2026-5-15 Coffee and Crafts

Mornings usually started with coffee. We each made our own. Some are earlier risers than others. I don't usually count myself among the early risers but you never know. Our site varied depending upon the shade available. Mary likes to have her rug out and with all the rain Louisiana gets, putting it on the grass is not a problem.

We all got together at various times of the day.

This particular day we decided to work on some craft projects. Olivia is a natural leader for this. She brought her acrylic paints and a huge binder of templates. Elaine had a few stencils and markers. I had some metallic markers that I initially planned to use. 

Our particular projects this day were our outside chairs. Now, Roses come prepared with many different kinds of chairs but many of us have the green or blue aluminum chairs from Harbor Freight. They are lightweight for carrying, sturdy, and reasonably priced. So when there is a gathering, it can be a bit difficult to find your own chair. My initials in magic marker sufficed until now but then we got to see Olivia's work. She started simply with her last name.

Then we started planning and plotting what we wanted to do. I was going to freehand some fancy initials.

Jimmie started with her name using stenciled letters.

Elaine already had a bee that she had done as a project started by Anne on the Winter Rolling Rally.

My freehand drawings were not everything I hoped they might be but I wasn't giving up.

I decided to try a stencil as the initial start and then freehand the rest of the way I wanted it.

Elaine decided to add some more art work to her initial work plus she wanted to work on the colors and detail of the bee.

Mary got Olivia to work on her "Canadian" chairs bought on her RV journey in Canada.

Now, you might think that Hail Mary is a little "Queenly" but the name of Mary's RV is the "Hail Mary" named when it hailed on her within hours of her first use. There is usually a story behind RV names but sometimes you have to ask about it.

Elaine's finished product.....or is it.....you never know.

Jimmie's chair art on her brand new chair.....the seat disintegrated on the one she brought with her but Deridder has a Harbor Freight so she was back in business.

Carolyn also got our artistic Olivia to work some magic on her chair. It says "Cajun Demoiselle" which, you guessed it, is the name of her RV displayed proudly on the back of the travel trailer. It means Cajun lady and Carolyn definitely is that.

Olivia is faster at this than all of us so she had time to add and trim out some beautiful starfish on her chair.

All in all, it was a very fun time. But I still have another chair with nothing but initials on it and I guess you will just have to camp with me to see what is on my chairs because I didn't get a picture, lol.