Quartet Christmas

Pepper, the sewing cat, helping me with my projects

We met at Sue's house for Quartet last week. We had dinner (salad and lasagne) and then sat around the fire in her stove fireplace and had cheesecake left over from an earlier event at the Box Factory.

In December we exchange simple gifts with each other and I decided to make decorative pillows with a photo image of the sign on the side of the Box Factory, which my husband, Tom, took several years ago for a poster. I made a pillow for myself too, and it's on my sofa in my writing studio.

I thought it was an especially fitting image, because we all met through our connections to the Box Factory and it means a lot to each of us, especially Ali since she's the executive director here now and logs a lot of hours in the joint.

It's a fun place to hang out, surrounded by other artists of all kinds, who are there to talk if you want, but will leave you alone if you need to concentrate. It's a place for creativity and expanding visions. And it's a pretty cool building too - 103 years and counting!

It's good to get out of the house to work and clear the cobwebs out of my brain - after all I can't stay at home sewing with kittys every day!