Painting with the Aunties

We have a long standing tradition of a family Girls Night Out.  My Mom, Aunt Pam, Aunt Melinda and I love to get together and eat, drink and make merry.  A few years ago Pam retired and moved to New Mexico where her son and his family live.  Since then our family moved overseas, my Mom started working more, and Melinda's kids grew up and got super busy-making her super busy too. Since our return to the US the nights out have been sparse, but we try hard to make time in our mismatched schedules.

This month we had time for not one but TWO nights out to celebrate Pam being in town!  Our most recent was dinner out followed by Canvas and Cocktails. If you don't know the drill, you drink and paint along with a group.  It's pretty easy, there's a leader who helps you step by step and gives you ideas of how to mix colors, etc. Even if you aren't artistic at all you can handle this kind of painting.  If you don't like what's being offered that night you're free to paint whatever you choose. We had a good time and since it wasn't our first time we felt a little more free to experiment with colors, etc this go round.

The teacher's painting is there in the back.  Our little corner of the shop was definitely the contrary corner, we were the only ones who broke away from the suggested color scheme and Pam went Kandinsky style.

It was also Halloween dress night. If you wore anything resembling a costume you qualified for a free glass of wine.  Meet Ms. Money and the Purple Fairy.

It doesn't take much to get us all wound up and goofy!