The planning is done, cameras packed and I must admit, I’m rather excited.