We just got home on Tuesday from our trip to International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, CA. It was a great show, but all of the Quilt Festivals are great. They had a lot more quilts than last year and it seemed like more vendors as well.

It was a delight to meet Carol Ireland of San Diego, who modeled the denim shirt that she had embellished using Pippa Moore's pattern JOY. She painted the clouds using Lumiere paints. After seeing our Angelina demos, she said she would use that from now on. She teaches a class in this so watch your quilt shops in San Diego and sign up!

She embellished it to the nines. All kinds of bugs, bead and baubles.

We had our usual great team helping in the booth.

Here is my cousin Dorothy Hammell demoing our foiling supplies and Paintstiks.

Here is Allyson Volkman demoing Angelina. She worked for us last year, too.

Also demoing Angelina were Marion Shimoda and Lisa Coulombe. They all did a terrific job!

We took a small detour home via Sonoma to do a little (or a lot!) wine tasting. On the way to Sonoma, we caught site of a tire flying across the freeway. It missed our windshield by about 3" and left skid marks on the side of the trailer. Whew!

When we got home, we discovered that a family of racoons had moved in under our deck. Once the dog got home, they decided to move out, fortunately.

Portland had experienced a week long heat wave of 100 degrees and higher while we were gone and my poor garden is fried!