tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23909850578999281152024-03-13T22:23:31.721-05:00Creative Crone from studio QThe ramblings of a Creative Crone! I consider myself to be the Grandma Moses of the Fiber Arts World as I came to the art late in life. My blog will consist of my art; art of others; an occasional book review because when not creating, I am reading; perhaps an enlightening discussion on a favorite quote...and positive discussions of politics/world affairs only!Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.comBlogger794125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-72304630579309445972018-10-21T14:32:00.000-05:002018-10-21T14:32:59.873-05:00Books Reviewed!!!!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="font-weight: bold;">Voltaire</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="authorOrTitle" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="authorOrTitle">A few weeks ago, PBS advertised the beginning of <a href="https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/the-100-books-on-the-great-american-read-list/">"The Great American Read"</a>. So I looked up and printed off the hundred books on the current list. (Go to link to see list.) Out of the 100, there are 36 I have not read, so being the devoted reader that I am, I decided to make a point of reading those, either manually or </span>audibly. I am still working on the list but have either read or dismissed the following reviews so far. As I either began reading or listening, I did begin to realize why I had not read some of them...and dismissed them; not compelled to finish them! So those I will list first... now keep in mind this is just my opinion! You may feel completely different from my decision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 1. Fifty Shades of Gray by E. L. James-I never did have an interest in this series so didn't even attempt to read this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. Foundation by Issac Asimov- I did try this book from Asimov's series and, although I do like SciFi, this one was a little too far out for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 3. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson- and after the first 50 or so pages, I knew this was going to be 'way too preachy for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - again, 50 or so pages in, a bit too much SciFy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 5. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan- This is the book that the gals in "Little Women" turned to for solace! Not my speed, thank you, but I did try!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe- started out pretty interestingly, a village in deepest Africa, probably late 1800's but not sure; didn't finish...'way too much violence towards children and women!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 7. White Teeth by Zadie Smith- Again this had a good start; but the characters just became too annoying for me to want to continue with them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 8. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin -*** Delightful! I had seen the TV series several years ago, but had not read any of the books..I will continue with the series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 9. A Separate Peace by John Knowles***-just one of those I had not gotten around to reading; very readable coming of age story set in early 40's; privileged white boys' private school; early WWII.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 10. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins-***A tale about the Rapture, which is a fairy tale as far as my belief system goes...so I read it like SciFi and could then enjoy the intrigue developed....I will probably not continue with the series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 11. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ***-written in 1898; well written tale of Marlowe, a seaman stranded deep in the Congo. Because of the time it was written, the book seemed a bit stiff to read compared to our more fluid writing style of today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 12. Hatchett by Gary Paulson***- Young boy must fend for himself after the plane he is in with only the pilot, who does not survive, goes down in the Alaskan wilds. Very readable; is a series...probably more YT in subject matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 13. The Shack by William P. Young *- a cloying tale of loss and coming to faith while bonding in the wilderness with the Trinity; I continued with it because I was waiting to see how god (who was a large black woman) explained why he/she would allow these tragedies to occur...never did get an answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 14. Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline **** A very good read, especially if you are a 15 year old nerd, really into virtual reality! This was a SciFi book I could enjoy...from the narrator's standpoint of life in the future and how good conquers evil in the virtual gaming world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 15. Ghost by Jason Reynolds **** Not a "scary" ghost story...but another coming of age story from the opposite end of the scale...poor black boy with a talent for track...discovered by his coach who befriends him in the worst of times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon**** A story of an autistic boy, mid teens; his dealings with change, trust issues, imagination...very well done by Haddon who has written many books for teen boys; one has to feel he must have had experience with autism to write so authentically!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 17. Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston***** I really recommend the audio version of this book if you can get the one with Ruby Dee reading! She really makes the characters come to life!