Enjoying my day "off"?
May. 25th, 2010 07:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
voxwomanNow I take Tuesday's off, instead of having a 3-day weekend and taking Mondays off, so R can attend a BNI meeting at 7AM and I have the pleasure of rousting the kid from bed and getting her off to school. BNI is a business networking organization and we're hoping this chapter will boost R's business. We have been hurting from his lack of income these past many months.
Today is the catch up on chores (laundry, bills) that didn't get done over the weekend. I also have a meeting at the school this afternoon. Hopefully I can get some quilting done, too, as I"m in the middle of a quilt top that isn't quite working out the way I wanted it to. I'm going to finish it, but it may not end up on my bed, depending on how it looks. I may offer it for sale and make another one. I guess that's the problem between design on paper and how it looks in reality. I also need to change the background of that blog... it's too busy. Maybe I'll have time today.
I may also be in one of those phases where I am spreading myself too thin. There are a whole lot of things that Need To Be Done, most of which fall into the category of "grunt work".
1. Pack up the office and move bits of it upstairs
2. relocate the boxes of books from out of the garage
3. get basement disaster area reorganized
4. Get copyright legalities straightened out for publishing eBooks
5. Write up some quilt patterns and send to that woman in Illinois
6. Create thank you certificates for PTSO officers whose term ends in 3 weeks.
Item 5 is fallout from joining the QuilterBoard last friday. There are people there who are flipping over my designs (and also going nuts over my oven mitt pattern, probably because it's free). I think it's giving me a swelled head. I haven't had an ego boost like this in a really long time, and I probably need to be careful not to let it carry me away. I'm really a very tiny fish in the ocean of Quilting VIPs, and I don't think I'm doing anything earth-shattering - just playing with some traditional blocks in combinations that please me. I have little doubt that someone else has probably combined them before as well. Except from the comments I've been getting on that forum, it doesn't always seem so. So there's this woman in IL who has just lost her fabric store, and is home with 1000 bolts of fabric. I'm thinking "let's sell kits" and maybe that will be successful, maybe not. But worth a shot anyway. Now, to find the time to write the patterns up!
Today is the catch up on chores (laundry, bills) that didn't get done over the weekend. I also have a meeting at the school this afternoon. Hopefully I can get some quilting done, too, as I"m in the middle of a quilt top that isn't quite working out the way I wanted it to. I'm going to finish it, but it may not end up on my bed, depending on how it looks. I may offer it for sale and make another one. I guess that's the problem between design on paper and how it looks in reality. I also need to change the background of that blog... it's too busy. Maybe I'll have time today.
I may also be in one of those phases where I am spreading myself too thin. There are a whole lot of things that Need To Be Done, most of which fall into the category of "grunt work".
1. Pack up the office and move bits of it upstairs
2. relocate the boxes of books from out of the garage
3. get basement disaster area reorganized
4. Get copyright legalities straightened out for publishing eBooks
5. Write up some quilt patterns and send to that woman in Illinois
6. Create thank you certificates for PTSO officers whose term ends in 3 weeks.
Item 5 is fallout from joining the QuilterBoard last friday. There are people there who are flipping over my designs (and also going nuts over my oven mitt pattern, probably because it's free). I think it's giving me a swelled head. I haven't had an ego boost like this in a really long time, and I probably need to be careful not to let it carry me away. I'm really a very tiny fish in the ocean of Quilting VIPs, and I don't think I'm doing anything earth-shattering - just playing with some traditional blocks in combinations that please me. I have little doubt that someone else has probably combined them before as well. Except from the comments I've been getting on that forum, it doesn't always seem so. So there's this woman in IL who has just lost her fabric store, and is home with 1000 bolts of fabric. I'm thinking "let's sell kits" and maybe that will be successful, maybe not. But worth a shot anyway. Now, to find the time to write the patterns up!
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Date: 2010-05-25 02:13 pm (UTC)That said, the "spreading thin" makes some sense too, I'm sure...
But since you seem to be on such a creative high these weeks, it might somehow carry you through?
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Date: 2010-05-25 05:54 pm (UTC)In the meantime, I can see how to very easily make place mats or table runners with these same pieces (or the leftovers from the quilt blocks). Haven't figured out what to do for pillow shams (which is what I *want* to make to coordinate with the quilt).
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Date: 2010-05-25 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-25 05:52 pm (UTC)