I finally decided where to send my money. I sold a bracelet at the beginning of the week and it geed me up to make a decision. It was beginning to niggle me. I know my money doesn’t make that much of a difference, but, I was beginning to feel bad about all the people […]
Month: November 2012
Don’t forget to warm your cockles …
I know you’ve been worried about the progression of the quilt, so here’s an update. I take these photographs after each session because sometimes it’s clearer to see what needs to be changed by looking at them. I find this is the same for painting also. Sometimes when a portrait, for instance, is off, and, […]
This is not a quilt blog.
Promise. It’s a, I don’t really know why, but, I want to do it anyway, blog. So. Sometimes it’s about quilt making. Sometimes it’s about jewelry making. And, sometimes, but not often, it’s about writing. Right now I wish it were about photography. Why is Mickey so small! O.K. that’s marginally better. Don’t ask me […]
Modigliani, James Bond, and, giant apes.
Modigliani is one of my favourite artists. I have quite a lot of favourite artists, but, his work gets me every time. I have a huge poster of one of his paintings in my quilt room, and, now this is my phone wallpaper. Makes me want to use my phone all of the time. Do […]
Kids + Cars = Anxiety x Infinity and Beyond to the power of – everything.
Enough said. – B’s car is now written off. She’s O.K. However, I’m now researching particle reorganization as I’m sure beaming her up would be a better way to get her to work. Unless she gets reassembled the wrong way around, of course, which would be somewhat unfortunate. But, it happens. […]
Shake it off already.
I’ve got 563 books to read and I’m stuck on the, House of Sand and Fog. Every time I pick it up I enjoy it, but, I just don’t think to pick it up. I want to know what happens to the people – although the girl’s a bit annoying if you ask me. I […]
The cat and the quilt.
The beginning of the middle. I’m still a bit worried that it will be dull but there’s a long way to go yet. Of course Wally is here. Keeping an eye on things. He takes no prisoners. –
Yesterday
I bought a cup. Really I wanted a mug, but, as I’m a fussy tea drinker, I wasn’t too sure about them. Now, coffee … I wouldn’t have a problem with. For me, good, strong, coffee, is best drunk from a good, strong (read think edged) mug. Tea needs a different rim thickness. A refined […]
Next up.
Cut out all of the pieces for the four corners, just so you don’t have to freak out later when you discover you’ve run out of a particular fabric and the store hasn’t got any more and you spend fruitless hours on-line looking for someone, somewhere, who can help you, all the while knowing that […]
Out with the old and in with the new.
It turns out, if you have to drop your mac, make sure it doesn’t fall on its hinge else it severs your wi fi connection, or, on its front left hand side as, apparently, that’s where the hard drive is. I know this because B spilled a whole can of coke on her one last […]
We are experiencing technical difficulties
Please do not adjust your screen as I’m on it. Actually I’m on my I pad as my laptop finally, and, rather abruptly I might add, decided to shun its old friend, the Internet. Poof, not a how’s your father, not nuffin’ (sorry, a little bit of the Essex girl coming out there. That’s what […]
Getting there
I think. This is a little more traditional that I was thinking. Sometimes I really just want to make things out of the box, but, I don’t know. What do you think K? – I’ll be back …. –
Every so often
I get the quilting bug. Hence the trip to the quilt festival at the weekend. I finished N’s quilt quite a long time ago now, but, because of the jewelry making, painting, etc., I’ve not felt as though I’ve had enough time for quilt making for some time. But it’s always there, in the back of […]
Yesterday
I went to the Houston Quilt Festival. It’s held at the George R Brown Convention Center which must be one of the biggest buildings I’ve been in here in Houston. By the end of it my legs felt as though they were going to drop off, and, we didn’t even see all of it. Here […]
My brain
is worn out and itchy. Here’s its (my brains) work station before I started on the afternoons work of creating the next best children’s novel. Hahaha, in my dreams. But, it’s nanowrimo time, and, every year I say I’m going to do it, and, every year I chicken out at some point or another. Not this […]