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And that concludes the Great American Read Books I have read...or not! I will continue to read the rest of my list (or not) and will report back! In the meantime, I have also read or listened to several books not on the list which I would like to review now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> First a list of just three star books:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 1. All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda *** A mystery of a young woman coming home to help care for a sick father; there is a new case of a missing girl, resembling a case that took place when she lived there several years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett *** Tale of dysfunctional families, divorce, stepchildren etc. Just OK...tended to be a bit annoying at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 3. Being Closed Doors by B.A. Paris *** The "perfect" marriage! Or is it??? How to deal with being married to a maniac! I needed to find out how she finally copes with her less than ideal marriage, but I just wanted to slap her silly for being such an idiot at times!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And now my four and five star books!</span></div>
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1. I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon **** This was a bit of different twist on the age old tale of the Romanovs. It is narrated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Anderson">Anna Anderson,</a> the lady who claimed to be Anastasia...I had not ever read anything from her point of view...and also narrated by Anastasia Romanov. Interesting approach! And now with all the scientific means to dispel the myths surrounding the Family, the novel sheds a whole new way of looking at the probable fraud.<br />
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2. The Good House by Ann Leary **** A very entertaining story of a middle aged lady who happens to be a realtor in a small New England town and an alcoholic! The various characters and her dealings with family and customers creates some interesting situations for her...although there are many humorous incidents, the topic of alcoholism is handled very seriously and adds to the development of the theme.<br />
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4. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate ***** A heartbreaker! A historical fiction based on the stealing of poor children by a state run orphanage in Tennessee from 1939 until just recently. Then the children are adopted out to wealthy families unable to have children of their own. <br />
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5. The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck ***** One of my favorites! And a bookclub pick. What I found particularly interesting in this book was the description of how some good Germans got taken in by Hitler and the whole Nazi mentality. Although the characters are fictitious, the plot to kill Hitler was real...this just takes us to the end of WWII and how hard life was for those who had tried to do the right thing.....Strong women, for the most part, making difficult decisions for survival.<br />
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-34133587548845733832018-10-16T12:02:00.002-05:002018-10-16T12:02:26.651-05:00NTAQ October Meeting<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><span style="color: blue;">The best time to make friends is before you need them.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> (</span><a href="http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?authid=3111" style="color: #000044; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" title="More Art Quotes by Ethel Barrymore">Ethel Barrymore</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> Yesterday, we met at the FWCAC (Fort Worth Community Arts Center) to view the newest works of art on display there. The title of the show is</span></span><a href="http://www.fwhomefiresart.org/" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"> HOMEFIRES: A special presentation by seven homegrown artists.</a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> (Go to this link for more information about the show and the artists' themselves.) One of our own NTAQ members, Wendy Hook, is one of the featured artists. I have shown Wendy's work often here on my blog...she is so fabulous!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Wendy's and a couple works by others</td></tr>
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After we enjoyed the show, we met at Wendy's for our monthly "show" of what we had been doing. I had missed the September meeting as had a couple of others, so we also brought our challenges for that month. Before that we had visited the Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Modern of FW so we were to do something reflecting on that exhibit, "The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg".<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Murakami Challenge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea...lots of octopi legs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kay..a shibori Octopus leg!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bethany</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mine...I used "cheater cloth" I had purchased a long time ago and<br />finally found a use for it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhonda..got creative with paint!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of our Murakami's together</td></tr>
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Then we also showed our challenges for October... A Picasso.."The Birdcage".</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">October Challenge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhonda</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bethany</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the "Birdcage" Challenges together</td></tr>
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Only five had their challenges ready for show...Heather has been traveling quite a bit but did show what she had done at a class with <a href="https://mariashell.com/">Maria Shell</a>, a fiber artist and friend, in British Columbia.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heather with work from class</td></tr>
