It started off in a fish bowl. There I met many of the friends I visit and chat with daily. All of us creative mavens, but mostly, all of us live very far apart. As the years have gone by, we've swapped different lovlies, watched our children and art grow, created together, and have just lived.

Emily of Mousy Brown's House and I have been wanting to meet up for some time now. Would it be at Scwam? Would it be on my side of the pond, the US, or on her side of the pond, the UK? Would it be solo or with our families? We had a world of possibilites until finally one day I said,"I'm coming. When should I come? That's when Em said,"Why not come for my 40th birthday? We could make it a long weekend."

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It was all very enticing because as you know I'm a fiber addict and her parties in a yarn shop.

So today my bags are packed and within one hour I'll be at the airport on my way to Wales. I've never been to Wales and I'm very excited about it. Get ready for the adventures of Em and Val. So for the rest of this week and during the weekend I will be off but then on Tuesday I'll head to Paris to spend a few days in my favorite city. There, I plan to reconnect and share a few traveller's tale. Until then, be well.

 

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20 responses to “A Traveller’s Tale”

  1. Laurie Avatar
    Laurie

    Safe travels, my friend, and have fun! Wales is on my bucket list of places to visit so I’ll be sure to follow your journey! Hope you packed your bag half full so you can bring back some yarns from Em’s shop!

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  2. gardenmama Avatar

    That is amazing Valarie!!
    Enjoy your time and wish Em a very happy birthday from me! xoxo

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  3. Swedish House Avatar

    Hej Valarie
    Have a wonderful weekend!
    Safe journey & please give the lovely Em a hug n kiss from me 🙂
    A party in a YARN SHOP how fantastic! Very novel.
    Dit Bonjour a Paris aussi mon amie
    LOVE PEACE enJOY ENJOY ENJOY!
    Puss o Kram
    Julie
    x

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  4. marcia at Child in Harmony Avatar

    enJOY Valarie! Can’t wait to hear about your travels!
    happy day!
    love marcia

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  5. Jacqueline Avatar

    WOW sweet Valarie, this is awesome!! How wonderful to be able to celebrate sweet emily’s birthday and to meet up face to face! I just know the both of you will have a blast!! Please share with us how the meeting went. 🙂 I knwo it’s gonna be so inspiring and just amazing! Have alovely merry happy day and lovely time with sweet beautiful emily! Love to you!

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  6. Kate England Avatar

    Absolutely wonderful! I’m sure you’ll have so much fun and I can’t wait to hear all about it!!!!! x

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  7. grace Avatar

    How cool! ENJOY!!!

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  8. Gypsy Forest Avatar

    so amazing Valarie….. wishing you a wonderful trip full of good memory making sort of moments!

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  10. Heather Avatar

    Hope that you have had a wonderful trip! Can’t wait to hear all about it :).

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  11. Jacqueline Avatar

    Dearest sweet Valarie, missing you! I hope you are having a blast with sweet Em!! I can’t wait to hear all about it! Have a lovely merry happy holiday and love to yoU!

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  12. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Had a great time Laurie. Wales is just beautiful. Hope you get there soon. I brought back yarn. 🙂

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  13. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    We had the greatest time and have so much in common. As if we had lived next door to eachother for a lifetime. Wales is so beautiful and the people so kind.

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  14. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Hej Julie,
    Hope your trip to London is going well. I felt so dang badly that I just barely missed you. This summer in Sweden hopefully. Gosh, I guess I’m just blog bashing all over the planet now.
    Puss och kram och ha det brå så länge

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  15. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Thanks Marcia. Had a great trip!

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  16. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Hi Jacqueline,
    Whether you know it or not you were with us. We talked about you and all of your cute little creations. We had a great time. Hope all is well. Happy creating and big hugs.

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  17. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Hi Grace. I’m back and so happy I went. We had a great time. I love today’s haiku by the way. Just equisitely beautiful.

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  18. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Greetings. I really missed you and my visits over to Gypsey Forest. We had a great time. It was such a wonderful trip.

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  19. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    I had a great time Heather. I’m telling everyone all about it. It was such a wonderful occasion and fantastic to meet Em and see Wales.

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  20. Valarie Budayr Avatar

    Missed you more. Big hugs and love back to you.

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