June was a busy month as usual to start off my summer season. June 11th through 14th I was at the Folk Art Center demonstrating crochet lace in the glass-enclosed lobby, a very inviting oasis for visitors after quite a walk from the parking lot to the building. Being in the first spot right inside the door allowed me to welcome visitors and give a short introduction to our galleries, museum, exhibitions and demonstrators.
May was a fast-moving blur while I was kicking off my summer season. I had several restorations coming in, enjoyed our annual Fiber Day celebration at the Folk Art Center and the kick-off to the annual Brevard Music Festival. Patrons had a lovely reception with previews of several of the operas and an opportunity to visit with new and returning students and members of the faculty. A musical taste of special things to come!
April was a fun kickoff to spring with several interesting events taking place after a long, sometimes boring winter. I completed a Daisy Wheel pattern tablecloth restoration in early April, which brought back some fun memories from long ago. Decades ago, my mother-in-law made several Daisy Wheel
Welcome Spring! Those of you who read last month’s Musings know how strongly I feel about the Olympic games and after they were finished, I could hardly wait for the Para Olympics in the same beautiful location, the Italian Alps.
1976 was the first year to include disabled athletes with their own event after the regular games concluded. Only 2 skiing events took place at that time, Alpine and Cross Country.
Now, after 50 years, 79 medal events took place with over 600 athletes participating. Since the Para Olympics started, incredible advances in prostheti
The wintery weather continued well into February until the third week, when we suddenly had record warmth in the North Carolina Mountains! A visit to Biltmore Estates with a friend had all the signs of spring: newborn lambs, tiny daffodils, and even the forsythia bushes were trying to bloom. The Creamery was a great place to have ice cream for dinner! A couple of days later, winter came back with a vengeance—2” of snow, 18 degrees on the porch, and a cyclone of snow for my friends up north.
Mother Nature really had her way with us in January; I am between last weekend’s ice storm and this weekend’s snowstorm as I write this for the first of February.
Thank God for my gas fireplace; our power was out for just one day, mostly due to the extensive work done by Duke Power after Hurricane Helene. The roads were iced over for a couple of days but now we have two to three days before the next storm is coming in.
Staying warm by the fireplace was a perfect opportunity