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I had not done the challenge either as I had been busy working on a lectern hanging for my church for fall....<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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And I really want to get back to a couple of large things I have been working on for a long time!!! One is my quilt I started at Alegre last spring when Andrea and I went to <a href="http://www.katiepm.com/">Katie Pasquini Masopust</a>'s class "Fractured Landscapes Quilts". It is pretty much as it was when I came home with it and I am determined to spend some quality time finishing it!!! Notice, I did not set a specific deadline! Here is where I am with it!<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The picture I am using for my landscape...a natural ampitheater near<br />Abiqui, New Mexico...Georgia O'Keeffee area!<br />I call these guys "The Sentinels!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My fractured landscape</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally unpacked the fabric I had taken with me...ready to have at it again!!</td></tr>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-89227876872479839012018-09-16T22:50:00.000-05:002018-09-16T22:50:06.507-05:00NTSAQA September Meeting<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” </span></span><br />
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<span class="authorOrTitle" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b>North Texas SAQA met Saturday at our usual place, Must Love Fabrics in Grapevine. The owner of the fabric shop is so nice to work with; there is a large room where we can spread </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">out and do messy stuff like painting! The workshop that I presented to our members started a couple months ago when I showed this wall hanging.</span></span><br />
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I had created this several years ago in a class I took at <a href="https://www.arrowmont.org/">Arrowmont</a>, an arts and crafts school in Gatlinburg, Tennessee...painting on canvas, using duct tape to mask off areas, cutting up and reconstructing. After explaining the process, several asked if I would do a workshop on the technique. We had a great turnout! Here are the gals all working away!<br />
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We had a couple of visitors....Denny is host to a couple of exchange students from Japan; she had called me last week to see if it would be ok to bring them to the meeting. to which I responded of course...if we had room for them....which we did! They were so eager to paint with us, a real pleasure to see their enthusiasm! </div>
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At our meeting, we always have a show 'n tell...things we had been working on, activities of interest, announcements, etc. The above picture shows Deborah Boschert showing her article in the latest Quilting Arts magazine. In this same issue, there is an article written by another of our members, Heather Pregger. Heather is also in my other local group, NTAQ, and her article was about some of our challenges. </div>
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At the next NTSAQA meeting, everyone is supposed to make something out of the fabric they painted this month. It will be fun to see what everyone comes up with!</div>
Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-33931958777035101822018-08-23T12:08:00.002-05:002018-08-23T12:08:20.484-05:00NTAQ Meeting for August<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> ~Vincent Van Gogh</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span> Last Monday, my friends/artists of NTAQ met at my condo for our August meeting. This time I had put forth the challenge of "Art </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Raleway, sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Nouveau". Many, including myself, found this to be a bit of a tough challenge to depict! I had given a list of Art Nouveau artists to choose from (or they could go out on their own). I chose for my artist Mary Fraser Tytler Watts, a woman who, with her artist husband, worked in various styles...Art Nouveau, Celtic art, architecture, but what interested me about Mary was her activity as an early suffragette in England. I kind of strayed from the Art Nouveau theme and picked up on her Celtic designs instead. She was the architect and artist for her husband's family mortuary. I chose one of the columns which I found appealing.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I actually graphed out my design instead of just stitching improvisationally.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It ended up larger than I usually do 30" x 42"</td></tr>
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At our meeting we all shared our challenges.</div>
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Wendy took her design from a stained glass window.</div>
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Kay liked the trees on a book cover and was also influenced by the color of a particular type of Aspen.</div>
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Heather was inspired by a rose in a stained glass window.</div>
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Andrea's was taken from the curlycue pattern seen in many Art Nouveau works.</div>
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A fun meeting as usual...after sharing all our stuff, we went to a new restarurant in the Shops of Clearfork which is very near me...so many new places to eat!!! We chose "Fix", a very nice lunch had by all. (And I want to apologize for my dreadful form on this blog. I am having trouble with making paragraphing and captions with pictures to work so bear with me! I also do not know why some of my lines are highlighted!! I need a good tutorial!!!)</div>
Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-63374742576937177042018-08-21T19:14:00.000-05:002018-08-21T19:14:46.721-05:00An Abundance of Art<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1711.Thomas_Merton" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thomas Merton</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">This past month has been very full of doing some of the things I love best...making art, seeing art, and seeing art with friends! Last month our SAQA Circle met at the Dallas Museum of Art to see an exhibit by<a href="https://www.owenslaura.com/"> Laura Owens.</a> She is a prolific artist whose work you can check out through the link by clicking on her name. Although I did like some of her pieces, I felt she is still searching for her identity as her work is all over the place.</span><br />
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While there, we also visited a couple other exhibits. The "Hopi Visions" was really interesting as I am particularly interested in their culture.<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;"></span><br />
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Another exhibit we enjoyed was the Asante Kingdom of Gold. A rich depiction of gold from an African Kingdom....especially interesting was the Kente fabrics which were woven with gold strands and worn by the royalty.<br />
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And, of course, we ended the visit with lunch at the DMA cafe....always a highlight!</div>
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The Modern of Fort Worth has been hosting an exhibit of the works of <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/takashi-murakami">Takashi Murakami.</a> I have been to see this exhibit three times now....the first was just a quick run through after having lunch with a friend at the Cafe there. The second time was with one of my daughters and my granddaughter. The first time I went I didn't realize there was a film showing the artist at work and his process of creating these huge, detailed works. When I went the second time we discovered the film and I highly advise seeing it before you see the rest of the exhibit.</div>
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The third time I went was last Saturday with my SAQA group. I was surprised at all I did not see the other times. It's not that I love his work, but more that I am amazed by it!<br />
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This is one of his early works...all that were on display were dark and rather dismal. But somewhere along the way he discovered color!</div>
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This is a wall just outside the elevator leading into a doorway of another wall of art...see the profusion of color!! And my picture really does not do the colors justice.</div>
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He also works in three dimension...here is one of his statues...a monk which is a bit of a self portrait! Yes, the face is spilt and you do see two faces...I am sure there is some deep meaning behind that! This is a miniature...if you are familiar with the Modern, he would go nicely with the little lady sitting on her suitcase!</div>
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Unlike these two guys who are temple guards totally demonic....and Huge!!!!</div>
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And another shot of the hallway straight out from the elevator in the stairway area. Down at the end is an interesting sculpture made of polyurethane. The making of it is shown on the film down stairs. </div>
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When my kids and I visited the Modern, we also went across the street to see what the Kimbell has on display...</div>
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This is a fabulous collections of art, pottery jewelry, kimonos, tools, weapons collected by <a href="https://landsofasia.kimbellart.org/exhibit">Sam and Myrna Meyers</a>. I unfortunately didn't get any pictures of the beautiful kimonos, but you can click on the link which will take you see more.<br />
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I did get a picture of this vest which is made up of squares of jade! Can you imagine wearing something like that in a Texas summer?</div>
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I have also been taking in several of the films at the theater Magnolia at the Modern. The last two I have seen with friends are "Rodin" and " Gauguin", both French films with subtitles; I have thoroughly enjoyed both of them..a bit of insight on two of my favorite artists...I especially liked the Rodin film as I didn't know that much about his background. Here is a link to the upcoming movie schedule for anyone interested. <a href="https://www.themodern.org/films">https://www.themodern.org/films </a></div>
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My own NTAQ art gals met here yesterday, but I think I will save that for another blog!</div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-49259968474965492222018-07-23T17:09:00.000-05:002018-07-23T17:09:04.474-05:00Book reviews<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” </span></span><br />
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I think the last time I did a book review, I was just starting to read <b>"A Gentleman in Moscow"</b> <b>*****</b> by Amor Towles. Well, I am here to tell you it was one of the best books I have read in a long time!!! I loved every page of it! It begins in the early days right after the Russian Revolution. Count Rostov has come before the Tribunal to be sentenced for having written a subversive poem several years ago. We discover he didn't really even write the poem but took the blame for a friend who would probably end up in the Gulag, whereas, the Count's sentence is to live the rest of his life in the Metropol Hotel where he had been living anyway! The book takes us through 30 plus years of his life in the hotel...wonderful characters, fascinating historical tidbits and quite a bit of intrigue especially towards the end! Did I mention that I liked this book immensely!!!<br />
