Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Today I'm in Jerome AZ at Nellie Bly learning to make kaleidoscopes!  Take a look at my previous post and you will see why I love kaleidoscopes and Nellie Bly.   http://www.lindabrittdesign.blogspot.com/2012/11/trip-to-jerome-az-changes.html That me multiplied! My classes today are by Sue Rioux  http://sueriouxdesigns.com/   (morning class) and Kathleen Hunt   http://www.kaleidoart.org/home.html   (afternoon class).  Every year Nellie Bly offers a weekend on October to take classes from great teachers where the students learn about how to make a kaleidoscope.  Now I get to attend! I have no idea where this will lead and what I will do with my new knowledge but I'll be sharing with you.  I'm so excited to be doing this!

Taking a day trip to Jerome AZ should not be such a big deal for three girlfriends since we live in Prescott – not so far away.   Finding a day that worked for all of us took a while!   I’ve wanted to go to Nellie Bly ‘the biggest kaleidoscope store in the world’ for 16 years!   They have been open for 25 years but I’ve only known they existed for 16.     We left at 10 a.m. and lunched in Jerome at ‘Grapes’.   Each of us ordered a different dish and shared great food and fun.     Sounds like a girl’s day out, doesn’t it?   We visited just about every store.   Of course, I stayed in Nellie Bly’s a long time.   I just missed the annual workshop teaching how to make those incredible tubes of color and changing shapes.   It’s on my calendar for next year. If you haven’t guessed, I’m crazy for kaleidoscopes.   Once when there were many things happening in my life, I took a class called ‘Changes’.   There was discussion on why and how changes affect us, what we could do to help ou