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Archive for April, 2009

A Boring Monday

Monday, April 20th, 2009

It was a beautiful day, again. I had to spend a lot of my day taking care of registration details for the SDA conference. The work is not as intense, now. Stuff sort of dribbles in and I let it pile up for a few days. I had theology class tonight so I had to do some homework this afternoon.

Tonight, I did some more cutting on the pieces for my 12 X 12 challenge. I can’t really show you what I am doing, but here are my scraps. What can you tell from this?

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That’s all from here!

Sunday in the Park with Maggie

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

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What a beautiful day it was. Yesterday, Mia called us with a class assignment. She had to ask 5 adults what their favorite place in Portland is and why. I told her it was the Rhodie Garden because it is such a beautiful place and practically in our backyard. I can go every day, year round and find beauty and peace.

Today, Maggie and I joined the throngs who were enjoying the beauty on a late afternoon of incredible warmth and light from the sun. I have probably taken photos like these every year, but I never tire of the lovely spring colors.

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One section of the garden is being renovate. They are doing some major stone work. Here are some of the supplies.

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I love the look of the construction fence snaking through the vegetation. You can see all of today’s photos on my Flickr set.

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I have some pretty things in my yard, too. I planted bulbs last fall and I love these tulips and daffies.

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A few weeks ago, the raspberries were just sticks in the ground. Now, look at them.

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Another Opening, Another Show

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Not Philadelphia or Buffalo, but Roseburg, Oregon. A smallish city between Ashland and Eugene, Oregon. Out Line Dancing show with a horizontal lime green line in each piece is now hung at the Umpqua Valley Art Association. See more photos on my Flickr Set about the show.

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It looks really great! My Indigo Construction piece is on a smoked glass room divider as you walk in. It really looked fabulous.

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Here are some overview shots:

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The tree is one of Terry’s pieces.

My Sea of Salt piece is on the right in this shot.

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Here are two more of Terry’ pieces.

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Even the food was lime green dancing inspired. All of the staff wore lime green. They were really into it!!

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One of the galleries had a fabulous basket show. When my quilts come home, this one is coming home with them. And, of course, it has lime green lines.

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There were nine of us at the reception and 4 husbands. We had a good time.

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Carol, Mary and Maarja.

More photos can be seen on my Flickr Line Dance Show set.

My Complements

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

I have been designing my next 12 X 12 challenge piece. Yesterday, I was auditioning hand-dyed fabrics and realized I needed some additional solids. So this morning, I whipped up these.

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My piece will use the Warhol color scheme of complements. Here are my possibilities. I need 4 sets. I may do two sets of complements and reverse them.

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The next thing I need to do is print my design on Wunder Under and then fussy cut the design and fuse the two colors together.

Tomorrow, Mr C and I are heading south to Roseburg where the High Fiber Diet show, Line Dancing, is opening. If you are near Roseburg (Ha!) come on by  the Umpqua Valley Arts Center between 5 and 7 pm. It is a 3 hour drive from Portland, so we are going to spend the night.

I just have to say, that after reading comments on yesterday’s blog, I fell like such a composting slacker/prima donna!!

The Compost Post (not heap)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I spent some time today looking into devices for composting kitchen and yard waste for my farm. I spent the afternoon checking out some local sources – most are out or didn’t have what I wanted. So back home to the computer. I ordered this for the backyard:

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This turns so that you can continually mix up your compost stuff.

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This lovely will reside in the kitchen to collect waste to go down to the composter. It has a carbon filter in the lid to cut down on odors (I hope) I’m hoping that having something this attractive will encourage me to save the garbage and get it into the composter.

This morning I also did some work on my 12 X 12 challenge. I auditioned some fabrics, but I think I need to dye some colors that I am missing. I also finished the Photoshop design that I will use.

Tonight, I discharged one of the pieces from the shibori class. I wrapped it on a pvc pipe and sloshed on some Sunlight Dishwasher detergent. It discharged the outer edge so I washed and dried it and wrapped it the other way. It now looks like this:

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The photo is not that great as I took it in the kitchen just now. It looks better than this. Here is a thumbnail of the fabric before I went at it with bleach.

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