Old Friends and New

At Art and Soul Hampton, besides spending time with my friend Heather 

can you believe she didn't buy this hat?

I also ran into some old friends, like Dawn Kittrell Sherrill, one of the lovely women with whom I explored the south of France last fall:

as well as Susan Lenart Kazmer (a.k.a "The Rockstar", who was there to teach, and from whom I took 3 days of amazing classes at Bead & Button two years ago) and Baba Paul, whom I met at a workshop with Kate McKinnon in November 2009.

I  also had the pleasure of meeting Sally Jean (a.k.a the "Soldering Queen", who posts really cool photos on her blog but doesn't it do it nearly as often as I would prefer)

and Sarah Whitmire of Soul Journaling fame (pictured here with Dawn Close, another new friend, on the left and Sarah's handsome husband whose name I can't remember right now on the right):

I also met the lovely ladies of the Tribe, Charlene Sevier, and the various amazing teachers from whom I took classes, including Janice Berkebile and Stephanie Rubiano 

Stephanie and Janice

but I have special stories to tell you about all of them so I save those tales for a later date.  Stay tuned!