Spell Bound

Spellbound  [spel-bound] adjective: a feeling of being enchanted, entranced, fascinated…

Spellbound
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Last March when I was back home in California, I went to my Cousin Denise's darling shop with my nieces to make Easter Baskets. While my nieces cut ribbons, glued, glittered and created sugar sweet Easter baskets, my cousin Denise talked about what she had being doing… one of her passions is creating art, and going to different Mix Media Art Conferences, taking classes with other bloggers from around the USA.

Denise told me that the next class/conference she was going to go to was in Southern California called SpellBound. And as she was telling me about it, she stopped mid sentence and exclaimed, "You should be a guest speaker! I am going to send them an email right now and tell them that you should be a guest speaker."

 

Photo Source and Information regarding Spellbound Event.

I didn't think too much about it. Until Shea and Debbie sent me an email a few days later.

Then the reality hit: Me speaking in front of a group of women artists.

Oh.My.God.

Fear struck.

Until I met them today on their way back to California from a artist's workshop they gave with Kaari Meng (French General) in Toulouse.

Shea and Debbie were so easy going and fun that I forget the time, nearly forgot to blog, and worse, after lunch when we came back to my home … I forgot to offer them anything to eat or drink. They left it was nine in the evening!

We kinda got lost in talking.

When they asked if I would like to be a speaker at their conference, we laughed.

November 8 through the 11th…. California here I come…. Spell Bound!

 

Nightgown

The winners of a 1900s white cotton night dress are:

° Sue from Japan.

° Paulita

° Some Pink Flowers

° La Contessa

° Julie Loeschke 

Please send me your addresses by email.

Thank you for your most beautiful, enchanting, ever endearing, a pleasure to read comments! If you haven't read the comments from yesterday's post you might want to take a peek… Sweet summer thoughts from the most loving group of women! Thank you all of you for such thoughtfulness!





Comments

25 responses to “Spell Bound”

  1. You go, girl! Go to Pasadena!

  2. it is a small world, corey.. i was looking at the group of mixed media object’d arte and noticed my artist friend’s debrina pratt’s. top left. i wondered why you would feather this particular group. i should have guessed when you titled today spell- bound.
    i will be there (lana mock kloch) and i will see you again. and you get another return trip to america. kudos to you, corey..
    pasadena will adore you..and on the sunday, all are invited to the huge brocante: the rose bowl..

  3. Who wouldn’t want you to be the speaker?
    If I was a conference holding type person, I sure would.
    I’m not an artist and I want to go!

  4. Fantastic! maybe I need a trip to California!

  5. Congrats to all the winners! For those who can’t attend the entire event, what dates and times will you be speaking? What will your topic be?
    Congrats to you too!
    Jackie
    bliss farm antiques

  6. Oh, my! I won?!! How very exciting!!!
    Corey, your email link tries to take me straight to Microsoft mail, which I don’t have set up, because I don’t use it. Could you possibly send a blank email to me at sueinjapan@yahoo.com, so that I can email my address to you from my yahoo account? So sorry for the trouble! Thank you so much!!

  7. Jeannie

    Congrats to the lucky winners! I knew I should have read blogs yesterday morning instead of weeding the flower beds (alone!). I wish I could get to Pasadena to hear you speak and to play. It looks like a wonderful group of like minded people. Back to the weeds, why do they grow healthier than the flowers?

  8. Sigh! I didn’t read your blog yesterday. Awesome you will be a speaker at an artist conf. You’ll be great and best part you’ll get to spend time with your mom and brothers. Sounds like a great summer so far! BTW how’s the Paris apt coming along?

  9. How exciting! I think it is high time for me to get to Cali again!!
    These photos are so lovely. I need one of those dress forms badly – it would be exactly what I need when working on wedding clothing!

  10. Congrats!

  11. Diogenes

    Well Corey, it looks like we’re finally going to meet.
    This is only about 10 miles from where I live.
    And the amazing Huntington Museum and Library is a stone’s throw from the event hotel. It has a cactus garden that has to be seeen to be believed.

  12. congratulations! i’m sure you will all have a great time, speaker and participants alike!

  13. Wonderful! I love forward to meeting you!!! Let’s plan it.
    C

  14. You will weave your magic and leave the audience spellbound.
    Congrats to you for this feather in your cap.
    Kudos to Denise for making the connection
    and to Shea and Debbie for their savviness in snapping you up.

  15. Congratulations to you!

  16. Massilianana

    Bravo ! And no reason to hesitate ! You already create art (I’m thinking about the precious litlle frames you made with seaweeds, textiles, rhinestoned mini-brooches,etc…).

  17. congratulations. That’s just wonderful for you. You MUST have something to do in the East coast, don’t you??? Come visit us over here – we are nice people, really and truly 🙂

  18. Paula S In New Mexico

    Lucky ladies!!!!!!!!!!!
    Corey do you have an extra I can buy?????

  19. How wonderful for you. Oh how I wish I could be there. It sounds like a total delight!

  20. Carolyn

    You will have so much fun. I fell for French General
    years ago. It is such a small world.

  21. wonderful news.
    you will wow all….as you are enticingly lyrical….

  22. Spellbound is a wonderful multi-day event (though a bit pricey in these days of economic stress) for those who like to create mixed media art and jewelry, but not a venue for the antique collector. I’m curious what your topic will be at this event. The Rose Bowl is a great venue for the collector; was mentioned as one of the top 25 flea markets in the annual Flea Market issue of Romantic Homes (August issue) that is just now hitting the shelves in the USA.

  23. Oh My! I sold my manikin, and I am missing her! Love the one in your pictures!

  24. oh! but i have a story!!! ;))
    too bad i found out about this competition too late!
    xxn

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