The party is over......

My daughter Jennifer Elaine  married Dan Gannon yesterday in a ceremony at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in West Sacramento...over 300 attended the wedding and it was a fantastic time.  Only a few glitches here and there, but nothing monumental...just fun things to remember.

Dan is a farmer, landscaper, knower of all things out doors and Jenny is kindergarten teacher for Waldorf .........and the entire  Waldorf community showed up for this wedding of two of their favorite people.  Loads of family on both sides, friends from both sides showed for this fantastic event.

Dan's daughter, Frankie was the flower girl and as she announced once dressed "I'm beautiful".....

Grandpa Mike Gannon took loads of pictures and gushed after her all day long.

From the wedding, a small amount of family and wedding party gathered at Jen's home in Tahoe Park, now Dan and Jen's and Frankie's home in Tahoe Park for a mini reception......

They stripped the house of furniture and things and set up this huge dining table for 20 with a harpist playing throughout the meal....Chef Jenni Brewster served a fantastic delicious meal...yummy food for all.  A delightful day for both sides of the family and we met some very nice people along the way.  Jenny and Dan are on their way today to Mendocino for several days of "being alone with each other" before coming back the day before Thanksgiving to set up their house, move Dan and Frankie in before starting back to work and school.  Jen's two sons, August and Jack attended, adding to Jenny's delight and happiness.  It was good that her sons rallied around and supported her in her new life with Dan.

And now Grandma Weezee can get back to her regular life, the wedding dresses are hung in the closet, the flower have wilted and been thrown out, the chef has done the dishes and been paid.....back to more time to devote to hubby, my art, working the gallery, my family....thank you.

30 x 30 complete

I have completed my 30 x 30 piece...it's all ready to hang.  Thirty 6" x 6" fiber pieces in thirty days...actually it took me 18 days of constant work between this project and the wedding dresses I was putting together for my daughters wedding, which happens Nov 21.  ALL are finished...it's amazing what you can do by organizing yourself and buckling down and working hard.  I will be taking individual pics of each of the 30, those I'll post later. The picture above is how it looked prior to being mounted to the 41x41 board that holds the entire selection of 30.  That board will be mounted to the gallery wall and all the 30x30 will look the same except for their content.  Should be a stunning exhibit/show.

The entire piece consists of pictures from my childhold and a few others that have come my way.  Thanks go out to my sisters, Robin, Kim and Claire for supplying me with some of their favorites and they are featured here and there among the photos also.  Our parents saw to it that we had a wide variety of things to do....TV was not present in our home for quite some time, so we played outdoors a lot, played games, skated everywhere, biked everywhere, camped every summer, went to girl scout activities and camps year round....all on a modest budget living in the small community of Redding, California.  I call this piece, "The Good Ole' Days".....it will hang at The Blue Line Gallery on 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA from Nov 28 to Jan 9...the reception is Saturday, Dec 19, 6-9pm.

My daughter's wedding dress is complete, the flower girls dress is complete and the dress from hell, the bride's maids dress is finished....sewing on silk chamouse will never happen again in my lifetime...like sewing with air that puckers and slips into every seam you sew only to have to be removed when you find your mistake....I have sewn for years and this dress made me doubt my experience as a sewer...but it's done/complete and never to darken my sewing table again.  It's going to be hard to look at it during the wedding...I will simply divert my eyes to my daughter for sure.

Thank to everyone who gave me the support to handle all of the above.  Louise