Birthday Trip to Chicago

Mary Sue and I celebrated both of our birthdays last week with a wonderful trip into Chicago.A scenic architectural boat tour on the Chicago River,drinks on Trump Tower,dinner at the Grand Luxe Café,and Elton John's Aïda.Our gift to each other!Fabulous molten chocolate cake at Grand Luxe Café.We waddled out of there!

Toasting with champagne from Donald Trump's beautiful 16th floor bar.What a view!

The Trump Tower.
Reflections of Chicago.
It was great playing tourist in our "home town"!Happy Birthday to us!

Ingrid doing a demo of Down the Rabbit Hole

photos of Whispering Woodlands

The beautiful backyard at WhisperingWoodlands

Our view from the studio!

more Ingrid Dijkers workshop pix

These are pages from the In Corporus Humani Fabrici class....mine is still not finished...I am putting my favorite Halloween ATCs and collage works in it,as it seems appropriate!

Ingrid Dijkers Workshop

I was also lucky enough to take 2 June workshops with Ingrid at a beautiful studio called Whispering Woodlands in Verona,Wisc. These first pix are from our 2 day journal class,"Down the Rabbit Hole". This was a labor of love,quite labor-intensive,but so worth it. The covers are wood.

more Teesha weekend pix

These are pix of and from the B&B I stayed at,right on Lake Erie.Beautiful!

The first picture is me with Teesha and Maria,who was also staying at the same B &B.

some of my finished pages

I got about 8 whole pages done(out of 60)!!!Most people did way less than that,so I was pleased. What fun this was!So NON-stressful!!!

some of my classmates' work

more of Teesha's work

more of Teesha's work