It's sad when you go to Joann's Fabric, and after the clerk rings up your total, she makes the comment: "well, THIS is a small batch for you !"
well !!
I resemble that remark.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Vintage beads
I found this absolutely fabamundo site for vintage beads. Czechs, japanese, austrian...........oh god I want so many. And I can justify the cost. Well, almost I can. but then when I get them, I don't want to USE them. I want to KEEP them.
::: sigh :::
why can't I be rich?
::: sigh :::
why can't I be rich?
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Nipple Project
http://www.thenippleproject.com/
Here are the pictures from The Nipple Project.
Colleen's is the sequined Nip, mine is the beaded.
Colleen's is the sequined Nip, mine is the beaded.
Saturday
I caught the train in to Philly to work -- so far behind on MY work since I fired the man.
Colleen wanted to go so that she could "explore".
Nice ride in.
She went off to Trader Joe's and then to Barnes and Noble. I worked.
She came back -- with my Omega Trail Mix and her Pralined Pecans.
A trip by B & N brought my copy of "The Art of Bead Embroidery".
It isn't that I need the technique -- stitches. But I need the inspiration for placement -- of thinking FIRST instead of flinging things on.
Not that I do not love freeform (in fact, I am working on the BFAC project for next year - a freeform bracelet) .
But for embroidery there is a place for thinking things out first.
And the book is already inspiring me.
Home and we just hung out. Watched "Now Voyager" -- god ,that IS my movie.
After it was over, Colleen walked the dogs and went to bed.
I kept working on my bracelet and flipped it over to "Hello Dolly".
Not sure why I torture myself with that movie.
Brings back way too many unpleasant memories of the summer/fall of 1971 and then into 1972. Watching that movie is like picking a scab open and probing until it bleeds.
I bled tonight.
Next time maybe I can walk away from it.
Stopped, came and washed the dishes, threw a load of His stuff in the washer.
Now I will putz around a bit.
Still have to make the bed. Ahhh, there is NOTHING like fresh clean sheets.
And I'll spray my Eucalypus spray on the bed before I sink in.
Colleen wanted to go so that she could "explore".
Nice ride in.
She went off to Trader Joe's and then to Barnes and Noble. I worked.
She came back -- with my Omega Trail Mix and her Pralined Pecans.
A trip by B & N brought my copy of "The Art of Bead Embroidery".
It isn't that I need the technique -- stitches. But I need the inspiration for placement -- of thinking FIRST instead of flinging things on.
Not that I do not love freeform (in fact, I am working on the BFAC project for next year - a freeform bracelet) .
But for embroidery there is a place for thinking things out first.
And the book is already inspiring me.
Home and we just hung out. Watched "Now Voyager" -- god ,that IS my movie.
After it was over, Colleen walked the dogs and went to bed.
I kept working on my bracelet and flipped it over to "Hello Dolly".
Not sure why I torture myself with that movie.
Brings back way too many unpleasant memories of the summer/fall of 1971 and then into 1972. Watching that movie is like picking a scab open and probing until it bleeds.
I bled tonight.
Next time maybe I can walk away from it.
Stopped, came and washed the dishes, threw a load of His stuff in the washer.
Now I will putz around a bit.
Still have to make the bed. Ahhh, there is NOTHING like fresh clean sheets.
And I'll spray my Eucalypus spray on the bed before I sink in.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Nipple Project
Colleen and I both completed out Nipple projects.
They go out priority mail tomorrow.
I've got pictures -- somehow will get them up here.
They go out priority mail tomorrow.
I've got pictures -- somehow will get them up here.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Keep on plugging away
Sheesh, seems like I will never be completed.
My BJP didn't come out exactly as it should.
Nor as it was to be planned.
But I have continued to work on "it" the entire time.
I only get a bit of time each day.
But a stitch here and a stitch there.. adds up.
Now that the weather is breaking a bit, I'll be working on some photo's to add.
And because I am much more organized for next year, I'm already working my head around the next year's journal -- and fitting in to the group's plan.
My BJP didn't come out exactly as it should.
Nor as it was to be planned.
But I have continued to work on "it" the entire time.
I only get a bit of time each day.
But a stitch here and a stitch there.. adds up.
Now that the weather is breaking a bit, I'll be working on some photo's to add.
And because I am much more organized for next year, I'm already working my head around the next year's journal -- and fitting in to the group's plan.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
New Car
I jumped into the fray -- and bought a new car.
My Honda was 6 years old and had about 95,000 miles on it.
Still ran good but was beginning to make a NotSoNice noise......... one of those OMG so expensive noises.
And I wasn't ready to shell out a couple of grand if I had to.
We did a bit of shopping -- and I got a 2008 Toyota Rav4.
The only downside is the 1 disc CD -- as opposed to the 6 disc changer it was supposed to have -- the dealership got amnesia and I just wasn't in the mood to argue.
Since I have no other major bills, with the exception of the mortgage, I thought 'why not?'
Might as well do my best to pump up the economy !
My Honda was 6 years old and had about 95,000 miles on it.
Still ran good but was beginning to make a NotSoNice noise......... one of those OMG so expensive noises.
And I wasn't ready to shell out a couple of grand if I had to.
We did a bit of shopping -- and I got a 2008 Toyota Rav4.
The only downside is the 1 disc CD -- as opposed to the 6 disc changer it was supposed to have -- the dealership got amnesia and I just wasn't in the mood to argue.
Since I have no other major bills, with the exception of the mortgage, I thought 'why not?'
Might as well do my best to pump up the economy !
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