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Another book I did enjoy was <b>"What She Left Behind" ***** </b>by Ellen Marie Wiseman...the story of a foster girl who is working with her foster parents who work in antiquities and restoration cleaning out a now closed Insane Asylum...trying to piece together some of the stories of the inmates from their personal possessions left behind....I also gave this five stars, because it really kept my interest and tells a great deal about those institutions of the early 1900s...warning...not for the faint of heart!<br />
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<b> "Burnt Mountain"**** </b>by Anne Rivers Siddons, a mystery taking place in the Appalachian Mountains in Georgia...not a hillbilly thing, but in the areas where the wealthy congregate...rich girl falls for boy parents don't approve of, etc..I found the story to be pretty intriguing.<br />
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<b> "The Cuckoo's Calling"*** </b>by Robert Galbraith (actually JK Rowling under a pseudonym) but nothing like Harry Potter and I didn't know it was hers until I did little research on the author for this blog! Her detective Cormoran Strike is a one-legged large man, who is full of angst but likable, compassionate, struggling to make ends meet. He is Rowling/Galbraith's newest character and this is the first of the series written in 2013. There are three more out and I will probably try to read them all as Cormoran is a pretty interesting character. A good audio book.<br />
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<b> "To Capture What We Cannot Keep"**** </b>by Beatrice Colin...a historical novel about the building of the Eiffel Tower and the men who had the dream. Very enjoyable...I found the descriptions of the development and the moods/opinions of the tower as it was being built very interesting.<br />
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<b>"Night Woods"*** </b>by Charles Frazier...another mystery taking place in the Appalachian Mountains. This time, murder and intrigue involving more poor folk! A good audio book.<br />
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<b>"The Chalk Man"*** </b> by C.J. Tudor... a murder mystery/ intrigue reminiscent of "Stand By Me". A murder took place when these kids were young; now as adults, it comes back to haunt. A good audio book.<br />
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<b>"Laura and Emma"*</b> by Kate Greathead I am not alone in saying this book leaves a lot to be desired...the original premises is not bad...rich girl wants to be independent, has a baby, but always knows she has her family wealth to fall back on...whine, whine...and then just as I am kind of beginning to think we are getting somewhere...the baby is now a teenager...the book ends...and the poorest, dumbest ending ever! Did I mention I did not care for this book???<br />
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<b> "The Family Next Door"****</b> by Sally Hepworth. I liked this book. It takes place in Australia; four lady neighbors living in probably a cul de sac. We get to know them and their problems; post partum depression is one of their concerns..a bit of hanky panky for another...past wrong doings coming to the surface! A very good audio book.<br />
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<b> "A Is For Alibi"***</b> by Sue Grafton I had never read a Sue Grafton and when I read that she had died awhile back, I thought I would give her a try....she has written soooo many books! I listened to this as an audio book and would listen to others. Her protagonist is a lady detective, Kinsey Millhone who is your typical tough gal, get 'er done, kind of character. This first novel was written in 1982 and Grafton's last was "Y Is for Yesterday" in 2017. She died of cancer before she could get to her last one, "Z Is for Zero". It will be interesting to listen to a more recent one to see if her style changed through the years even though Kinsey remained her lead.<br />
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And my last book to review is <b>"Ruthless Tide"*****</b> by Al Roker (yes, THE Al Roker!) Again a very good read...although I did listen to it as an audio. This is non-fiction about the the Johnstown flood which happened in Pennsylvania in 1889, one of our countries worst disasters. A spellbinding account of what happened. I didn't know Al Roker was an author; I'll need to see what else he may have out there!<br />
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So that sums up what I've been reading or listening to lately. I have learned to really like audio books to have on hand when I am busy doing other mindless things....cleaning, laundry etc. I don't turn on tv until evening and I practically never listen to the news any more so audio has become my new entertainment!! I still like a good ol' fashioned paper book, too, though!Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-26936124476991934862018-07-18T23:21:00.000-05:002018-07-18T23:21:13.604-05:00NTAQ Meeting<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” </span></span><br />
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This past Monday, my most favorite art group met. And as usual we had a great time! Our challenge for this month, presented to us by Michelle, was to choose one of the artists of the <a href="https://www.theartstory.org/movement-bauhaus.htm">School of Bauhaus </a>and create a quilt with one's choice as inspiration. The Bauhaus was the most influential schools of art and design in the 20th century...in Dessau, Germany from 1919-1933. The school was populated with many well known artists on the faculty...Kandinsky,<a href="https://www.theartstory.org/artist-albers-josef.htm"> Josef Albers</a>, Paul Klee and others. Josef Albers' wife <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/anni-albers/">Anni</a> was one of the prominent artists who started there.<br />
