tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73988063664910484082024-03-06T14:03:06.611-06:00CabinQuilterDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-22431505717442653272020-03-11T13:04:00.001-05:002020-03-11T13:04:55.284-05:00Two for Two at the TriCounty Quilt Guild Show!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I've pulled back a bit on the quilting for customers thing last year with all the hubbub surrounding the sale of the retreat and log cabin, and moving to Georgetown/Austin, I found some time to work in a couple of customers' entries into the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tri-County-Quilt-Guild-313027952198179/" target="_blank">TriCounty Quilt Guild's</a> biannual show in Cypress, TX. (Thank you to these ladies for being so patient with me while I got my new studio in order enough to start working on their quilts!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although I didn't make it to the show personally, I did find out that the two quilts I quilted both won first place in their categories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nancy Y. pieced this gorgeous log cabin quilt - I think the logs were 1/2" finished. I was still in Tomball when I saw her working on them at <a href="https://www.quilterscrossingtx.com/" target="_blank">Quilters Crossing Quilt Shop</a> one Friday night/Free Sew, and fell in lust with them. Tried to take a couple of them off her hands, but she wasn't havin' it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aside from Nancy's exquisite piecing, was her <i>very</i> innovative binding technique, which I'm sure is what put her quilt over the top, judging-wise. She pieced it in the same size as the logs, alternating light/dark strips, and lined them up with the edge blocks, so it looks like the block is part of the binding. Unbelievable workmanship!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theda F's quilt was the other quilt that won a blue ribbon. Very different from Nancy's! Wild color combinations and stunning fabrics - it's a very happy, exuberant quilt. And such a joy to see every morning when I walked into my studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And d'ya know what the best part of quilting for customers is? I'll tell you: when they say, "Do whatever you want!" So I do...and they love it - and we win ribbons! Can't wait to add these two to my collection! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These past few years have made me take a left turn in my life, and it seems I'm heading in a new direction. So many endings - the loss of my husband of 40 years, the sale of my retreat business, adult children moving away, the sale of my log cabin in the woods of Tomball, Texas...so much to process. But now I'm looking forward to new beginnings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bought a beautiful house of Texas limestone in Georgetown, just north of Austin. Still in Texas, cuz you'd have to blast me out of here! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went from living in a log cabin on 8.5 acres, down a dirt road in the woods (for the last 33 years):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...to a one story limestone ranch. Pro: It's on an acre of thickly tree'd land. Con: In a neighborhood. With neighbors. And people. And cars. And lawnmowers. And people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The house is on a wedge-shaped acre that's shaped like the Flatiron Building in NYC. The front of the house faces the top point of the triangle, which means the left side and the right side of the house are on two streets, and the front isn't on <i>any</i> street! It also means I don't have any side-neighbors, which is a consolation for having to live in an actual neighborhood. Don't know if I'm going to get used to this or not, and I'm leaving my options open. We'll see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OAN: I took my business name, CabinQuilter, from having my studio in my former log cabin. Now that I'm in a limestone house, it doesn't seem to fit. Maybe <b>StonedQuilter</b>...I <i>am</i> in Austin, after all. And that alone is culture shock. Aside from all the man-buns and stoners, there's more <i>dogs</i> here than kids! Go to any restaurant and you'll see more hippies with their dog-babies, than parents with their children.</span><br />
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So, I’m putting the retreat up for sale - as a retreat business. It will <i>not</i> be closing, and</div>
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of quilters, scrapbookers, beaders, needleworkers, church groups, and so many more. I’ve made some tremendous friends through the retreat and will miss seeing you all on a regular basis. I do, however, reserve the right to come crash your group when I'm in town, so, be</div>
