Hello my dear friends! I hope your holidays were happy. Mine were busy with family and work on our little mountain home, here in the foothills of the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming. We're settling in, but I'll tell you...it's a lot of work to move! Here are a few scenes from around our place. Yes...we have snow!
Neither of our boys were able to join us for Christmas, for the first time ever...which was pretty difficult but we do have family here in Wyo so we weren't alone, and neither were they. We were blessed with a white Christmas...our first in many years. Small consolation for not having our boys but it was pretty nice!
This guy appeared with our first real snow...built by Wife Whisperer and decorated by me. I adored him until a warm wind came the next day and completely he collapsed like a drunkard. Easy come, easy go.
This is our road, with the creek on the right. It's really picturesque and we have tons of wildlife out here. Miss Mayzie absolutely loves it and really doesn't know which way to run first. She's got squirrels, turkeys and deer to chase...busy, busy.
We have the most beautiful sunrises that I've ever seen (this is our front yard, btw). They start on the other side of the creek and move all the way around until the mountains are tinged pink. Oh...did I say we have snow? Yep...there's snow and we're enjoying it! But, I'm getting ready for my Tucson trip and it's going to be nice to be back into some heat again, too.
I'll be teaching two classes at Art Retreat in the Desert, in Tucson, at the end of this month. My Rustic River Pendant class is full but there are two spots left in my Rose Ring class. I've been working on some more samples for this class and I think you're going to love it.
I have some fantastic, rose-cut faceted stones for ya'll to use in class, and more to purchase. I hope to see you in class but even if you're not in my class, stop and say hi, anyway, and show me what you got at the gem shows. Gotta shop!
deryn xo
