Today I spent my time washing, ironing and folding fabrics from other people's buying sprees. The monthly hunt on the flea market was so rewarding! A few shirts, including black stripes ;^}} jumped right into my arms.
The camera problem is still there, I have to take time to go and look for a shop to repair it. The web is a good thing, only service is a little hassle through the wires and the cables. No single arm can be put through my way, especially not when the wires are optic fibers...
Its already time for a drink, tomorrow DH and me will be eating (at least the soles of our shoes) some 15 miles in the vicinity of Almere, a town condtructed out of nothing on the bottom of a former sea. Dutch!
March 18, 2011
March 13, 2011
Rest in Pieces
It's a pity, it's a shame. Just a few months old, my camera went to rest, maybe 4ever?
I have to blog without fresh pictures, and I am not that happy with it. No instructions, no beautiful updates on my beloved Dutch landscapes, no records on my plodding along in Quiltland. It has been for 1 1/2 week now, this is why there is hardly an update on Green, Fabrilicious or even at Home. This week will be filled - there is no escape - with filing, clearing and finding out what to use as follower-up to the unwilling camera. There is still some guarantee on it, but as I ordered it on the web, things have to be found out in real life =^{
Look for what still is updated on the other pages...
There is nothing like technical progress... NOTHING....
But: spring is in the air, and love is all around, I am definitively descending from my attic to the ground floor to deliver a xxxxx to DH. A good advice for all of you, but today a special hug for Lane and Rob, and any others in love!
Be well and stay well.
I have to blog without fresh pictures, and I am not that happy with it. No instructions, no beautiful updates on my beloved Dutch landscapes, no records on my plodding along in Quiltland. It has been for 1 1/2 week now, this is why there is hardly an update on Green, Fabrilicious or even at Home. This week will be filled - there is no escape - with filing, clearing and finding out what to use as follower-up to the unwilling camera. There is still some guarantee on it, but as I ordered it on the web, things have to be found out in real life =^{
Look for what still is updated on the other pages...
There is nothing like technical progress... NOTHING....
But: spring is in the air, and love is all around, I am definitively descending from my attic to the ground floor to deliver a xxxxx to DH. A good advice for all of you, but today a special hug for Lane and Rob, and any others in love!
Be well and stay well.
March 10, 2011
Books to spend time on
Today has been a happy day in the end. After a grey meeting - the subject was grey: how to construct legal backgrounds for functioning as an organization - the sky didn't clear up, but my life did!
I went to one of the candy stores I visit whenever in need of cheering up, only to hear that the workshop I thought I registered for is fully booked. Some things go wrong, other things do turn out brighter than expected. Just to say hello sometimes is enough!
And: Tadaaa! I got the books I ordered from Unruly Quilters and Scrappy Shirttails! Wait, what's the name? It was Word Play by Tonya Ricucci, and Scraps & Shirttails # 2 by Bonnie Hunter! I have already been sorting out frabrics for both of them, yummie! Go to www.quiltville.com and order them! You won't be sorry!
DH is calling, he deserves to be fed ;^} pasta & homegrown peas!
I went to one of the candy stores I visit whenever in need of cheering up, only to hear that the workshop I thought I registered for is fully booked. Some things go wrong, other things do turn out brighter than expected. Just to say hello sometimes is enough!
And: Tadaaa! I got the books I ordered from Unruly Quilters and Scrappy Shirttails! Wait, what's the name? It was Word Play by Tonya Ricucci, and Scraps & Shirttails # 2 by Bonnie Hunter! I have already been sorting out frabrics for both of them, yummie! Go to www.quiltville.com and order them! You won't be sorry!
DH is calling, he deserves to be fed ;^} pasta & homegrown peas!
March 3, 2011
Thinking about you....
Dear oh dear! Get a little sightseeing done from here, I do know a whole bunch of people will like the pictures and the crispy-ness that emanates - advertising! - from these pictures. So, visit www.markenphotography.com
The nice fabrics, when new, are available at www.dutchquilts.com
I love my country, and am really aware why tourists are coming over. Its not the coffeeshops in the fist place, but places like these that will keep you nailed and hooked on the spot! Me included.
