Vermont Workshop Adventure

I’m in rural Vermont right now taking a class with Celie Fago and having a great time with my metal clay buddies.  Celie’s studio is very comfortable and she makes her students feel so welcome in her slice of paradise.  Pictured above is her teaching studio.  To the right is the view from the studio.  We’re just a bit early to see the leaves in full autumn blaze, but a few of the trees are starting to change.  Nonetheless, it’s a beautiful place to hang out, learn and stretch my creative muscles for a few days.

After signing up for this class, I learned that some of my online metal clay friends were also attending.  This was fantastic news! It got even better when I learned that one of my friends had access to a house just 20 minutes from Celie’s place.  There are five of us staying together and the house is filled with laughter each evening as we get to know each other better.

We’ve each taken responsibility for feeding the house one night.  Angie and Marly served an amazing veggie quiche last night, and on Saturday, Holly shared her homemade minestrone soup.  Barb started the trip with a bang by steaming nine live lobsters.  Nine lobsters!  She lives on Little Cranberry Island in Isleford, Maine, and her husband is a lobsterman.  To us this was sheer extravagence, but to Barb, it’s really no big deal.  Doesn’t this lobster look like it just threw a punch?  Trust me, I got the better of him in the end!

I’ll post more later about the class, the project we’re tackling and the other lovely women in our class.  Now, it’s time to go get my hands in the clay.