Now this little lady is the "baby" of the group and her name is "Sammy" or Samantha Ware. She's Linda Ware's granddaughter, and as you can see - she's also a talented little artist! I'm sure before it's all said and done we'll all be reading about her doing big things with her art skills. She was so cute - and I kept hugging her all weekend. What a precious baby she is!

Sammy, I'm sure glad you decided to join us for this weekend. So great it is to see younger people enjoying the decorative arts!

You may call her "Madam President", but her friends call er' "High Roller Judy" <giggles> Judy McCourry is the CCCP President and she leads this wacky group all over the place! She tried her best to "persuade" us to go to the casinos which are strategically placed along the way to the coastline, but she digressed, and gave us the "real" directions to getting to the ocean. I promised Judy that while casinos were not my favorite thing, next time we'd have to stop in and help her "fix". LOL This special lady sent my son a get-well card just prior to my leaving. Does that tell you what kind of people the CCCP's are?

Judy and her husband will retire to Arizona in 2 years. I'm not sure how the CCCP's are going to make it without her!

Now these two honery ones (on both sides of course), are my room monitors, Ms. Jo and Lori. These two wonderful girls kept order in the court while the "head jester" tried to work the room!

Lori does the most beautiful rosemaling pieces and I'm sure we'll be seeing some of her wonderful things in magazines to come. Ms. Jo won the brush case I painted (while it is hard to see, it is in front of Lori on the table). We were all so excited with the raffles!

Thank you both for taking care of the "business" stuff while I got to teach. It made my life so easy . . . just like this entire trip!

Note to the group . . .
Girls, this was clearly one of the most fun I've had in a long, long time! I cannot thank you enough for sharing yourselves with me for that special 3 days of painting and sightseeing.

I look forward to seeing you all again one day,
and all you have to do is give me a call!
Thanks so much for one fastastic week.

The Tolefairie!

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