The Birthday Girl!

It's Official! C-Level is now our Birthday Hangout! We all seem to love it...it's always a good view...our Birthday Booth is always open AND we always get the best servers! Marcia (Birthday Girl) even picked it as the place to go after just being there 2 nights before! Now that's what I call - lovin' it!

The conversation was sprinkled with all our creativity coming to blossom - Marcia had just finished a weekend creating an "Art Stick" and when she shared that she was using her broken sea urchin...all we could visualize were the pieces pictured on her blog that reminded us of "ta ta's"!

BUT, after hearing her colorfully describing how they have been changed to become part of a fish...we began to see them much differently! But the "process" was the real key element...how to get out of our usual perspective and "see" things differently. Something we all try to do, but often get stuck in the "same ole, same ole"!

Listening to her talk, and hearing Val talk about a self-publishing site she had just discovered, and wondering how we each come into our own creativity...I suggested we collaborate on a book about creating. Each of us explaining our creative process...Marcia thought we should also have a step-by-step project from each of us. So here it is...the first kernel of thought!

Lunch was delicious - as usual and the desert was an amazing piece of mud pie about as tall as a skyscrapper! Of course we didn't hesitate on the size and promptly enjoyed every calorie filled bite!

Marcia's gifts were as varied, as all of our creative minds are...Val added to Marcia's beautiful gold embossed glass collection, Gail gifted her a book on Succulent Container Gardening (ps...Marcia's back yard is almost ready for landscaping), Susan gave her colorful coasters (handmade) for her Studio and I gave her a small crystal wind chime for studio or deck.

As always our time ended too quickly, so we all decided to go to Gail's to check in on Jeremy's Koi pond project. And we were amazed...sorry I didn't get a picture. Gail - you'll need to blog us some "in process" pictures!

The pond is layered with creatively placed river rocks, flagstone (?) slate for "Koi cave" roofs and places for in-water and edging plants!

How fabulous this will be when it's all done, with Pergola, cantilevered decking and chandeliers!
Can't wait!

Susan's Birthday Next!