ACCORDION GETS WORKOUT

June 1 2010. There’s a small group of us that play music 2 times a month, taking place at one of our houses. There’s a couple of fiddlers, fluteists, guitars and me on accordion. We mostly play Irish music, as one of our goals is to be good enough to play with the […]

BUTTONS FOR CHEER COUNSELING OPEN HOUSE

Originally posted on 11/26/2010 @ 9:12:17 am by creatingbuttons.com At one of the meetings I attend for Internet people, I met a gal that has a counseling serviced called Cheer Counseling (cheercounseling.com). It’s in Brandon. I made buttons for the kids she counsels, and now she was having an open house for a second buildikng […]

FALL FLING INTERNATIONAL DANCE BUTTONS

originally posted on 11/28/2010 The last weekend in October – and yet one more thing to do! Andi and Ursula drove over to Melbourne on Friday night and danced with the Melbourne club. I went the following day instead with Bill, to our annual Fall Fling – a day of international folk dancing hosted by […]

DUPLICATE BRIDGE BUTTONS

Originally posted on 4/14/2009 @ 7:39:47 am by creatingbuttons.com My mom earned a math scholarship to college, but it was during the depression, so instead she went to secretarial school, and spent the rest of her life typing. But the genius in the brain continued through the exciting game of bridge. Over the years […]

BOOK CLUB MEETS AGAIN

Originally posted on 12/23/2010 @ 6:07:45 pm by creatingbuttons.com 

Jewish Book Club (Moadon Ha Safer) this month was about the book entitled “In the Neighborhood” by Peter Lovenheim. It’s a true story about a murder in his neighborhood (in Rochester) by a physician, who killed his physician wife. She knew that something was wrong, and […]

FENCING NAC IN CINCINNATI HONORS ME!

originally posted 11/12/2010 @ 7:35:26 am on creatingbuttons.com

Home from CA on Monday, leave Thursday for Cincinnati for a NAC – North American Cup – one of 3 tournaments for me to qualify for the USA team and go to World Championships. Well, this year, I’m not going again, as they are in Bulgaria – […]

FOLK DANCING IN NORTH CAROLINA

originally posted 9/8/2010 @ 1:05:30 pm on creatingbuttons.com

Andi, Jen and I went to “The Mountain” in North Carolina for the 15th year of Karmiel USA (2010), an Israeli Dance Camp Weekend. We left on Thursday, drove 5 hours, stayed at a Holiday Inn, and spent 5 more hours getting to the venue on Friday, […]

HUGE WEEKEND CONTINUES

Originally posted 11/24/2010 @ 9:37:25 am by creatingbuttons.com It started with the Fall Ball on Friday night, continuing with contra dancing on Saturday, interspersed with Patty’s birthday party, and back to dancing, well worth the driving as it was a great band and caller. Sunday morning the dancing continued with a marvelous out doors breakfast […]