1st day at the conference

We had a wonderful day at the conference. I am so happy to see some old friends and meeting some friends I have met online for the first time.

My mom attended our opening. Well, she has grown flowers and pressed for one of my classes I will teach. I am so proud of of her.

Our inspiration Cellestine made to the conference. She has even done a demo of her framing method to us. I am so happy to finally see her in person.

The competition result is announced at the conference. Unfortunately I have left the result sheet inside the classroom so please be patient for one more day. Here are the 3 first place winners. It is too bad that I cannot remember the persons' names for category 1 and category 3.

Beautiful artworks!

I spent 1/2 day judging many beautiful pressed flower artworks with 2 other judges. Competition is very tough this year with so many wonderful entries. We still have more works to do tomorrow. Our work is not easy since every piece is so good.

Had a nice dinner with all the friends at the hotel. I still have to pack up the last things for tomorrow's setup. We are almost ready for the conference. It is so exciting to see all the old friends and meeting new ones.

Most of the members arrived have either enjoyed the pool or had fun in Downtown Disney. Some are even driving all over S. CA. I am very happy to see everyone having good time. We will have 3 packed days together. It is great when everyone is rested up after long trips.

Members are arriving

As it is closer to the conference, members are arriving. We have people from China, Canada, and PA, USA arrived.

I took a few friends to the Huntington Library and Botanical Garden today. We had great time. These ladies were very tired by the end of the day.

We first went to have some Chinese lunch. We each had a nice cold drink before heading to the Huntington Library. It was pretty hot today. We only had time to walk in the formal garden, the new Chinese garden, the Japanese garden, and the rose garden. Wish we have more time to enjoy the lovely ground of Huntington Library.

I remember the Pressed Flower Gallery is near by. We stopped there. The gallery was closed. We were trying to peak in. Fortunately May's brother is still there. I have introduced ourselves and asked if we could go in to look around. He was very nice letting us in. Then May came as well. Here we are in front of the Pressed Flower Gallery.

I had to stop by to get some shaved ice after a hot day. Everyone enjoyed some. We then decided to have dinner and wait for the traffic to die down there. We had nice Shanghai dishes.

Getting back to the creative mode

It has been so long since I last posted. Work just got into the way of things... We finally got to a point that we can live our normal lives again.

I have been trying to figure out how to do natural print on silk scarf. It is frustrating sometimes during the try and err period. I finally figured it out!!! It is so pretty. I am very pleased with the result. This will be taught at the conference. It is so much fun once I have things figured out.

As promised to my April class students that I have made a little dog picture and posted in the class group.

I also had a little time to sit down and plan out a small landscape project for the conference in case Liuba cannot make it. Although I can imitate Liuba's style of design, I just could not come up with 40+ sets of materials. Oh well! Everyone will just have to learn my style then. I am very pleased with this design. I hope students will not be disappointed. Planning a class is so much different from making my own designs. I enjoy doing the planning.

Judith in my in-person class said that her little rabbit has won the scrap book contest. She used my idea on mounting. I am so proud of her!

Philly Flower Show (Part 3)

The landscape exhibition at the PFS was so impressive.

This is just one of them. It is hard to imagine how much work it was to do this type of large scale landscape complete with ponds in the convention center. Just forcing all the trees and flowers to bloom this time of the year in Philadelphia alone is a daunting task.

Philly Flower Show (Part 2)

It took awhile to upload all of the pressed flower competition pictures. The entries are amazing. Click the link to view my album.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=51diydl5.a84nil1p&x=0&y=dbhs8c
I tried to associate pictures with name, class, and award but I could be wrong in some cases. If anyone sees any mistakes, please contact me. It is hard to remember every picture's details. I was busy just enjoying to view all the beautiful entries.

Philly Flower Show (Part 1)

I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show and served as a judge. This is the first time I have physically been in the show. I had great time. Judging was very difficult since all of the entries are so good. We worked from 8am to 2:30pm to finish submitting all the categories and best of the blues. This one has received the best of the blues. It is such a master piece. We can't stop looking at all the details.

Many of the guild members have participated. I am very happy to see that. Many have won ribbons.



There was a student judge with us. I found out that they have to serve as a student judge (their points would not be counted) to learn before they could serve as a regular judge. She told me that her mentor told her to go to Kate Chu's website to learn about pressed flowers before coming to the show. Wow! I am so honored. Many other judges knew about me too. I worked very well with the other two judges in our team. They said that they have actually learned a few things from me. I am glad.