I cannot believe I made this bowl - the first one went flying off the wheel in a fright, but my second turned out great! The instructor said to plan to throw everything out from our first lesson ... so I was elated with this! Back at it again on Sunday ... who knows I may be able to drop my day/night job yet!

Finally met wee Maeve last weekend, she was 5 days in these photos. She is beautiful, peaceful and oh so tiny. Obviously Jessica and Eli are beyond ecstasy over her!

I made this slideshow two years ago - Katherine and Andy have seen it. I updated it a bit to use for my classes today, most of whom did not know why the poppy symbolizes the war dead. If you use the link, it will take a few minutes for the clip to upload, and then you need to click at the top VIEW SLIDE SHOW. It should work and I hope you like it. The music needs to linger a bit at the end but ... it doesn't. I used "Farewell to Funeray" by Tannahil Weavers which I think reflects the tragedy of war. So sad, to think of all the lives lost, including our own uncles Lawrence and Alexander.

Jessica and Eli had their fist baby - a girl - on Sunday night - they went to the birthing clinic in Aigle (just down the mountain near the castle) at 8 in the morning and Maeve was born at 8:30 that evening - they were home at midnight! I'll see her this weekend and post a photo then! I am so excited to see her.

I love to look through my photos of Madeline, Alex, Iris and Ella. Right now I'm finding the ones I want to put up in frames and it's so hard to choose, I love all my photos of my four, soon to be five beautiful angels.