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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
3:13 pm	Writer's Block: School daze Did you remain at the same school(s) or transfer to a number of different schools growing up? How did your early educational experiences impact your self-esteem and confidence? Submitted By scarletpeonies View 1019 Answers I was fully confident until 4th grade when my world turned into a Judy Blume novel ("Blubber"), I remember being really happy in 3rd grade and learning a lot of science with my best friends Cathy Cole and Donald Rudeseli, helping Donald collect grasshoppers in the field next to the school and drawing a huge solar system on the classroom blackboard with Cathy. I never liked getting up early, but didn't actively hate going to school until 4th grade and beyond. I learned the lesson of "don't trust other people" really well in school, it has been a lot of hard work to un-learn it. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
6:01 pm	It's Here! 500 Art Quilts arrived at the Stern household today. My work is on pages 300 and 410. I am so happy to be included in such a great book. I remember ten years ago and more looking at books like this and wishing/hoping/dreaming of being included in them. Lots of hard work, persistence and paperwork later, and I am! :D As ELO says "Hold on tight to your dreams." (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
9:56 am	Year End Chicken http://andibeads.blogspot.com/2009/12/chicken-for-new-years-cuckoo-for-cocoa.html Because I had too much to leave in the comments at Havi's blog. This has been year. Overall I am still glad it is over, but there was a lot more good in it than I gave it credit for. Best wishes for a better 2010 for all of us! (Comment on this)
Monday, September 14th, 2009
10:25 pm	Happy Birthday aisling I hope you had a glorious day! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
12:21 pm	does anyone remember "TTPO" Back in the day one of the things I remember doing on the rubberstampers mail list was a "TTPO" swap where we sent odd things through the mail to each other. One of the things I sent was a little plastic child's chair. No box or anything, just a label with the address on it. My friend Beth was annoyed when I mailed her a jumbo spatula, because she had to pick it up at the trailer park office and they were teasing her about it. My friend Kevinn recently moved to FL (10 miles from my inlaws! go figure) and is looking for mail. Does anyone here know if we can still do stuff like put labels on spatulas and just send them through the mail? If anyone would appreciate that, I know Kevinn would, esp since he works for the post office. (Yeah, I could ask him, but that would give the element of surprise away). Thanks! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
9:27 am	Writer's Block: Commercial Appeal What is your favorite commercial from your childhood? Bonus points if you include a video of it. View 503 Answers (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
10:33 pm	Writer's Block: Lights Out All it takes is a blackout to realize how much we rely on electricity. What's your most memorable story from a power outage? View 501 Answers Ha ha ha. Which one? The one where I had an infant and it was 105F overnight and we didn't have $ for a hotel, or the one where it was 5F overnight and our town loses water when it loses power for a length of time and we spent two days uptown at the coffee shop and took showers at the homes of friends? I guess I'd have to go with the 5F overnight because that one lasted two days and the trip into town the first night of the outage was so eerie with everything being coated in ice and it being pitch black everywhere because of no power.... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
10:33 pm	Writer's Block: Fashion Forward What do you think we'll be wearing twenty years from now? Presented by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow. View 500 Answers One giant snuggie (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
10:59 am	Being Wooed Ah the siren call of the beads. I think it is the sparkling quality of light this time of year, the many facets of the color and energy as it comes through the humidity in the morning. Every so often I swear me and beads are finished, over with, how can I make a good body of work in a medium that takes me so long? I look at Bead and Button and Beadwork magazine and feel sick to my stomach at the amount of time it would take to make those projects and think "no, not me, I'm sticking to quilting". Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Yeah, today I was up in the studio. Picking beads. I did have an agenda this time, unlike the last time I was upstairs to play with beads (which ended highly unsatisfyingly). I want to create something magical, something with shape and texture and which tells a story, and to that end I decided to go with a mermaid theme. The beads came together quickly, as they often do, once I know what I'm looking for. I have a great pile on the sewing table, and I culled down to the basic beginnings, which include three colors of seed beads and some ceramic faces from Earthenwood Studios, a handfull of seed pearls and a large shell cabochon I bought way back when from Rosalie at Beads, Ltd. in Vienna VA. It's probably going to be wearable, because I loved having my magic with me when I go out into the world. Other than that I don't know. I'm taking my little pistol case to Donkey and beginning this afternoon. I'm so excited I can hardly sit here and tell y'all. I'll upload pictures probably after tonight's festivities (Izzy is doing a car show with his Boy Scout troop and we may stay; I may get some reference photos of the cars for another series in the quilts). What can I say? I'm bicraftual. :) Hope y'all have a wonderful holiday weekend! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
10:04 am	Writer's Block: When I Was Young What do you miss most about being a kid? Submitted By daeinleyof View 508 Answers Summer vacation/road trips with my grandparents in their RV. Sometimes they were spring vacations, as the time we went to Holland MI for the annual tulip festival. We also went to the Upper Peninsula at one point, visiting Tequomenon Falls and Whitefish Bay, and I have happy memories of swinging at a playground in the early morning fog on that trip. We also picked blueberries and went to the Call of the Wild museum in Gaylord MI, we had so much fun. (Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
