After feasting Thanksgiving Day, we got up at o dark thirty to brave the elements and people and do a little Black Friday shopping. Then on Saturday I had to go into work for a little while and then we decided to do this studio tour. Getting a later start we decided to skip the furthermost studios ( which i had been to in previous years) and meet up with firends at the Holly Grove Vineyards.
Mom and I ready to do a little tasting!
Friends Carol and Steve who began the tour at the first stop in Cape Charles, met us there and we all had a great time. I have to say, I really enjoyed all of the wines we tasted and did a purchase order to begin to carry several of them in our restaurant.
Our next stop was Highpoint Glass Works where Ken Platt was doing a demo and serving hot spiced cider and cookies. Carol and I ordered handblown fruit fly catcher bottles. A very handy thing to have here on the shore come late August and September!
We then stopped by Copper Creations and watched Don Drew do his magic with copper. Carol and I were in awe of all his cool tools and antique rolling mills which he demo'd for us. We each purchased some of his yard pieces, I got a dragonfly, Carol got a crab sculpture, and some frogs. He then took us on a tour of his huge Koi pond and yard sculpures before sending us on our way with a box of scrap copper to use in our jewelry. He also invited us to come back and learn welding with him anytime. Sounds like a plan!
We went by the Onancock School which has been turned into studio spaces with other guild exhibitors before heading up to Bruce Hoover of As The Wood Turns. Dad and Steve especially enjoyed this stop as my Dad is a woodturner and Steve just purchased his first lathe to begin woodturning. After the tour ended we all headed back to our restaurant for an enjoyable dinner and a visit including having a cake to celebrate my parents' 52nd wedding anniversary before Carol and Steve headed back home to Maryland.
Happy 52nd Anniversay Mom and Dad and may you share many more!
Sunday my parents left my sister's house and came down to stay with us for the week before they get ready to go visit my brother in New Jersey. On Monday, we took a drive to the Blue Crow Antique Mall where I was renting a checkout counter display case for the past 2 years for my jewelry. I had made the decision to close it out and remove what I had left as it had become too difficult to maintain since it is about 45 minutes away from my home.
All in all it was a busy but very enjoyable long weekend!
Cool! Looks and sounds like you all had a great time! I am so jealous of that box of scrap copper :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great time you had! Nothing better than to spend time with friends and family. Congratulations to your parents ... 52 years! Wow! And, they look like they're still in love!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post, Laura! Now I'm all caught up (with the latest, anyway). CONGRATS to your parents on 52 years of marriage! I am in awe -how incredible. And they look so young and happy too....you're a chip off the old block.:-)
ReplyDeleteWow, that art walk looked incredible! So much fun, and with CAROL to boot!!! How fun that Carol came down - I know the two of you had a blast (ending the day with cake on top of it all!)
I would have loved to have seen those antique rolling mills too. And Blue Crow antiques - we drove all the way out there over the summer too...it was much farther than we expected, but we made it! I bought a few vintage jewelry boxes there at the best prices I've ever seen.
-Cindy