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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Open For Business

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I've spent the better part of the last few days setting up and adding product to my cafepress shop, Idaho Beauty's Textile Arts at ...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Time for a Test

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Today was a putter day, catching up on paper work to help clear more off the work table. And also the day to set up my test on a product to...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Slightly More Exciting

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I finished quilting the tie quilt today, and I have to tell you, the conservative in me wasn't altogether sure about that thread choice....
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Not too exciting

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I started the quilting on my NY Beauty tie quilt today. Just stitching in the ditch along the arc and point seams. with the walking foot on...
Monday, August 25, 2008

August TIFC

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Today's my birthday, and I didn't want it to be just another Monday doing ordinary Monday things. The plan was to pack my bathing s...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Enough!

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Thanks everyone for your positive response to my block arrangement in yesterday's post. Wanda ( Exuberant Color ) advised: "You fi...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

How many ways...

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...can you rearrange New York Beauty blocks? A zillion, apparently. I did decide to add another row so pieced 4 more arcs on Saturday, the...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Remembering to Enjoy

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ARTiculations blog has a great post here about viewing Vincent an Gogh's The Starry Night and being reminded that we sometimes let th...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Coming together

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The local radio station as background wasn't going to cut it today. Motivational music of the day? Weather Report, Traveling Wilburys,...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Working with Silk

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Last week got crazy with a bit of a pet emergency. Things are back to what passes as normal in this household as of today - or at least I h...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Twitter

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"Bluebird of Unhappiness" June 2006 Journal Quilt Sheila Mahanke Barnes The previous post dealt with whether or not blogs should ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Selling through blogs

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I spotted an article in Sunday's paper by Kelly K. Spors about using social media to bond with customers, read here : This was geared t...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Dealing with Distractions

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I went into this week knowing it would be full of diversions that would make putting in my studio time a trick. Today was my first uninterr...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Lesson Learned

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Yesterday I picked up my quilts from ArtWalk and was disappointed, although not entirely surprised, that nothing had sold. So I was a bit b...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Is it art?

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Another battle that wages is what makes something art. Does there have to be intent on the part of the maker? Two recent newspaper items g...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

What's In a Name?

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There's an ongoing debate about what terminology to use to describe what it is people like me produce. I've heard all sides of the ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Just For Fun

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I've been working on a purely recreational project this week. It is part of my new plan of clearing my work table. I'm just diving...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Pottery Barn Wisdom

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Style Tip: Mixing neutral tones with white gives you the creative license to mix big patterns and soft textures. The style tip and the pict...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Silk

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"Creativity and high quality, that's our way to survive." Today not a fun one. Relegated to sewing on labels and filling out ...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Thought for the day...

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"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is...