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Smell of Progress -achoo!
2005-01-24 - 11:54 a.m.
Things I did this weekend:
- Friday Night Dinner and Socialization. Grocery run,
and bringing Red, Hot and Blue BBQ (and Alan and Kirsten) to
the amazing musical Olneys and Mellins.
- Saturday morning errands. Gas up truck before real snow
accumulation and run to Home Depot to exchange propane and get new
pulls for green room closet doors.
- String Day! Taught Giuli and her new apprentice Siobhan
basics of tablet weaving, and got them making chevrons and lozenges
like madwomen. ie: got to break in the string room.
yay!
- Dinner, rare occasion. Made a nice dinner for
Kirsten, Alan and I so as not to endanger the lives of pizza or chinese
delivery guys. I made chicken breasts stuffed with ham and a herb
cream cheese, Wendy's steamed asparagus wrapped in herb cream cheese
and proscuitto (actually pancetta since Giant was missing the real
stuff, but it was not nearly as good), and sour cream mashed
potatoes. And of course, snow-cream for dessert.
- More string. Finished my sampler tablet woven piece
on my Miguel loom, thus freeing it for a new and wonderful project to
be determined.
- Culled the tupperware herd. Tossed out all the tops
that had no matching containers and relegated one container and top to
"shop use only"
- Closet doors. Installed new luan closet bi-fold
doors in the Green room. Needed a little help from Alan and
Kirsten on shaving the doors to fit the non-!@%#@!-standard 59"
opening, fixing the bottom pivot points, and installing the groovy new
pulls.
- Nap
- Re-org of the fabric shelves in the sewing room.
With much thanks to Kirsten's help I have a large Gateway box of fabric
to be donated to anyone or any organization who can use them.
Most of the scraps are upholstry material in patterns that aren't
exactly period. I also have some modern use fabrics such as white
poly shantung and some blue rayon (?). So if folks are making
modern clothes, draperies, or upholstering furniture and need stuff,
let me know. Would it be helpful to bring the box to the
Lochmere and University events so folks can paw through? I'd
like the stuff to have purpose, because now it has none but taking up
space in my sewing room. Kirsten also helped me by taking some of
the nicer stuff herself, (there's gotta be some perks) most of
which was for quilting. She also organized all my decent sized
scraps into a box that is easier to tell what is what at a
glance. Yay the Kirsten! And again, Cosette would be
proud. There is still quite a bit to go thru in that mess
of a space, but it is incrementally improving. I've also
put curtains up where there used to be doors so when the space is
needed for guests, the fabric stash does not have to loom. I'm
also hopeful that it might cut down on dust on the fabric. pet
pet ... love the fabric, the shelves are now friendly again.
Of course now I have a whole list of stuff I want to do this week based
on the clean-er sewing room. A list I dare not post here for fear
of failure to get any of it done. But rest assured, any triumphs
will be trumpeted here loud and clear. Cause I'm that kind of
girl. :)
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