When things just fall together ....

... its a beautiful thing! An unexpected invitation brought five women together who quickly bonded, created awesome art, formed great friendships and had a very memorable long weekend.

Here's what happened .....

Cheryl from Ten Seconds Studio invited Terri, Roxanne and I to come enjoy a long weekend with her at her Bra Free Lake House. Carolyn from The Crafty Scrapper in Texas joined us too. Of course, we accepted .... upon arriving at the Lake House, the first thing we saw was the beautiful view from the deck overlooking the lake and inlet.

We then proceeded to turn the house into our art studio. Cheryl has done a grand job at setting this place up with lighting, supplies, table space and all the necessities a group needs for a great get together.

Roxanne volunteered to do all the food planning and cooking .... and she totally spoiled us. We ate like queens ....

This gorgeous creature came to visit every day, but this evening he came right up to us, stayed for awhile (he wanted dinner, I think) and then floated off into the sunset .....

The weather was perfect and we enjoyed many of our meals on the deck ....

enjoying the beautiful scenery ......

We were up early and stayed up very late (or is that early when you're referring to 2 am) creating together and inspiring each other. The slow burn technique that Terri and I learned from Julie Haymaker was a huge hit ... in fact, once we got everyone started with the woodburning it seemed like we were looking for any thing and any shape we could burn and color.

Here's a look at a few of the things we created with woodburning, paints, color pencils, paper and metal ......

And it was impossible to pick a favorite ......

Thank you Cheryl for a very special weekend.

If you're looking for a place to spend a bit of "girl" time, check out the Bra Free lake house or the country house ... I found it rather magical! You can get details on renting either location here

And now I'm off to put the finishing touches on a few of those projects ...

Enjoy your week!