As some of you know, I have needed to stay off my right leg for some of the summer. I wasn’t quite sure how a papier mache overnight PLAYshop was going to go.
It went SMASHINGLY!
And for that, I have to thank Lilly, Kate, Kami Jo and Tania. I learned that it is possible to hold a PLAYshop while lying on the couch with your leg up most of time. I just ordered everyone around. When I stood up, they said, “sit DOWN.” And, I did!
Here are some photos from our fun time together – my thank you’s are at the end!
Lilly, pizza chef extraordinaire
Beginning to create our forms with balloons, gooey flour and water and newspaper
Let them dry…Off to the coulee! (Photo by Lilly)
Photo by Lilly
Blazing Star, Photo by Lilly
Pheasant Creek, Photo by Tania
at Grandfather rock, photo by Tania
Who is that under the umbrella? Why, it is Kate who is certain it will rain. It did not rain. But, there are bears and umbrellas are excellent bear protection.
The person with the wrinkles is driving the car
Hanging our forms out to dry (shouldn’t have got so enthusiastic with that glue but felt so good on our hands!!)
Kate hypnotizing a chicken
Tania bonding with a chicken
Supper. Who needs vegetables when you can have flowers and chocolate cake?
Stage 2, the balloon on the left will become a bowl and Kate with her collage
Day 2, Good Morning! (We did sleep in tents in between Day 1 and Day 2)
Art before breakfast (but not before coffee for the two adults)
Under the shade of Grandmother Willow, painting…letting the papier mache dry
Such smiles!
Our gallery or some of the pieces we did
Quiet time with Archie on the Sunshine Couch before finishing papier mache
Mama T and her bowl
Kate, amazing bangle maker
What better place to be than a farm???
We may look happy, but we are kaput, exhausted, done, finito…and happy!! As Lilly’s dad says, “All that arting wears a girl out.”
Thank you to Lilly for arriving first, rolling out pizza dough, building the fire, decorating the cake, serving me breakfast in bed, finishing your blue bunny (even though you were finished!)
Thank you to Kate for protecting us from bears (and rain), going to the coulee even though you hated it, enduring spiders, making me such beautiful bangles, cuddling with me.
Thank you to Kami Jo for building that fire, decorating that cake, delivering breakfast in bed, doing chores with a smile, driving the car (just kidding!!)and carrying stuff.
Thank you to Jessie, Marina and Handsome Stranger for giving Kate and Kami Jo a horse ride.Thank you to Shane for acting as if all this is just part of a normal day.
Thanks to the Nobles for letting us enjoy their land.
Thank you to Tania for being an adult and making the coffee (and so much more!) But, especially for being an adult.