Vivid Living: 2012

Monday, August 13, 2012

Carver County Fair

The Carver County Fair was in our neighborhood last week. We had wonderful weather and we so enjoyed watching the families pass by from our porch! It was a lively week outside of the Lighthouse. We so look forward to this every year. We did sneak over to the fair on Thursday and visited the cows, horses, 4-H building and the art exhibits submitted by the Lighthouse residents. The residents recieved quite a few ribbons!

Barb & Sarah join Viola and friends

The crew: (back row) Barb, Amy, Lois

(front row) Viola, Sue & Bill

Vangie's daughter Sue recieved the Champion purple ribbon for her painting of "Flossie" the cow. We're so proud of her!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Quilts for a purpose

The Vivid Living neighborhood has started making quilts! The quilts will be donated to a charity. Of course the first two were baby quilts...so soft and made with lots of love! Amy (our new Activities Director) also suggested pillows - sounds good to us!

Volunteer Lois, Viola & her daughter Barb finish the first quilt

Like we said...made with lots of love:)

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

More than an Art Studio

We have a lovely art studio in our Vivid Living neighborhood, but what we've found is that it's so much more than an important space to create...here we meet new friends, encourge each other's creativity and enjoy each other's company. It would be fun to put in a "laughter meter"...but then again it might break:)