Productive day in the studio, but not much creativity to it! I'm sorting the kids artwork - about once a year I put up a new picture in their room that's a montage of the art work they did the year before...ahem...it's been 2 years! So, time to update! Meanwhile I'm sorting and organizing. Geez, how did we get to have such creative kids! ;-)
Then I've been hemming those pants! Yep! done! Hooray! and Matey Moo has 8 new pairs of pants that don't bunch around his ankles. I'm sewing a button on the last pair now - whew! I'm also darning a pair of socks....using a darner (I think that's what it's called)! It's my grandmother's and frankly I'm usually used to throwing out socks with holes, but this pair cost quite a bit and Rex loves them!
With the sock on - pull it tight and stitch and you're done. Not sure what stitch you're supposed to use, but they look better to me! we'll see, when he tries them on!
At last...I can see the bottom of my table - I found my needlebook (which has been missing for 3 weeks) and my projects that I'd like to work on.
I think I'm taking a brazillian embroidery project with me to Vail...not because of desire, but because it's so gosh darn portable. Be nice to get some more stuff done! But I think a clean table is a start.

Labels: embroidery, motherhood, sewing

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Well, I'm sure you all have noticed my heavy redesign? Thoughts? Concerns? I kind of like it..clean, yet obnoxious! :-) (sort of like me!).

Anyway, things perk along here. We've billed all of our customers, gotten the entire system into quickbooks and business is perking along. Tomorrow, I stitch! Hooray....you might say, but I still have pants to hem, two pillows to cover and a bedspread to make. Sigh.

On Sunday however, I'm headed to VAIL! Hooray! Sort of business, sort of pleasure. My friend is a Business Teacher at a High School in Vail and she has invited me to be a DECA judge! I think it's going to be a blast. Sunday we get to relax, so I'm taking stitching.

Anyway, more tomorrow....I hope to make some HUGE progress in my studio!

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So, I had my Crazy Quilting group meeting today. Here's the round robin I finished to swap (I was supposed to be two...behind!):

It was actually a HUGE issue because the wheelbarrow was there as well as the sequin butterflies and pearls. The colors on the block are on odd arrangement, so I added the feather stitch, the BIG butterfly and the red and purple roses...all in an attempt to unify the block.
I find block swaps to be an interesting way to look at other techniques and to try to unify mine with their ideas. Sometimes this is really really challenging.
I also bought some thermalam (sp?) to put on the back of the "real" project I've been wanting to start for a while.
If my "hemming of pants" (BLECK!) goes well tomorrow, I'll get to it and start it! Can't wait!
Anyway, I'm here. With starting our new business and moving my "other blog" to Wordpress, I've been kind of out of the loop! :-) More next week I promise!

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Soul searching is a funny thing...amazing how your life changes and turns in ways you have no idea. For example, having my husband working with me on my business at home is turning out to be the most wonderful thing that could happen to our family. He's totally connected to the kids, he and I relate on a much higher level (we don't just pass each other and say "Hi' once a day!) and things are going well. Very well! We've hired a bookeeper - actually a good friend who wanted to get started in her own business doing books and we're "taxing" (I couldn't resist) her knowledge. When she gets her website up, I'll be sure to give her a plug!

However, much much more is going on in our crazy household...most completely unrelated to crafting or otherwise. You'll remember my post a while ago about the Denver Post board/blog and I have dropped my participation in that - but if you're a Mom in Denver pop over and say Hi!

It was just too much! One thing too many! And frankly, after thinking about it, I'm not a mommy blogger, I'm a "me" blogger. I love my kids, and adore writing about them (by the way grandparents, school pictures are out and they're adorable!) but they aren't everything in my world. I'm having a blast with our new business, I'm still really enjoying the crazy quilting group and if I can get through the mending in my studio.....I have some art I want to work on! Whew!

I'm also really enjoying my "other blog" - and hope to post today with a follow up on the Trading Spaces that aired last night! It was totally fun/weird to have such good friends featured on TV, but it was a great episode. More about that later I'm sure.

In the spirit of "cleaning up". I found a few links I never passed along:

Quilts, Hawaiian quilts, Hawaiian quilting, Quilting lessons, quilting classes - I have an amazing admiration of these quilts. Maybe at some point I'll do one or use the technique somehow. I just think they are stunning tho and the site provides a lot of info and eye candy!

Sewing Buttons and Craft Buttons - this one is almost totally for my Mother in Law who I took to Denver Fabric and she really fell in love with the button section. Well, if others of you have a hard time finding buttons, they're online! :-) Woo hoo!

Florilegium Antiques and Needleart - This is Rhonda's recommendation (shes one of the talented Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters)....fabulous ribbons, wonderful eye candy, but HOW do you order? (I shouldn't say that, but it was a bit frustrating!). I think the store looks amazing tho...if you're in Kansas City go find them! Maybe it would be easier to just send you my money to go shopping there! (ha ha!)

Labels: Crazy quilt, motherhood, quilting

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