Holiday retreat with friends
December 19, 2009 By: almostgotit Category: Uncategorized
photo from The Snail’s Pace
Last weekend, four friends and I headed for the hills. With a corkscrew.
We had a little North Carolina mountain farmhouse all to ourselves, each of us with her own upstairs bedroom tucked under the eaves.
We had a living room with a fire already laid for us in the wood stove, a kitchen, but we didn’t do any cooking. The kitchen was for coffee in the morning and later, for the cookies everyone brought plus a pot of spiced cider that simmered all day.
There was a dining room too, but we quickly turned it into our play room instead.
We spent the next two days Making Stuff, drinking margaritas in front of our wood stove, and tromping off at regular intervals to get our meals, prepared by *somebody else.*
Heavenly!
As we made things, we hung them up on the wall. That meant moving Jesus’ portrait around a little, but we figured he wouldn’t mind. In fact, he’s probably lucky not to have ended up pasted to somebody’s project.
It is always fun to see how creative my friends are. Next, I’ll post some close-ups of what we made …
December 19th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Sounds very relaxing. Can I come next time?
December 20th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Ahhh Bliss…
December 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Oh my gosh, that sounds like so much fun! Good for y’all.
December 20th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
What a beautiful setting for writing The Great American Novel or, perhaps, The Great Canadian Novel conceived in exile…..emigre-style….I’m getting tired of Hogtown and frantic, angry folk who dwell amongst the skyscrapers…….
December 21st, 2009 at 6:04 am
[...] our holiday retreat, some of the women decorated boxes. I brought along some plain paper mache boxes and some [...]
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Did each woman bring her own crafty bits, or did you work out ahead of time who would bring what?
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
[...] Some people play faster than others, even when you put them in charge of moving Jesus’ picture around while the rest of us are Making Stuff. [...]