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-55662694352634070542018-01-01T00:00:00.000-06:002018-01-01T00:00:39.317-06:00January 2018<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been exactly two years since I last had a new post, and a lot has happened in my life. If you </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">recall from my previous posts, I had to shut everything down to care for my gravely ill husband. Five months after my last post (January 2016), Andy passed away, leaving me and our five kids and six grandchildren heartbroken and devastated. I feel like I've been "lost" for all this time, and I'm still struggling to figure out who I am without him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy truly was/is the love of my life - I couldn't have asked for a more loving, funny, caring, man to walk with me through life. We met in 1973, when I was 21 and he was 29. We started here, in Carmel, California</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I know some of you won't want to read this...but I'm still not ready to commit to the monthly desktop calendars. Yet. I'm sorry. So much change, so many demands on me and my time, responsibilities, and a need for simplification and prioritizing, leaves me trying to come to terms with the difference between 'needs' and 'wants.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">My first priority has to be me - and figuring out who I am as mother, grandmother, quilter, musician, retreat owner... is at the top of my 'need' list. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of the retreat. Last May, on the first anniversary, I sold my house, and closed the Cabin Too to retreaters, and moved back into it. You know how people say, "Don't make any big changes during that first year?" Well, don't schedule anything important on that first anniversary. I speak from experience. The movers, my kids, my son-in-law, the neighbors, and the dogs, were treated to a noisy, embarrassing meltdown in my front yard. Don't do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I also bought a new hoodie, for no particular reason other than it was cute and colorful. I <i>might</i> give it to Gillian for Christmas. No photo, in case she stops by my blog...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh! One more thing before I go. I ran down to the retreat a little while ago to see what one of my favorite groups was up to. Some artsy quilt stuff, some charity zippered bags, a jelly roll race, some actual quilting, the cutest panel ever... and when I walked into the living room I saw this: Father Christmas doing heaven knows what with <i>Santa's</i> <i>Helper! </i>She's apparently one of the quieter members of the Out of Bounds quilters, and didn't look too thrilled to have him checking out her ensemble. See, Shirley - I'm taking good care of Father Christmas! </span><br />
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The other day, after I gave myself my <a href="http://cabinquilter.blogspot.com/2015/09/nailed-it.html" target="_blank"><b>Kaffe-esque Jamicure</b></a> - not to be confused with <b><i>Kafkaesque</i></b>, as in: "pertaining to the literary work of Franz Kafka, i.e. marked by a senseless, disorienting, and menacing-like quality" which would be more like this:</div>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-54682168147399709612015-09-27T21:26:00.002-05:002015-09-27T23:14:56.516-05:00Nailed It!I found myself with a few extra minutes today, so I gave myself a new Jamicure. You know - the vinyl nail wraps by <a href="https://nutmeg.jamberry.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jamberry!</b></a><br />
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I hardly get to sew (much less quilt) anymore, so I thought I'd use my latest "quilty" Jams for my latest Kaffe-icure!</div>
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But first...this is why I don't just use polish. I am so not coordinated enough to not get it everywhere. No matter how careful I am, or how much time I take, I still end up looking like a 4 year old did it. And that's just embarrassing. Actually, I think a 4 year old could have done a better job.</div>
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I've never been a manicure-type girl. As a matter of fact, I've had two manicures in my entire life: when Megan got married, and once, when I was on a retreat at the Compass Center. I've always had super short nails, cuz I work hard, play hard (ok, on the piano), and I...I... well, I was going to say clean hard, but that'd be a lie. But I supervise! </div>
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Since I don't have a lot of time to play the piano anymore, I've been attempting to let me nails grow... hahaha - typo - I sound Irish! I mean MY nails grow! Just so I could have some fun with wraps. They last much longer than polish ever did, and they actually keep my nails from chipping and splitting.</div>
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Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. Right on top of my hideously messy polish, I applied my new jams: Happy-Go-Lucky and Nepal Relief. Together, they look like they're straight out of a Kaffe Fassett quilt - and I love them! Here they are with a backdrop of Kaffes. I know, right?? (And Spoelker - I know you're jealous!)</div>
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And see the ones right above my hand? Those are the ones my daughter Megan had made from my <a href="http://cabinquilter.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-desktop-calendar.html" target="_blank"><b>May Desktop Calendar</b></a> </div>
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I designed it in EQ7 and when she saw it, she asked if she could use it for an exclusive Nail Art Studio design for <a href="https://nutmeg.jamberry.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jamberry</b></a>. They came out great! If you'd like your own set, they're only available through Megan - and tell her I sent you!</div>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-3424706180058174532015-09-01T00:00:00.000-05:002015-09-01T00:00:01.662-05:00September Desktop CalendarIt's September and after the long, hot, Texas summer, I'm <i>so</i> ready for fall! Who am I kidding? I <i>know</i> the cooler weather won't be coming for another 6 weeks or so. But until then, I can finally cool off the way I've wanted to all summer:<br />
