May long weekend

Every year our family joins a few hundred people up in Princeton for a camping weekend that is pretty special.  While not as warm this year, my boys didn't seem to notice.  They were having too much fun.  The kids (with suckers in their mouth...) noticed a little group of deer in the forest- that's the closest we've ever been.  And hockey, whenever you want it.  Sasha got to be in net for the big hockey tournament with the big kids.  As you can see, he needed a little extra help! Hard to move around with all that padding, I'd say.

Hope your week has been great. I've been glazing all week getting ready to photograph and ship the kindred work off next week.  It's long hours in the studio with sore hands and neck at the end of every day, but the largest load is in and cooling now.  Phew, hope it all works out.  Fingers crossed!

Until next week

I'm wrapping up posting for the next little bit as we take off to Vancouver Island for a Spring break holiday with the boys. We have family and friends to visit along the way, but also managed to book ourselves into a hotel in Victoria for a couple of days to really feel like we are on a holiday. 

Thank you to those of you who stopped by on my blog this week.  I had a real up and down couple of weeks which thankfully ended on an up note.  Between battling a cold, the Teacher's strike, an order that felt as if it took forever to finish and not taking a day off in 2 weeks,  I realized that I've been wearing myself out.  On the up side of things, I made a point of getting out of the studio this week and connecting with some really great people.  I was able to make some progress on my exhibition coming up in June that I'm super excited about- (more on that later), and possibly have found a unique opportunity for the dilemma I've been having about how to grow or out-source some of my work.  I'm still a little overwhelmed, but reading this post made me realize that it's a good time for me to strongly consider why I have been saying 'yes' to things I maybe should have been saying 'no' to. 

Have a great week!