Throwback Thursday – Week 6
Throwback Thursday this week takes us back to the Fourth of July in 2011. I’d been doing Superior Threads‘ Superior University and had a nice pile of Glitter threads to play with so . . .
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 5
I broke with convention for this week’s journal quilt of June 23 – 29, 2011, and made a much bigger, wall-hanging sized quilt. I made the quilt the week of my birthday and wanted to have 36 candles around the border, but didn’t want to have to piece tiny, tiny …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 4
This journal quilt was absolutely one of my favorites. I made it during the week of June 16, 2011, inspired by the bounty of summer. We get a weekly delivery of organic, local fruits and vegetables from Berkshire Organics and it’s always a treat to open the box to see …
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Mindless projects
In addition to having trouble getting started on a Monday morning, one of the other things that I know about myself from my work in Corporate America was that I could rarely expect two highly productive days in a row. I’d have one day when I was just cruising through …
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Getting Going
Monday mornings are not my most productive time. When I am working in Corporate America, I don’t really care about that. People rarely schedule meetings first thing on a Monday so I can usually ease into the week by reading through my email and planning my to do list. Now …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilts Week 3
For Throwback Thursday this week, we’re going back to the third week of my journal quilting project, June 9 – 15, 2011. This particular journal quilt is one that I could easily have made this week in 2015. In 2011, My DH and I visited our favorite tea shop, Harney …
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Throwback Thursday – Journal Quilt Week 2
Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday. This week, we look back to the second week of my journal quilting project in early June 2011. Though one of the things that happened during the week was “post vacation laundry,” I instead focused on the heat wave that week with the …
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Throwback Thursday
There’s this thing on Facebook where you post an old picture for what is called “Throwback Thursday.” I don’t really think anyone needs to see old pictures of me, but I am adopting the idea to recreate some old posts from my previous blog. When my life got too far …
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No Foolin’
It’s Spring Cleaning time in my studio! (I wish that I could say that the same is true of the rest of my house, but c’est la vie!) So, for the month of April, everything and I do mean EVERYTHING in my Etsy shop is 50% off. I’m clearing things …
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Artist Strength Training
In addition to giving myself a fresh start with my web presence, I am also trying to breathe new life into my quilting and make it a higher priority. I recently heard about an online course offered by Jane Dunnewold called “Artist Strength Training” and am in Week 3 of …
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