3:03 pm	Beading Book Giveaway at my other blog Hi, y'all, some of you may not know that I have 8 designs in the recently published Beading With World Beads available from Lark Books. They've generously donated a copy for me to give away at my blog, you can read all about it here http://andibeads.blogspot.com/2009/06/beading-with-world-beads-giveaway.html Please pass along to anyone who may be interested. Thanks! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
4:42 pm	Writer's Block: Conversion Rate Have you ever considered converting to another religion? View 506 Answers I was considering it when dating Marty at the beginning (from Christianity to Judaism). Is it really converting if you are already that religion but want to attend a different sect? I love love love the Greek Orthodox cathedral in Columbus and attended vespers during the Greek Festival last fall. I would attend that church if we lived closer. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
10:35 am	Writer's Block: Talking Ducks Happy birthday, Donald Duck! Which cartoon character do you think is the most disturbing? View 500 Answers I'm not really sure about cartoon character, but I had this set of Bible stories which were lavishly illustrated by Basil Wolverton, and some of those images were pretty disturbing; he really got into depicting boils, etc for the plagues of Egypt... (OTOH I really loved the picture of Adam being created, I could practically feel the texture of the sand he appeared to be coming out of) (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
6:00 pm	Writer's Block: Grimm Question What was your favorite fairy tale as a child? Submitted By wolfy284 View 503 Answers Snow White and Rose Red, I think, from the wonderful red and gold Grimm's collection my Gran bought for me. There was wonderful fabric that was like the endpapers in the book. I still have the tattered quilt she made from it. :) (Comment on this)
Monday, June 1st, 2009
8:29 am	Writer's Block: Rabbit Rabbit! It's the first day of the month. If you could have one wish come true this month, what would it be? View 502 Answers To hear from and sell a piece to the collector I touched base with last week. Barring that, a well-paying job for Marty that lasts more than a month. :) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
9:59 am	Can You Help Me Out? I am working on my artist statement for the grant this fall as well as for my Artful Home application. I'm having a hard time clarifying and actually just talking about one or two points. Alyson B. Stanfield suggests you ask an impartial person some of these questions to help see how others view your work and what they may want to know that you think is obvious. http://www.embellishmentcafe.com/NEWwallgallery.htm for images of the work (for the grant I am using the water tower body of work; for Artful Home I will be including a bit more broader range, but all are pieced and appliqued) http://andibeads.blogspot.com/2008/09/water-towers-lifelong-passion.html for just the water towers Now for the questions. If you can answer any or all of them or if you have any other questions you can think of I would really appreciate it. (and there are no wrong answers and no stupid questions). Thank you in advance! 1. Do you have art in your home? Tell me about it, why you selected it, what drew you to it, what you love about it. 2. What do you find most interesting about my work? What are you attracted to? 3. What do you find least interesting? Distracting? Puzzling? 4. What would you like to know about how it was made, displayed, and so on? 5. Does it remind you of anything in your life? Or recall a memory for you? 6. Is there anything you would like to know about me or my background? Thank you *so* much! And please don't hesitate to ask if you would like me to help you with this kind of process! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
9:57 am	HowManyOfMe.com There are 30 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name? (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
7:50 pm	http://www.cantonart.org/3 The Shape of Fashion: Hats and Handbags May 15-July 26 2009 Yay! :D (Comment on this)
Friday, May 15th, 2009
6:32 pm	So I signed up for the Artella "Make Change with Your Muse" program. Each day I get an emailed lesson, with an art project (so far there have been 3; a daily art project would be too overwhelming since these are art projects with intention, not just playing) journal prompts and actions to take to help your sense of personal abundance and prosperity. A lot of the "change" talked about isn't really change in the money sense, it is change as in changing your outlook etc. I'm really enjoying it but haven't really found time to sit and do much more than prep my "change purse". I'm hoping to do something with it over the weekend. The show at Casa is hung, and we defintely will need more art for July's show. I will look through my larger work and see what we can put up. I didn't realize the ceilings were so high there, and several of the pieces I brought were just too small. I am plum wore out now, between hanging the show and doing 50 minutes on the bike path this morning (in the spirit of "when there's nothing left to burn, set yourself on fire"; I have burned through all my books etc and needed to do something truly physical instead of sitting at home or in a cafe w/notebook and computer). Aisha hurt her back in a diving incident on Wednesday, but is doing much better now. (in the words of Buddy from Night Court). She's going to try to drive up to Kent to see Jon for his birthday. I'm doing the worried mom thing til she gets there/changes her mind. That's all the news that's fit to print for now. Oh, and we got Ed back from the dealership. Shawn told me that $50 more and he would've been totalled. So so relieved. So nice to have our car back. Tomorrow is the International Street Fair uptown and I am looking forward to my roast corn ears and coconut rice pudding wrapped in banana leaves :) (If we hadn't gotten the car back, Aisha was still planning on going to Kent, so I am glad to have the car back). Hope you all had a really great day! :D (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
11:46 am	Frida has posted "Shopping by the Seasons" http://fridagoodhome.blogspot.com Given my druthers I would eat more farmer's market stuff, and once we are down another kid or two I'm sure things will change, but for now, yes, I buy processed food. But I make a lot from scratch as well. :) (Comment on this)