Im often asked

What is Art Camp?.... its so hard to explain, until you attend you really dont know.... its a camp I offer 2 times a year on the Oregon Coast, where 35 women come together from states near and far, under 1 roof to meet new roomies,and leave as one family.

It's about Women taking time off from the busy life and getting pampered for 5 days without worrying about kids, food and laundry and the sometimes rough thing called life...

We call it camp, but really there is no camp about it! the home is spectacular! a real movie theatre that seats 60! REALLY.. beds for everyone..

Our guests from Canada,Rochelle, and Christina, both incredably talented! Christina will be back next Fall to teach some fun Steampunk Art! .. I LOVE this girl Tiffany Kirchner Dixon... shes amazing inside and out.. her heart is as big as her smile..
Barb and Melissa from Oregon! they were my roomies..



Opening night women meeting all the arrivals..


Sunsets on the beach...


Missing Natalie our art camp instructor who wasnt able to attend while under going treatments for her breast cancer!
we all LOVE this girl..
This is Tiffany and Jo Packham



Girls getting too much vitamin- D outside and getting a little GOOFY! I think the cooks were sipping the wine?? Joy, Tiffany and Teresita, they are all kissing the air? hmmmmm

I was more then honored to have Jo Packham the editor in Chief of Where women create magazine, she attended the weekend retreat! she took the Sundays class learning to solder a crown! then we wisked her upstairs to the massage room where she got spoiled by our in house massage therapist for a 90 minute massage!

The tables were all set awaiting the arrivals of campers

This is me and Jo, helping her learn to solder sure was my highlight !

Christy Meyers and Billie enjoying the beautiful sunset on the beach..

so the weekend begins.. The packets were opened and the Art of the weekend began, gifts on the beds were a plenty..

The girls all working so hard...

This is blurry, its a picture of a picture of the whole group outside.. Jo Pakcham took our picture while we all yelled "WHERE WOMEN CREATE" the name of her magazine! with lots of laughter its was so much fun.. Then she has us all JUMP and YELL again ! hahaha pictures coming soon..

The camp t -shirts on all the campers beds, with gifts galore.....

So another great Art camp weekend is behind us, its really something you must attend, I enjoy watching the mothers and daughters, the sisters and mothers and friends coming with friends, I really miss my mom, I lost my mother when I was 35 yrs old,I think watching these women bring their daughter and laughing with them makes my heart skip a beat at every class, I hope these girls realize how lucky they are to have such wonderful mothers to make memories with.

My FAVORITE stop is Arizona, all these women are the sweetest women I have met yet, I watch Diane, Wendy and Candy as they are all so loving and tender, it truly melts my heart, I find myself dreaming it was my mom!.. I call Diane my mom when I am there and she treats me like I am ! I LOVE IT!

.. Art Camp is the most amazing weekend with women all together, getting spoiled with cooked meals, making art projects, sipping wine and slipping away to the massage room for a fabulous relaxing massage, and walks on the beach, the smells of fresh baked goodies, lots and lots of laughter .....

Thanks to you all whom attended, we all walked away with forever memories and extended family.....

Terri
The spring and fall camps are now onsale.. Spring will be photographed for the WHERE WOMEN CREATE magazine and its so VERY exciting...
If you have not treated yourself to this magazine, you better RUN now and Get it , at all the larger book stores!
Today I paid it forward, to a VERY deserving mother, and Wife who needs a break in life... shes a very lucky women whom I invited to the next art camp for free !... I could hear the excitement in her as she responded in DELIGHT!..

you know it feels good to do something for someone! try it!.... do that something special today..