A lovely weekend down in Sarasota!

 

  The Hilltop gang was down at Fun N Sun this past weekend for Winter Retreat East and we had a ball.  It was held in the Cypress room this time which turned out to be great.

Barb (from Ft Myers) and I roomed again and that's always fun.  We had a nice crowd down there and it was relaxing and we all got a lot done.  The weather was fantastic too.  Boy that place was FULL of snowbirds, the fullest I've ever seen it.  They just built their new exercise/indoors pool building which is fantastic! 

 

The pool was huge and heated!  They have all kinds of classes offered too and it's open to everyone 12 and older if you're staying there plus they're going to offer yearly memberships and a daily rate I believe, in the summertime for nearby residents.  That whole resort is huge and taken care of so nice.  It's always a pleasure staying there.

Linda did her usual wonderful cooking which included a baked potato bar one afternoon, baked ziti and salad and garlic bread for dinner and sausage biscuits,pancakes, eggs and bacon for breakfast so we ate well!  Friday night we all headed over to Yoder's again for a yummy dinner and their wonderful pie to go.  I get the coconut cream which is to die for!

Some of the things I worked on was this wreath which I need to spread out the green area tonight while I'm watching TV...

I made it with fabric squares and it was fun to make.  I also used a Laura  Denison tutorial and made this album from scratch for Valentines Day...

Kathy Lubenthal was making some of her stick pins and I loved these! 

She sells them for $1.50 a piece which is very reasonable I think.  Of course, Miss Chulupa was there in her winter coat and she actually had pearls on too but I couldn't get a pic of them! 

 Typepad has added some new features and it's acting wonky today so I think I'll close now before I lose this!  Hope you're having a good week!