June10
I tried to bond with my sewing machine this week. I was unsuccessful. I picked out a beautiful pattern, with a suggestion of chiffon for the fabric. OY, chiffon needs to be renamed – SHITFON would be better… because you say SH** a lot when it slinks as you cut and things don’t line up. Well… the blouse was looking ok, not great, on the maniquine (photo coming soon), but on ME, ha! One sleeve is higher than the other, and the neck didn’t sit right. At least the fabric was on clearance and the pattern on sale. I’ll try it again with different fabric, but not anytime soon.
April8
Finally, I’m getting around to loading up pictures – the purse and wallet are made from a 100% silk skirt found at goodwill (yay Goodwill 99 cent days!) – the material was too gorgeous to pass up.
April8
Following the class with Heather, she suggested making 40 ROUND beads with different dot patterns. Day 1, 5 beads:
And I also made a button – nothing fancy, just trying to figure it all out:
March6
After a couple of weeks between jobs, a couple of purses and several beads have made an appearance in the studio (pics coming soon). One bag and matching wallet will be part of the Woman’s Club Basket Auction on March 18th.
Jim said that for a woman who rarely carries a purse, I sure have enough of them… I mentioned that for a woman who rarely wears jewelry, I have a lot of beads!
January7
It’s all about perspective…
You could have woken up to find out school decided to start at 10am instead of 8:20 or even 10:20. Wonder why they would pick an odd time, or for that matter, what time the kids are REALLY supposed to be at school. But then those musings quickly fade as you hear your older child start crying in the bathroom and walk in to discover that
YOU NEED TO CLEAN THE WHOLE BATHROOM 
Because none of the food from the previous day was digested.
I’d gladly take the 20 inches of snow. Of course, those stranded in the airports (Chicago cancelled all flights as well) would probably take cleaning my bathroom…
(first published Feb 2008, photo courtesy Tracy Kempkes)
April29
First Published on DivineCaroline, April 2008
Nebraska: Why I Live Here
Twenty years ago, had someone told me I’d be living in Nebraska, I’d have said, “Where’s Nebraska?” Think about it—when’s the last time you saw a Nebraska license plate on a car in a movie? I don’t know either.
But love makes us do strange things, and I moved to Nebraska with the hopes of staying near the one I loved. I stayed in Nebraska because it feels right. The air is clean; grass, flowers, and trees line the roads more than garbage, signage, and commercial buildings. Rush hour means driving forty-five instead of sixty on the freeway, and taking an alternative route will usually lead to learning about history. Read the rest of this entry »
February28
According to Psychology Today,
“Rumination is a style of thinking in which, like a hamster in a cage, you run in tight circles on a treadmill in your brain. It means obsessing about problems, about a loss, about any kind of a setback or ambiguity without moving past thought into the realm of action.”
Oddly, the dictionary definition is nowhere near as negative. Which leads me to my thoughts on psychology and the damage it has done on our most precious resource—life itself. Read the rest of this entry »
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