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Toot Sweet

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

I had a minor disaster yesterday. I lost the screw from the hinge on my new red glasses. I know there are repair kits, but these were so new that I wanted to make sure they got repaired properly. That was not my disaster. I went out to the Kaiser Vision Center to get them fixed after lunch. I also stopped at Macy’s to find something to wear to my upcoming semi-fancy holiday events. I found a nice glittery gold sweater that I can wear with black or brown pants. That was easy.

I got home with just barely enough time to dial in for an SDA teleconference with the San Antonio conference staff. My computer was not behaving. I couldn’t open mail where the e-mail with the phone  and code were. It said I had to close mail and restart to repair the index. It proceeded to download over 10000 e-mails, most were in my delete file. It took almost an hour to get the e-mail working again. Some of the retrieved e-mails were totally blank. So that was my disaster. I missed the tele-conference and had to apologize to every one.

This morning we were to have new insulated honeycomb shades installed in the kitchen. He was supposed to come between 9 and 11. At 11, I made a call to find out what was up. He was running late which was a problem because Scooter needed to be taken for a walk, Mr C had a dental hygiene appt. and I had a hair cut appt.  He turned up at 11:30 and took no time at all to do the install. Scooter got walked and we made our appts. The shades are beautiful – bronze in color – to match the woodwork and the granite counter top. I loved the curtains that I had made from a mid-century fabric, but they got too messy over the sink. We decided we wanted a cleaner, less fussy look.

I have been working on the next and last 12 x 20 piece for the Twelve blog. The theme is sweet. I came up with jazz as my quilt theme because you know, jazz is s-weet! Here are some of the fabrics I am working with and for once, I am not going out to buy more batiks.

I am having fun working on this. The reveal is 12/12/2012!!

Here is today’s 3 x 3.

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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

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Redemption

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

I thought if I confessed to all of you that I am a slob in my studio that it would be an incentive to get organized. It worked. The only way I can do mundane clean-up is to play a game with myself. I set the timer for 20 minutes and do as much as I can. When the buzzer goes off, I get to check in on FB, play with the dog or just relax. Then I set the timer again. Pretty soon, my studio was in pretty good shape,

The print table got a new cover. I just need to staple it.

The cutting table can be used for a cutting table once again.

The thread is put back into the thread caddy.

And, my overflow work table next to the sewing machine is cleaned up once again.

I love getting it together. Now, I need to start on the Sweet 12 x 20.

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Coming Clean

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

I wish I was a tidier creative person, but I am not. I make giant messes that get so bad, I can’t continue until I get it cleaned up again. When I am working on 2 or more projects at the same time, it just doubles the detritus covering every surface.

Here is my cutting table – this mess was generated doing 3 x 3’s.

This is my print table which has an accumulation of stuff from fusing that was done on the table next to it plus paints and foil, and who knows what else.

I have another table next to my sewing area that has an accumulation of stuff, too.

And, the little pull out table on my sewing machine cabinet holds all the thread I have been working with for the last month or so.

All this stuff has a place, but I get so into the creativity, that I don’t take the time. I don’t think I can change so this week, I will spend time putting everything away so that I can start anew in an organized space. I made a bit of a dent tonight.

Here are the yellow orange 3 x 3s:

And look at what I have accomplished so far this year.

I have to figure out what to do with all of these, now.

I got some important errands done. Anita, the magazine is on its way to you in Florida. Sue Arnold, a felted nativity is on the way to you.

We have a square boxwood wreath on our front door. Mr C  lined the house with Christmas lights. We might go get a tree if we have a day without pouring rain.

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A Day Off

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

Wow, the holiday season has hit us with a bang. We have been on the go all week-end — two concerts and doing some holiday decor prep.

I got the organ piece to a point where I could photograph it. I told the committee that it was not completed – I still have some quilting to do. I couldn’t get to sleep on Friday, fretting over the hot mess that I seem to have created. I had an idea that some quilting with silver thread would integrate the silver foil. I feel that it is working. I also realized that because this was not fused, it needed more quilting. I think it is better. At any rate, I am putting it aside for a bit because it was taking over my life. If I could start over, I would. I learned so much doing this.

Anyway, I took the day off. I got dressed for church and stayed in my dressy clothes all day because we had a Bach Christmas concert at Trinity and Wassail after party. It felt good to just take it easy. I went to the local mixed media store, Collage, to see if the Art Quilting Studio magazine was in. It was there. I wanted to toot my horn a bit, but they were really  busy so I just pointed out to the young clerk that I had two articles. She seemed less that interested. Oh, well.

I need to clean up my studio again. My sister says I am always cleaning it up. Yes, this is true  because I create in a mess! I need to put the yellow orange fabrics away and pull out the yellow greens. I am having an Oregon SDA meeting here next week-end and I know the studio will need to be ready for visitors. I also have to start on the 12 X 20 for the sweet theme. I know what I am doing and have it all planned in my head. So that is on my agenda for the week.

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