- Tomorrow is September. Go figure.
- Turn 60 a week from tomorrow. Forty was England and Spain; fifty was a Very Ill Husband Indeed -- so sixty seems absolutely momentous!
- Down 22 lb in 20 months, and feel great!
- Daily studio time now a habit -- even 'on the road'.
- Identified some Goals and Dreams for the next year+:
- Travel:
- Attend another SAQA Conference -- ideally Santa Fe in April 2013;
- "Home" to Quebec in June 2013;
- Scotland -- Skye and Shetland -- for my 65th!
- Reading:
- The leather-bound Dickens, Bronte and various poets, belonging to my maternal grandmother, some of which I had restored years ago.
- Creativity:
- Finish my Level 2 C&G and see if there's a Level 3;
- Contribute to the SAQA Benefit Auction every year;
- Participate in everything SAQA Western Canada offers locally, and volunteer to help, too;
- Continue to be active in the SAQA Visioning Project;
- Renew membership in Focus on Fibre Arts and the Alberta Arts Council;
- Work through the 'creativity' titles on my studio bookshelf;
- Take lessons to improve my spinning/carding/combing skills and add to my textile repertoire;
- Categorize and then finish or 'frog' my Unfinished Objects!
- This is my 900th blog post. The First One was here, 'way back in February 2003 You can tell this space has evolved since then -- including a couple of name changes, and I no longer post a quote every weekend (I can't even remember how long that lasted!) -- but I am blessed to have a place where friends do gather, and read, and share comments about topics close to my heart like "handwork, gardening and family life". :-)
- If you do the math, you'll see that a Decade of Blogging is not far off! There will likely be a fresh look, and perhaps yet another name change (the address remains!)...And yes, there will be a give-away...or two...or three. This place is about fabric, and fibre, and floss, after all. Stay tuned!
- For those of you who like a post with photos, here's the second piece I finished to send off to Gail Harker Centre for Creative Arts' up-coming fundraiser:
- *With apologies to G&S, from whom I stole the title of this post, and the song so delightfully up-dated here by Opera Australia. Enjoy!
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| 'Caught' (C) 2012 - 5" x 7" on mat board |
