Susan's Collection of Chinese Slippers

Silk Children's slippers. You get the animal that rules your birth year.

Dinner Party @ Susan Abbott's Lovely Highlands Home

Susan may give Rick a run for his title of best table decor. She had a small intimate (girls only) dinner party in the middle of the week. It was wonderful!

I thought, why don't I entertain more! That is my resolution in 2011. Gather more with friends and family. So right after this lovely event I had 10 over for Thanksgiving. Yikes! Glad I had the food catered!

20 Dollar Art Show

Saturday,December 11,@ The Clifton Art Supply. 6-9 pm. No one can remember how long this has been going on. Scott thinks it's the 10th year. Great way to purchase art. All art is 20-. Always a fun event!

Showgirls

Jamison Brumm, Deb Chenault, Theresa Kibby, Ruby Ballard, and Me. The last time we were all together was at Art in the Highlands. Happy Holidays Showgirls! See you in the new year!

Ruby Ballard / Ruby's Wraps

Rode on Ruby's coat tails....as she won Best Of Show in Excellence this year at the Columbus Winerfair. Her Ruby Wrap's Jackets are made from African Mud Cloth. Ruby prefers traditional jacket designs. Her jacket linings pop with color. She is soooo picky about her seams, buttons, lining, fit, etc.... Her repeat customers all come to give her compliments and buy another jacket. I was soooo happy for her it was as if I won the award. After the show we went to find a JoAnne's Fabrics to spend that award money on liner fabric for Ruby! I too can always manage to find something at JoAnne's Fabrics.

Santa ??????

This is Just Michael not Santa in his street clothes. Michaiel paints and has an original fashion sense. You can't see his bright orange high top tennis shoes or the fab painted cane he sports. He can be found at just.michael@live.com

The show was fun and busy. Saw all my regular Columbus Peeps. Traveled the show with Ruby Harris Ballard. Ruby's booth is usually next to mine but not this year. So it came as a big surprise when she won a booth award and I wasn't next to her to lower the expectations of the jury. Her award was for excellence. More on Ruby later. I was so happy for her. The award included cash! Which is always good thing.