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In between bites I've been working on the calendar for September. These one-patches are not easy - mainly cuz I'm running out of ideas on how to color them!<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-27064482507959634482015-08-01T00:29:00.000-05:002016-03-06T22:30:31.303-06:00August Desktop CalendarWell, I almost didn't make it. Again.<br />
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We brought Andy home from rehab today with hospice, so it's been kind of hectic and a little bit overwhelming. He wasn't making any progress after 3 weeks and they felt it was just making him anxious, so we decided it would be best for him to come home. Next week we'll start having twice weekly visits from the nurse and thrice weekly visits from an aide. That's the one I'm looking forward to seeing. Often.<br />
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Then, to slap a little icing on that cake, we discovered there are squirrels in the attic at the cabin! Apparently, they'd made themselves a nice little home up there. After MJ thought he'd gotten them out and sealed up the hole in the eaves, it turns out he sealed one or two in. Ask any A/C repairman what it's like to work in an attic in the Texas summer, and you'll figure out that the little varmints won't last long in that heat. And they didn't. They started to cook. Ugh. Sent the boy back into the attic this evening to search and destroy. Which he did. So. We're done with that. I hope.<br />
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-8465864822169226532015-07-01T00:25:00.000-05:002016-03-06T22:31:35.994-06:00July Desktop CalendarHave you ever started out to do one thing, then got distracted and done another? And another? And then wondered what the heck you were <i>supposed</i> to be doing?<br />
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Liar!! If you're over the age of 40, you <i>know</i> that's the truth!<br />
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So tonight I started to work on the calendar at 7:40pm Central Time. By that, I mean I opened up my Mac and clicked on Parallels (the Windows emulator software I use to access my Electric Quilt 7 program where I design the quilts for my calendar). While I was waiting for it to load (which takes for-flippin-<i>ever</i>), I went to check my emails.<br />
Got one from my sister. Talking about where we grew up in Park Ridge, IL (along with Hillary, apparently. I don't want to talk about that.)<br />
Anyway. Then I got to thinking about all the places we used to walk to from my Gramma's house. Like to the Pickwick Theatre in downtown Park Ridge. A quick search on Google Maps told me it was 1.9 miles. And then, by clicking on Street View, I was able to actually trace the route we used to walk.<br />
Here's my Gramma's house, a cropped screen grab from the Google Street View. Our bedroom (we shared a double bed till I was about 8 or so) is the second floor left window.<br />
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And here's the <a href="http://www.pickwicktheatre.com/" target="_blank">Pickwick Theatre</a>, in all its art-deco glory. Beautiful architecture inside with lots of tile and ornamental wood. And as I recall, it was only 50 cents a ticket.<br />
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Then I decided to walk the same route I took in high school to get from our duplex in Arlington Heights to my piano teacher's studio downtown, about 1.9 miles away. (Again, Google? Was <i>everything</i> 1.9 miles away from me??) We lived in the right half of the duplex, and I remember sketching that tree for one of the weekly art assignments as a sophomore in Miss Akers' class. She gave us one (1) piece of oatmeal drawing paper on Monday, and we had to come back with a finished pencil drawing of whatever she assigned, on Friday. I usually waited till Thursday night to do it. Go figure.<br />
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Here's Mr. Matteoni's old studio - a 2nd floor walk-up in that brick building. When he was dying of brain cancer (in '96, I think), he turned over his studio to a former student, who still runs it. Mr. Matteoni was the closest thing I ever had to a father, and I loved him for teaching me and encouraging me to major in music at DePaul. We kept in touch for all those years. And he'd call me every year at Christmas just to talk. I've even saved his letters. He was such a sweet man. Every so often I still cry over him. Wow. That got mushy real fast!<br />
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Holy mackerel! I've wasted 90 minutes already. Damn that Google maps thing!<br />
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I just remembered tonight's the night Venus and Jupiter are supposed to be so close together they'll seem to be one big star - as big as the moon. Have to go look. Wait right here!<br />
...<i>time slowly passes</i>...<br />
Well crap. Drove about a mile down the road (not 1.9 miles LOL), to the clearing in the big pasture.<br />
Nada. Too cloudy. But here's a picture of the moon through the trees at my house. Just pretend it looks like the Star of Bethlehem.<br />
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So where was I...oh yeah. I still have an hour and 15 minutes, so I'm good. Hey! Did you see 5 year old Heavenly Joy on America's Got Talent tonight? Shirley Temple reincarnated. What a cutie-pie!<br />
