Archive for September, 2006

Oh Happy Day! Yesterday, my SIL, my daughter and I went out for a girls only dinner to my favorite Thai/Asian fusion restaurant in Denver, Thai Basil. On our way to the restaraunt, my eagle eyes spotted a sign that read “FREE FABRIC ?”. We didn’t stop immediately, but I asked my SIL and daughter if they minded if we checked it out on the way home.

All through dinner, I wondered what kind of treasures I would find. When we finally returned to the boxes of free fabric sitting outside of a children’s boutique, I felt like a secret agent marauding the stash under the cover of darkness, my get-a-way car sitting not 10 feet from where I stood. It was dark, so I didn’t know exactly what I would find, I felt my way around…chintzes, cotton prints, linen, velvet, vinyl, silk, organza, batting and fleece were just a few of the fabrics that I recognized by touch.

I didn’t take everything, but managed to stuff a plastic bag to over-flowing. I took a brief look through this afternoon and am very pleased with my loot! I have new fabric with which to experiment. Some cuts are fairly ample, some are simply scraps. But, make no mistake about it, I will create something with my bounty! Thank you to the store for recycling, I will do my best to see that the fabric doesn’t end up in the landfill! As the saying goes, one woman’s junk, is another’s treasure!

I took a couple of days break this past week from blogging and making art…though not the computer as I had originally intended. W.J. wrote that she has tried to take computer fasts in the past, though failed. I found it equally difficult to even limit my time online. Oh well, I need to stay connected and I get my news from the internet too. What would I do if I didn’t know what was going on in the world, let alone my neck of the woods?

I was on my way to pick my daughter up from school yesterday when I heard a snippet on the radio that schools were in lockdown. The station broke for commercial and I scanned the other stations for news with no luck. I picked my daughter up as scheduled, but later learned that a high school in Baily, CO just outside of Denver metro area had experienced a terrible hostage crisis. Turns out a deranged 54 year old man went into the school and took 6 girls hostage in a classroom, sexually molested them and then shot one of the 16 year old girls and then took his own life.

Later that evening I hugged my daughter just a little bit tighter. I can’t imagine the terrible agony the slain girl’s parents are experiencing right now. Why can’t our schools be safe havens for children??? I just don’t understand.

On another note, I have a number of designs sketched out for new work. This is the first of my new mini quilts. Although, after this post, it hardly seems appropriate to show you my new work. Life goes on though.

Click here to bid.

Arghhh, I couldn’t upload my photo from Blogger, so I tried blogging directly from my flickr account and that failed too, even after updating my settings etc. I finally grabbed my photo’s url and pasted it here.

But, now, I’ve wasted more time. I had originally written that I am going to impose a time limit on my computer activities, because despite my best intentions hours can pass and my to-do list doesn’t get any shorter. So here it is, a mini art quilt that I completed this morning.

I have so many things I want to do and not enough hours in the day. If only I didn’t need to sleep!

This is constructed from fabric, felt, embroidery floss, thread, fused applique and beads. Click here to bid.