Birthday Week!

I haven't done much in my studio - art wise, anyway. It's the week of my birthday and other fun things are happening: like spending time with my granddaughter! We spent a couple days sewing and we made her two tops and a skirt! She is also very talented in many artful ways: photography (natch!), videography, drawing and painting, an actress, and much, much more! We've also been out practicing driving just around our property as she recently got her learner's permit. I remember those days.

Getting back to Dubrovnik, Croatia, we had perfect weather for the day we were there. Sunny, warm, more like hot, especially when we got up to the top of the city's wall! About a quarter way around the top of the wall we saw across in the distance, still part of the walled city, a movie set! How exciting. Apparently they were shooting for an HBO series that Ive forgotten the name of, and my sister Carole knew the actor, Peter Dinkley. There was also a medieval ship not too far out in the ocean that was part of the 'show' that we saw later as our cruise ship was leaving shore.

Auburn Artists Studio Tour

This weekend was also the Annual Auburn Artists Studio Tour. Saturday my granddaughter and I went to a candle making class at High Hand Gallery. Amanda was giving the class and she is the artist that I photograph her candle products for her website. It was alot of fun and I hope to do it again soon. Our candles came out really good and the fragrances we picked out are quite lovely! I chose Christmas Wassail.

After the class we met up with my neighbor and we went over to a couple of the artists studios. One of them was in Foresthill: Dana Barrow who is a potter. Unfortunately we just missed her horse hair demo. But we were able to go inside her studio and see all of her pottery. Absolutely beautiful works. Then we headed back into Auburn and went to the OLAS Group Studio. There were six artists showing there, as the space they rent is their studios. Amazing stuff I've never seen before. Most artists work in more than one medium.

I guess it's time to move on from Venice into Dubrovnik, Croatia. There's more to Dubrovnik than the walled-city, but that's where we spent our whole day. This is an image of one of the corners of the walled city. The walls are 10 feet thick - and in some places, 20 feet! Dubrovnik by the way was a Turkish invention - the Turkish phrase dubro-Venedik means 'the good Venice'. Croatia is also the country where the tie was originated from!