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11:02. Need to get a move on. BRB.<br />
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How about another one-patch with Kaffe fabric? I like that.<br />
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Hang on. It's 11:23pm and my son-in-law in South Carolina is calling. Emergency?<br />
No. Job/career issues. Good. That I can deal with. Still working on quilt while we talk.<br />
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Midnight. Still on phone, but I've finished the calendar. And it's only 22 minutes late. Have at it, folks!<br />
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Some days he's on an airplane, some days he swears that Donald, a childhood friend, is living with us...I never know where I'm going to find him or who he's been talking to. It's very strange, very sad, and very labor intensive. Sometimes it's funny and I can't help but laugh and just go with it. A couple of weeks ago, I walked into the bedroom after he'd been in bed for about an hour, and I kicked him right in the head. (That probably doesn't help his condition any, but at least I wasn't wearing my orthopedic nun's shoes!) He was on the floor, with no recollection of how he'd gotten there. Got him back into bed, left the room shaking my head and made a quick gin & tonic nightcap. Fifteen minutes later I went in to get ready for bed and he was kneeling by the bed with his arm and head wedged firmly between the mattress and the little guardrail on the side of the bed.<br />
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"What are you doing down there??"<br />
"I'm stuck."<br />
"I can <i>see</i> that - what are you trying to do?"<br />
"The captain said for everyone to get out on the right side of the plane, and I got stuck."<br />
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Hmmm...wonder what <i>that's</i> about. Got him up on the side of the bed and turned on the lights.<br />
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"Do you know where you are?"<br />
"Tomball!"<br />
So far, so good...<br />
"<i>Where</i> in Tomball?"<br />
"On the <i>PLANE</i>!"<br />
There was no convincing him that he wasn't on a plane, so, as I tucked him back into bed, I said, "Well, the captain said to stay in your seat until the plane lands in the morning."<br />
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And he did.<br />
The next morning, he remembered the incident but couldn't figure out how the plane landed in the bedroom. It's big, but not <i>that</i> big!<br />
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Anyway - Andy's health has been on the decline for the past 5 years, and has gotten steadily and more rapidly worse, this past year. No matter my intentions, I only finished one (1) customer quilt in all of 2014, and halfway through 2015, it doesn't look like I'm going to beat that record. That's also the reason the blog has deteriorated into a once a month 'calendar' post - and that's it. I can barely force myself into that little bit. No time, no energy, no desire. My days are consumed with taking care of my husband and trying to manage the million-and-one things that have to be done.<br />
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All that, to say this: If I miss a calendar in the upcoming months, you'll know I just couldn't squeeze one more thing into my day. I'm still here - I'm just keeping my head down trying to make it through the day.<br />
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Now that the rains in Texas have slowed down a little bit, I've been watching the Virginia Creeper vine outside my bathroom window grow by <i>inches</i> every day. It's like 1962's The Day of the Triffids. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/" target="_blank"><b>IMDB</b></a> it, if you don't know what that is. That vine is the inspiration for this month's calendar, still all in hexies:<br />
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<br />Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-38778752005816206402015-05-01T00:00:00.000-05:002015-05-01T00:00:02.764-05:00May Desktop CalendarI almost didn't make it this month. Thought I had one more day before I had to really knuckle down and get on the May calendar, but today I noticed that April only has 30 days (by actually <i>looking</i> at the calendar on my desktop)! Go figure.<br />
This year's decision to only make quilt calendars with one-patch designs is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought. I don't think I thought this through on New Year's Eve...<br />
My friend Debbie is all agog with Kaffe Fasset fabrics as well as hexies, so this one's for her!<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-57207168290849413942015-04-01T00:00:00.000-05:002016-03-06T22:42:16.909-06:00April Desktop Calendar<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been Pinteresting a lot lately, mostly to kill time while I avoid doing all the things on my To-Do List. Don't you judge me - you do the same thing! It's like sitting on the sofa eating bonbons and reading movie magazines, as my grandmother used to say. But come on...why not? I've earned some down time with the year I've had. Oh stop. I <i>know</i> it's only April. Doesn't bode well for the rest of the year. So anyyywayyyy...