Women's Art in the Garden Retreat at the Center in Palos Park

 What a beautiful weekend for our Retreat. This is the side of the Lodge which was built as a "house by the side of the road".  It's located on a hill surrounded by oak trees, ferns, wildflowers and wild life.  We saw a Rose-breasted Grosbeak on one walk and heard lots of bird songs.

 This is the fireside room where we meet

 Front of the Lodge with the Japanese Maple and hostas outside the door.

 The bridge across Southwest Highway that links the farm and the lodge and cabins on the other sied.

Our group on the deck. Lots of camaraderie and conversation. More later...

Prayer Flag Workshop

I did a  prayer flag presentation at our Calligraphy Study Group.  We mainly were able to do the backgrounds and will have to do the finishing at a later date.  That can be adding words, buttons, lace, etc.  The second photo shows my more finished pieces.

 Karen's -ironing will come later!  She brought several foam stamps -this leaf one was nice!

Kathy's -nice colors!

Joan's- she met Kate at the Lisa Engelbrecht workshop and is a quilter!
Not sure what happened that i didn't get photos of Kate's!

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

More from Monoprinting for Calligraphers

 Most of my favorites were the botanical prints- with the late spring we had a hard time finding things to print with!  Had this ?fern leaf pressed and it came out nice!  The ones above were little branches.

 The lettering was done "blind" as I had to place a paper over the inked glass.

 Done with a fork.

 These just done with the roller.

Monoprinting For Calligraphers

The next post shows photos from a workshop taught by Luce Zolna this past weekend called Monoprinting for Calligraphers. We used water based printers ink and rollers and printed on paper that was similar to rice paper. Printing with the botanicals was much fun!  One photo shows the little book I put together with some of the papers I made. And one is Luce holding up a texture plate made of various papers, corregated cardboard, plastic, etc. I'll post more photos later.

Much Stress

Finally things have calmed down...Visited my Mom in NC and she's going to move closer to my sister.  Her health has been failing.
And when I got back, my daughter's sprained ankle which had developed an infection, didn't improve so she went into the hospital for antibiotics via IV.  Googled that and it doesn't say that can happen with a sprained ankle!