Sorry that you haven't heard from me. Believe it or not, I have gone days without turning on my computer. I have worked the past 12 days, and I still have 6 days to go. That's the problem when only 2 people know how to do the job. I plan on taking a couple of weeks off in September to catch up with everything. I am itching to sew. I am usually dragging by the time I get home.
We went to see Leeanne Rimes at the county fair last Wednesday. Gosh that kid has a set of pipes! She is only the age of my oldest son, and it seems that she has been around forever. She is way too skinny. I thoroughly enjoyed the show. I do have some pictures on my camera, but I don't have the stamina to climb the stairs to get it.
I finally feel like I have turned the corner with the bronchitis. I still have a cough, but my voice is almost back to normal.
We have had a lot of rain here, but we have escaped the terrible flooding that devastated areas south of us. Fall is just around the corner, and I will be totally vindicated for all of the time I have spent knitting socks this summer.
Only six days and I will have several days off.. I will be back.. with pictures, I promise
Friday, August 24, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
NEED A PUSH
I am in such a rut. I haven't worked on anything in so long. Maybe I should never have picked up the knitting needles again.
I have nothing to enter in upcoming shows, probably not enough time left to bother. I think one of the reasons is my studio is such a total wreck I can't think. It's just that I have way too much stuff, and no where to put it. I have tossed a lot, I have some put aside to give away, I am finally clearing out the room next to my sewing room, and eventually I will expand.
It is getting so expensive to enter a show that I don't plan to do it again until my next piece is perfect, and has at least a chance of winning something. You may think that I want to win for the accolades.. I want to win something to make up the cost of entering!
I made my annual donation to IQA. And for once I am happy they turned me down. I take care of shipping my German friend Birgit's quilts for her to the U.S. shows because it is so expensive and a crap shoot to mail anything from Europe. (no tracking) Anyway, her miniature quilt was accepted in IQA. It cost me $7.05 to ship it via UPS to Houston. She has to pay $37.50 to have it shipped back to me. The whole thing in the box only weighed 0.75 pounds! And so many of these shows want to ship back via Fed Ex. I never know when the Fed Ex guy is going to show up.
CRANKY? You say? Why how did you guess? On top of the fact that I feel like crap, now I can't talk because I have laryngitis. I usually don't have a lot to say, so when I do say something, I would like it to be heard. Like for the times the hairy kid (Sam) runs for the nearest hole in the fence). Then, I'm still waiting for the HQSixteen that I bought in April to be put in a sit down table. I thought I would save money and get a better product getting my husband to build one for me. Here it is, 4 months later, all of my early (everything free) warranties have expired.. but it doesn't matter, because stupid me didn't take the paperwork out of the box, and everything had to be sent in within 30 days of purchase.
So I am going to really hope that nothing is wrong with the machine in case it EVER gets put into a table. I should have waited to buy it, and bought the table that came with it..
Other than all of this.. it's only in the 70's and on the downhill slide to cold weather again.. FINALLY.
Grouchily skulking away.....
I have nothing to enter in upcoming shows, probably not enough time left to bother. I think one of the reasons is my studio is such a total wreck I can't think. It's just that I have way too much stuff, and no where to put it. I have tossed a lot, I have some put aside to give away, I am finally clearing out the room next to my sewing room, and eventually I will expand.
It is getting so expensive to enter a show that I don't plan to do it again until my next piece is perfect, and has at least a chance of winning something. You may think that I want to win for the accolades.. I want to win something to make up the cost of entering!
I made my annual donation to IQA. And for once I am happy they turned me down. I take care of shipping my German friend Birgit's quilts for her to the U.S. shows because it is so expensive and a crap shoot to mail anything from Europe. (no tracking) Anyway, her miniature quilt was accepted in IQA. It cost me $7.05 to ship it via UPS to Houston. She has to pay $37.50 to have it shipped back to me. The whole thing in the box only weighed 0.75 pounds! And so many of these shows want to ship back via Fed Ex. I never know when the Fed Ex guy is going to show up.
CRANKY? You say? Why how did you guess? On top of the fact that I feel like crap, now I can't talk because I have laryngitis. I usually don't have a lot to say, so when I do say something, I would like it to be heard. Like for the times the hairy kid (Sam) runs for the nearest hole in the fence). Then, I'm still waiting for the HQSixteen that I bought in April to be put in a sit down table. I thought I would save money and get a better product getting my husband to build one for me. Here it is, 4 months later, all of my early (everything free) warranties have expired.. but it doesn't matter, because stupid me didn't take the paperwork out of the box, and everything had to be sent in within 30 days of purchase.
So I am going to really hope that nothing is wrong with the machine in case it EVER gets put into a table. I should have waited to buy it, and bought the table that came with it..
Other than all of this.. it's only in the 70's and on the downhill slide to cold weather again.. FINALLY.
Grouchily skulking away.....
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
I'M STILL HERE!!
Sorry it's been so long since I blogged. Last Thursday 4 of my friends and I went to Quilt National. We also picked up 2 other art quilt exhibits. One in Roscoe Village someplace in Ohio, and the other in Lancaster OH. The latter being an exhibit of antique and contempory quilts. I enjoyed that show very much. Quilt National was good this year. There were more quilts that were actually like quilts.. go figure. One plainly colored quilt had nice intricate quilting designs, which was a treat.
We got home Friday evening, and by Saturday morning I was sick as a dog. But I was committed to a local quilt show, and I also had to go to sell raffle tickets for my guild. On Sunday I joined two of my friends in hanging our guilds Challenge quilts in their library. They finished up for me so I could go with my husband and daughter to see The Simpson Movie. It was okay.. I could have waited until the DVD came out. By that time I was running a fever. I like to let this stuff hang for a few days to see if it would go away on it's own, but when I still had a fever over 100 today, and I have the next 17 days in a row to work, I finally gave in and went to the doctor. Like they say, it's now or never. I turned out to have bronchitis and a sinus infection. So I'm on one of those fancy new antibiotics that I only have to take once a day, and the best part, the doc gave me samples, so I didn't have to buy them!
I swear to you all I am committed to NOT being the one who dies at my desk.. so this Avelox had better kick in fast!!
I just wanted to check in and say Wassssuppp!!!!!
Later Gators!
We got home Friday evening, and by Saturday morning I was sick as a dog. But I was committed to a local quilt show, and I also had to go to sell raffle tickets for my guild. On Sunday I joined two of my friends in hanging our guilds Challenge quilts in their library. They finished up for me so I could go with my husband and daughter to see The Simpson Movie. It was okay.. I could have waited until the DVD came out. By that time I was running a fever. I like to let this stuff hang for a few days to see if it would go away on it's own, but when I still had a fever over 100 today, and I have the next 17 days in a row to work, I finally gave in and went to the doctor. Like they say, it's now or never. I turned out to have bronchitis and a sinus infection. So I'm on one of those fancy new antibiotics that I only have to take once a day, and the best part, the doc gave me samples, so I didn't have to buy them!
I swear to you all I am committed to NOT being the one who dies at my desk.. so this Avelox had better kick in fast!!
I just wanted to check in and say Wassssuppp!!!!!
Later Gators!
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