Dora's Way 2.0

It is hard to believe we have only been in Tucson for two weeks, considering all that we have done. Last weekend I (Mari) attended a workshop to learn about micro-mosaic jewelry. Here is a photo of the rectangular pendant that I made: Precision Mosaic Jewelry with Margo Anton I took the workshop in Tucson at DiMosaico, which is a wonderful little shop that sells all things mosaic.  On our second day here, Ron and I signed up for the Desert Trails Clay Club. So, the following day, we got an introduction to hand-building with clay from Gwen, the organizer of the group. Ron started a little house and I started a turtle. I was able to complete my turtle during that week. It is on its way to the kiln now. Before I finished the turtle, I began working on an owl, which, like the turtle, is made using the pinch pot method. It is slightly more advanced, though, because you put two pinch pots together to form an "egg", then you proceed with adding eyes and wings, etc.  ...

Somehow last week I was able to add a new post to our old blog, Dora's Way. I am not sure how it happened, or why it is that now I cannot add another post. I simply could not find a way to add a new post to the old blog site. So, I created a new site, and here goes another try at re-starting our travelogue. Week 1 saw us leaving St. Louis onNovember 24 and traveling as far as Rusty's RV Park near Rodeo, New Mexico. One week later, on Sunday, December 1, we arrived at our winter destination: Desert Trails RV Park outside of Tucson, Arizona. Kansas Tree Conestoga wagon seen at the Chiricahua Desert Museum near Rodeo, New Mexico It turns out that the rain, wind and cool weather we experienced in Kansas and New Mexico, were very similar to weather conditions here in Tucson. Some people had already arrived at the park in late October through November. There were a record number of people at the park's Thanksgiving meal, so much so that they overflowed into a second b...