The nice fabrics, when new, are available at www.dutchquilts.com
I love my country, and am really aware why tourists are coming over. Its not the coffeeshops in the fist place, but places like these that will keep you nailed and hooked on the spot! Me included.
March 2, 2011
Drawstring bag and wrapping up
Sew, whenever you want to send anything in good shape, wrap it up in another useful thing: a drawstring bag! Very useful for sporting out or inviting in!
Just follow instruction in the presentation that will be up tonight!
2day is election day in the Netherlands, for the regional layer of our government. Cutting back on nature, education and culture seem to be the main issue for the occupants of the governmental seats up high.... while the working class is robbed - gradually, it's a salami game! Just take a thin sliver, and nobody moans. Till there is nothing left to hold on. I have a faint idea that we are rapidly approaching that last knot-in-the-rope when allowing this, and be left with nothing for our children to inherit: from pension plans cut down, to education made unimportant, humanitarian and christian values sold out. Radicalization is for have-nots: nothing to loose, everything to win. It's the story of so many a declining civilization. No hope left, no safe seats anymore,even not for members of the board. We need common sense, love those in need. Mystics tell that when Evil spreads, Nature will take revenge. There is just one answer: Spread Good for everybody. Not a single soul should be left out.
I just brought belongings from a dear friend of mine to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. He passed away ten years ago, may his remembrance be blessed, and things he saved in hiding during the Shoa arrived at the place where they belong. For future generations to see: how even grownups in hiding can look beyond their misery and are able to build a community from litterally scraps and tons of hope. Not hating those who inflicted the worst on them and their community. Remember to build. Remember to cherish and love. Remember that life is precious, whatever happens to you.
Be well.
ADHD is boring me.... you'll have the instruction of the drawstrin bags somewhere further in the week.... 8^{
Just follow instruction in the presentation that will be up tonight!
2day is election day in the Netherlands, for the regional layer of our government. Cutting back on nature, education and culture seem to be the main issue for the occupants of the governmental seats up high.... while the working class is robbed - gradually, it's a salami game! Just take a thin sliver, and nobody moans. Till there is nothing left to hold on. I have a faint idea that we are rapidly approaching that last knot-in-the-rope when allowing this, and be left with nothing for our children to inherit: from pension plans cut down, to education made unimportant, humanitarian and christian values sold out. Radicalization is for have-nots: nothing to loose, everything to win. It's the story of so many a declining civilization. No hope left, no safe seats anymore,even not for members of the board. We need common sense, love those in need. Mystics tell that when Evil spreads, Nature will take revenge. There is just one answer: Spread Good for everybody. Not a single soul should be left out.
I just brought belongings from a dear friend of mine to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. He passed away ten years ago, may his remembrance be blessed, and things he saved in hiding during the Shoa arrived at the place where they belong. For future generations to see: how even grownups in hiding can look beyond their misery and are able to build a community from litterally scraps and tons of hope. Not hating those who inflicted the worst on them and their community. Remember to build. Remember to cherish and love. Remember that life is precious, whatever happens to you.
Be well.
ADHD is boring me.... you'll have the instruction of the drawstrin bags somewhere further in the week.... 8^{
March 1, 2011
Getting things straight
You know what? I just cut up a jelly roll, but had to trim width of the strips in total for about half an inch... wobbly sides, strips in width changing between 2 and 2 1/2 inch, the latter mentioned on the label. Do you understand that people might feel robbed by the factory? This time no selfedge-spam, but width-inflation 8^{
Finally had notification that after so many weeks the post did deliver - still have to get confirmation from addressee - my birthday present to one of our dear sister-quilters. Even tooth fairies can look crossed > **<
I spent this day filling in notebooks, time tables and procedures for personal and professional use. Maybe that I will remeber all birthdays and festivities. Be the Force be with us all!
Finally had notification that after so many weeks the post did deliver - still have to get confirmation from addressee - my birthday present to one of our dear sister-quilters. Even tooth fairies can look crossed > **<
I spent this day filling in notebooks, time tables and procedures for personal and professional use. Maybe that I will remeber all birthdays and festivities. Be the Force be with us all!
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