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I was scrolling through pages and pages of perfect Pinterest Easter goody ideas, I found a whole page of Easter Treats - Easter Egg Oreo Truffles, fluffy Bunny Tails, Easter Bunny Pancakes, Spring Confetti Bars, Easter Rabbit Racecars, Easter Bunny Trail Mix....mmmmm....what shall I try first? Wait. What's that? Down at the bottom of the page. The left side. Is that....<i><b>Brussels Sprouts</b></i>??!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good way to ruin the sugar vibe I had going. Hang on while I go suck on a sugar cube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yum! And easy, too! Maybe I'll make up a couple of batches and send an Easter Bunny surprise to the grandkiddos in South Carolina. If it turns out. And if I don't eat it all while I sit on the sofa Pinteresting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Addendum April 3: And here's <i>my</i> Easter popcorn - delish!</span></div>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-49225824712927883262015-01-01T00:00:00.000-06:002016-03-06T23:01:10.057-06:00January Desktop Calendar<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">So 2014 is over, and I, for one, am looking forward to 2015...not necessarily anxiously, but more like guardedly optimistic about the year ahead. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">(Attention Grammarians - please don't start my new year off with correcting that sentence. Have pity on me and 1) my cold, 2) my 3rd glass of champagne, 3) my lack of sleep, or 4) my total disinterest in language arts at the moment. Or all of the above. Except for the 3rd glass of champagne. It's my 4th. And it's Moscato Asti. Happy New Year to me! And to you!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">I'll be back in a few - in the meantime, enjoy your desktop calendar, and accept my best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year!</span>Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-13723847988056413772014-12-09T09:00:00.000-06:002014-12-24T16:42:06.126-06:00Don't Get Your Bindings in a Twist!Have y'all heard the latest on Facebook about the <a href="http://www.easybindingwinder.com/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">Easy Binding Winder</span></b></a>?<br />
It's a quilter and sewist's must-have gizmo being developed by a two-person team of a quilt designer/online shop owner and entrepreneur/inventor.<br />
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The Easy Binding Winder is a tool designed to help the quilter or sewer keep their miles of quilt binding, bias tape, piping, etc., under control. In a nutshell, as you iron your strips of fabric in half, you thread it onto the EBW and use the handcrank to wind it up. (Just like we used to do with car windows before they became electric!) Then, after your lo-o-o-ng strip (as much as 40 feet for a king size quilt!) is totally wound up on the reel, you can take it over to your sewing machine and sew it onto your quilt (for instance) while it stays perfectly in control, slowly unwinding without twisting, tangling, knotting, or getting caught under your feet or sewing chair. Bonus: your miles o' binding are now kitty and puppy proof!<br />
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I was asked to put the prototype through its paces recently so I gave it a whirl.<br />
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This is the 3D-printed prototype of the future Easy Binding Winder. I had no idea what a 3D-printer was or that it could produce something that was, well...you know...3D!<br />
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There's one part missing from the photo - the little clamp to attach it to your ironing board. Since I was just testing this on my cutting table, I didn't need it. But the clamp keeps the Easy Binding Winder steady while you're ironing with one hand and winding with the other.</div>
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So here's the deal. This is how my binding looks as I get ready to press it. This was actually for a wallhanging, so it's only about 12' long. </div>
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I conscripted Gillian and Laura to help me - they were the hand models, and I was the photographer. This is how they looked when I explained what they were going to have to do: press/manage binding the old fashioned way. The outlook was bleak and drab. </div>
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They <b><i>so</i></b> didn't want to make binding.</div>
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And can you blame them? As they pressed the binding strip in half it piled up in a wad, then started to cascade over the edge of the cutting table and ended up a tangled mass on the floor. </div>
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I mercifully let them stop before they'd gone too far, but already you can see that the binding is starting to tangle. Imagine the pile that 40' of binding would make!</div>
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If you're right-handed, you'll place the EBW to your left on the ironing board and attach it with the clamp, not shown here, cuz I didn't need it! Press just the first couple of inches of your fabric in half, and feed it under the rod at the bottom, and slide it under the clip on the actual spool.</div>
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Once threaded, you can lay your iron down on the fabric close to the EBW, and begin to turn the handle which pulls the binding under the iron and winds it up neatly onto the spool. With the right hand, you can direct the fabric as it goes under the iron. Or you can do it the regular way, pressing a bit, then winding a bit. Think of that song from The Music Man: Press a little, wind a little, press a little, wind a little; press, press, press, wind it up, wind it up a little. </div>