After researching several of the artists' I chose Otti Berger. Otti, as well as many of the others was a weaver. She was very talented and innovative; but unfortunately she was living in very dangerous times. Many of the school left Germany for England then on to America when Germany fell under the spell of Nazism. Being of Jewish ancestors, Otti did go to England, but being unable to get a job...not being able to speak the language and being hearing impaired...she returned to her home and there in 1944 with her family she was arrested and taken to Auschwitz where she died. If she had been able to stay in England, if it had been a year later, her story would have ended differently!<br />
<br />Her story as well as her talent is why I chose her as my artist for the challenge.<br />
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I decided to make a quilt to honor Otti. The first thing I did was to write her story, then to print it off on fabric. This is accomplished by ironing fabric to freezer paper, cutting it to the size of computer paper and run it through the printer.</div>
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<br /> Then I printed off a picture of one of her weavings on fabric, and added her picture onto the fabric by running it through the printer a second time.</div>
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I then began to sew together strips of fabric, somewhat emulating the weaving I had printed off. And step four was to put it all together. It is approximately 14" x 33" in size.<br />
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Here are some of my NTAQ buddies' challenges:</div>
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And here is a picture of all of them together. Most chose Anni Albers for their inspiration. Heather chose Gunta Stolzl and my choice of Otti Berger were some of the other artists at the Bauhaus as well as many others.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bauhaus inspired quilts by NTAQ<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> We usually have some activity when we meet...sharing new techniques, etc. so in keeping with the idea that many of the students/artists at the Bauhaus were weavers, I got some little cardboard looms, yarn, needles, together to do a small weaving project. We plan to bring them back to our next meeting to show what we did with our weaving!</span></td></tr>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-66227978659767153562018-06-22T21:56:00.000-05:002018-06-22T21:56:29.099-05:00Interfaith Service<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." </span><br /><span style="color: #000066;">- </span><a href="http://www.betterworldheroes.com/dalai-lama.htm" style="color: #000066;">The Dalai Lama</a></span></div>
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Last night I attended the Interfaith Prayer Service for the Children at the University Christian Church, Fort Worth, Texas. UCC is a very large church and the sanctuary was filled!! Several members of my church, Westside Unitarian Universalist, were there with me. <br />
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There were others at the service also, just not around when I took the picture. We were pretty close to the front; before the service began I looked back and was amazed to see the that the church had filled up! As I sat there....this guy came up to me to say "Hi"...I had to give him a big hug. Kevin is the SIL of a friend of mine and is the minister St. Alban's Episcopal Church at 305 W. Main, Arlington. He was one of the organizers of the service. It was good to see him!<br />
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This very special service was great in so many ways....the crowd, the music, the sincerity of all. And most of all the diversity of the presenters and attendees...Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist, NONs, and probably more that I am not aware of! <br />
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Now, as many of you know, prayer is really not in my vocabulary, per se, but I do believe in the power of numbers and positive thinking. Seeing all these various faiths together, all striving for the same goals...helping the children caught in the maelstrom of politic chaos. I like the quote I found by the Dali Lama (above). And there is another one I found by Walter Cronkite. "<span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 47, 183); color: #392fb7; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 47, 183); color: #392fb7; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment."</span><br />
<span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 47, 183); color: #392fb7; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 47, 183);"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don't know when he said this but he has been gone for over nine years so for him to have said this at another interfaith service many years ago, means we haven't gotten there yet so we have a lot of work to do to get there! </span></span><br />
<span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 47, 183);"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> One young lady read one of my (and I am sure everyone's) favorite poems: "The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus -1883....</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>The New Colossus </i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,</i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><strong><i>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" </i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #392fb7;"> </span> At the end of this beautiful service, a two page list of "how to help" was handed out. If anyone is interested, let me know and I will scan and post the list....either respond by email or leave a comment here.</div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-90957797636168874512018-06-20T22:56:00.002-05:002018-06-20T22:56:55.929-05:00NTAQ Art<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4750._mile_Zola" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Émile Zola</a><br />
