Jean and I arrived at the tent about 9.30a eager to find room at Christie Friesen's dragon demo. Her dragons are so whimsical and, once you see how she does them, so easy to do!! I have yet to make one of them, but take it to the bank, I will!!! She is a witty teacher who talks clearly and fast and is thorough in teaching all the little tips on how to do the item easily and to perfection. Jean made the most adorable black dragon out of scrap clay - wish I had gotten a picture!!
I spent most of this day wandering around visiting and saying goodbye as the majority of attendees packed up and made their way back to the real world. There was much hugging, exchanges of email and snailmail, and promises to keep in touch. Early on in the day, Lisa Pavelka and I swapped our trade items. She was most pleased with her feather duster and I love the necklace she cobbled up!
I breezed by Lisa Pavelka's demo on the Sutton Slicing technique and, as usual, she was being her usual, charming self imparting a wealth of information in the short period of time. I had seen her demonstrate the technique on the Carol Duval Show just a few days before and again the night before as she was showing it to the crowd who wouldn't be around for the Sunday demo. As I sauntered by, I was reminded of all the ideas I would like to put this to!
By Hava Eisenson's rainstick demo that afternoon, the crowd was considerably thinned, but still her table held a respectably sized audience - myself among them. Making rainsticks is not as straight forward as I'd thought!! Hava did a terrific job even though she was quite nervous. This was her first time being the teacher. I am sure, somewhere spread around the states there are now numerous rainsticks enjoying their debut.
Dinner was one last foray to the Anza Restaurant with, as usual, much laughter. It was a little sad to be ending the retreat, but we were, quite honestly, all pleasantly tired and too full of too many ideas.
As darkness began to sink gently around us, the die hards were left behind. Some went down the road to "spend their money" at the Pachanga Reservation Casino, some wandered off to the sulfur hot pool, and some lingered behind in the tent to do a bit of last minute claying. Those of us in the tent gathered around Omuza and Judith Skinner told us about an easy-peasy way to build a butterfly wing cane. Well!! Several of us just had to run right to our creation stations and try it out. Jean Sheppard, Omuza, Rita, Thomas, Hava and Kim Kennedy each made a component of the "11th Hour Cane." Rita assembled it, reduced it and cut it up to share!
With the 11th hour cane finished and passed around, it was time to call it quits and everyone finally packed up their things for the morning journey back to the real world. Jean and I got back to our cottage around midnight and didn't take long to wind down and start snoring in harmony.
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Colleen D. Bergeron.
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