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Had an okay walk. Moss still hates his halti and Katherine still travels at the speed of a two-almost-three-year-old, so we must have looked a fair sight. One woman walking a normal border collie on one leash and a whirling, leaping, psycho-collie on the other with a child in tow who insisted on jumping everywhere, [...]

You know you’re in a dismal mood when you start quoting that Carpenters song.
I have no really good reason to feel rotten, other than just simple overwhelmation. If it’s not a word, it should be. Also, the weather sucks and that always seems to play havock with my moods. Not to mention that I’m low [...]

Lately, while I’ve been getting ready for the workshops, things have been falling through the cracks around here. Yesterday morning I got up, had my coffee and determined that there actually were no cracks left into which things might fall. Since plugged philosophical cracks don’t tend to cut home heating costs but do tend to [...]

Saturday’s fabric painting was, as far as I can tell, an unqualified success. The follow-up to this was Sunday’s Quilted Landscape Design and Construction workshop. My chief aim in going into this workshop was to help people select an idea that they wanted to tackle, assist them in deisgning a plan as to how to [...]

Talent
Photos by VickyTH.
It went well. It went really well. Really, really well would not even be an exaggeration. The drive out was yucky, but shorter than I remember. Lavrock is at the top of the Salmonier Line and so virtually on the highway. It’s a nice spot, actually. Tucked away in the woods near a [...]

Where sunlight penetrates
Photos by VickyTH.
For the last two weeks I’ve been alternately working on a bunch of projects, the most significant, massive, organisationally challenging and lucrative of these being a weekend of workshops for a local quilt guild. I’ve organised notes, made up worksheets, made list after list after list of things to bring, bought [...]

Layers
Photos by VickyTH.
No matter what the focus of the foreground of life, the background continues to patter away. In fact, the background is often more interesting in a subtle way.
Lately I’ve been going out of my tree getting ready for the fabric painting and landscape quilting workshops this weekend. Not to mention writing up submissions [...]

For some time now, Stanley Goodspeed and I have had a strange working relationship. In case you’re not getting the reference, he’s one of two protagonists in the movie The Rock starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery. Cage plays Goodspeed and Connery plays John Mason, a British secret agent incarcerated without trial by the FBI [...]

Need More Thread
Photos by VickyTH.
Back in an earlier post, I went into some detail about what I was working on and what was to be done. A brief update:
Workshop Planning:

structures and writeups done
need to order supplies, round up old election signs (for painting boards)
solicit bottles from The Body Shop (for paints)
start putting [...]