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-12359624848696546882014-12-01T00:03:00.001-06:002016-03-06T23:04:26.362-06:00December Desktop CalendarWith all five of our children grown and, for the most part, out of the nest, I'm not really feeling the need to go all out with the decorating this year. I used to go a little crazy with the greenery, candles, Father Christmases, vignettes and creche's. (I have my grandmother's old figures that set in a wooden manger made by Kevin Manning, a highschool friend, a Precious Moments one, complete with kings, camels, and stable walls, an Amish one with quilts but without faces, a miniature one, a handpainted wooden one that fits like a puzzle into the stable, 2 different Hallmark ones...you get the idea.) I should pull them out so you can see. But that would take effort, so you know that's not going to happen any time soon.<br />
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Anyway, just like I used to go overboard with the decorating, Andy and I used to pile presents under the tree for the kids til they wouldn't <i>fit</i> under the tree, or even inside an 8' circle <i>around</i> the tree! Then, one year, embarrassed and dismayed by the Gift Gluttony that our kids began to exhibit, we came up with a solution to limit the gifts without making the kids pout and feel neglected.<br />
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After they all went to bed on Christmas Eve, Andy and I (ok, not so much Andy) stayed up late writing rhyming clues. One for each set of gifts. We'd put them in envelopes numbered 1, 2, and 3 and placed them on the tree. Christmas morning, the kids were allowed to get up however early they wanted, but they could only open whatever little gifts were in their stockings. At 7, they were allowed to wake us up. (Of course, wanting to make their Christmas morning all beautiful and magical for them, I'd get up at 5, light a fire in the fireplace, and put on soft Christmas music. Then I'd go back to bed.)<br />
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At this point, I'll say that at 2am on Christmas Eve, the clues seemed extremely clever and poetic, and I was <i>so</i> proud of my ability to cloak an obvious hiding place inside an obtuse reference. Come the harsh light of day, however, more often than not, it became an incomprehensible and unsolvable riddle. Probably due in part to the mugs of homemade egg nog heavily laced with rum consumed whilst composing.<br />
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The really cool part of this exercise was that I could sit back and have another cup of coffee or egg nog (shhhhh....with rum!) without all the hectic wrapping paper and ribbon explosions as in the past. And the kids really enjoyed the hunt. It extended present-opening from 5 minutes to about 2 hours! Bonus: since each of the kids were only allowed three presents, Andy and I became much more selective in our present shopping, which, lo and behold, saved us a ton of money! Win/win!<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-70413258796357989292014-10-01T00:00:00.000-05:002014-10-01T00:00:04.661-05:00October Desktop CalendarRemember last month when I said Fall was here? Yeah. I was wrong. Again. For tomorrow, the 1st of October, we're going to have a high of 90* and a low of 79* - <i>not</i> what I was hoping for. Better luck next month... In the meantime, get to work on those Halloween costumes!<br /><br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-40634892718931183742014-09-01T00:00:00.000-05:002014-09-01T00:00:00.615-05:00September Desktop CalendarLooks like fall is here: had a high of only 85 today and it's going to get down to 79 tonight! Woohoo!! It's almost chilly! Fall in Texas is a little different than Fall in the rest of the country. Leaves are sprinkling down like the rain we haven't had in 2 months. Not pretty, colorful leaves. Just crunchy dead ones.<br />
I've tried watering the lawns at both retreats, and even did an unheard of hour of hand-watering at my house the past two days. I even washed my car. Still no rain - and we had a 60% chance!<br />
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Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11416447131047298494noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398806366491048408.post-27295657818313011982014-08-01T00:00:00.000-05:002014-08-01T00:00:04.894-05:00August Desktop CalendarToo hot and too tired. I <i>knew</i> I should have gotten this out of the way a couple of days ago, but as usual, I put it off, and now, on the most hectic day this week, I remember that it's also the last day of July. And August starts in less than two hours. Ugh. Why do I procrastinate?! And the two glasses of wine I had with dinner aren't helping. Pardon me while I doze of for a minute. Or ten.<br />Just in the nick of time - here's the new calendar, with a semblance of a sunflower on it - that always reminds me of August.<br />
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Click to expand the image to full size, right-click and choose Set as Wallpaper or Background.</div>
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To really make the calendar "pop" right-click on your background and choose black. Your family and co-workers will be jealous of your awesome wallpaper! Be sure to tell them where you found it!</div>
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