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Monday, my North Texas Art Quilters held our monthly meeting. We met at Kay's house to do some dyeing. She had set up her garage for us to work with Indigo dye. Indigo is a bit different than other dyes. If interested, you can go to the link <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=X3QYrVp5YEc">here</a> to find out more about it.<br />
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Our challenge this month was to choose a favorite work of art from a museum, gallery, book, etc. and be inspired to create a quilt. My friend Heather is also a blogger and did a great job showing all our pictures of our challenge so you can go to her blog from this<a href="http://heatherquilts.blogspot.com/"> link</a> to see what everyone did.<div>
What I am gong to blog about is some other pics of our meeting as well as my process of my challenge for this month</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kay, our hostess, had been dyeing with her niece.<br />This is a duvet cover they indigo dyed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle, wearing a necklace she made with kitchen strainers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle showing a quilt she made with dyed cheesecloth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heather showed 25 yards of fabric she had dyed at home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy showed a new quilt she had made, some of the fabric<br />from men's shirts she had bought from Good Will</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy had also just returned from a design class<br />where she worked with painted paper with the<br />plan of recreating the design out of fabric.</td></tr>
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And now, my process for our June challenge which I described earlier. I had chosen "Interior of the Buurkerk, Utrecht" by Pieter Jansz Saenredam 1645. This is one of my favorite paintings at the Kimbell in Fort Worth. I love the clean lines, the perspective and the subtle colors.</div>
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I first sketched out a very abstract drawing of some of the shapes. Then I cut out the paper and traced each onto the back of fused fabric. I decided to create a somewhat stained glass look so, after cutting out the fabric, I placed it on a black satin background. (One of my personal goals for our monthly challenges is to use only fabric I already have...not to buy any new!!) The fabric I used was some upholstery scraps I had as well as some raw silk I had picked up somewhere!</div>
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Then I auditioned two similar fabrics for the border...light on dark or dark on light?</div>
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After fusing it all down on the background fabric, and stitching the borders on, I quilted around each section with a tight zigzag stitch then quilted most sections, leaving a few unquilted for emphasis.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here is a picture of all our quilts from our individual choices.</td></tr>
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Our challenge for July is to choose one of the artists' from " The Women of the Bauhaus School", a German school of art including weavers, industrial designers, photographers, etc. which existed between 1919 and 1933....more info to come in a future blog!!Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-19947322432452909732018-06-18T23:35:00.000-05:002018-06-20T23:00:16.141-05:00Artsy Saturday<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” </span></span><br />
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Last Saturday, North Texas SAQA met at Must Love Fabrics, a fabric shop in Grapevine Texas which has space for us to meet and occasionally make stuff or have demos. We had several new members/visitors and lots of "show and tell". At our last meeting, we decided to share with everyone our quilt/art beginnings! Most of us started out as traditional quilters and branched out into becoming fiber artist in different ways.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea with her first quilt </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea's first class- a Lone Star Quilt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A more recent art quilt of Andrea's from a class</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jenn showing some of the fabric she dyed at our last meeting </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jenn -with one of her art quilt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natalie has always made art quilts and has a love<br />
of all things Japanese</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natalie created a very graphic quilt-"Just One"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diann with the help of Andrea, shows her two related<br />
quilts, representing herself and her identical twin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhonda- showing one of her winning quilts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorene started out as a painter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorene now says she paints with fabric! Here<br />
an incomplete work of hers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donna has always worked with art quilts,<br />
creating her own patterns.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donna shows a more recent work of her art in fabric</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheryl, always working in fiber art, shows a<br />
humorous quilt of a former workshop teacher.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessica shows a large piece of fabric she also dyed<br />
at our May meeting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jessica with an early work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carolyn, who works in fiber arts, shows her self portrait</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heather shows one of her early traditional quilts</td></tr>
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A fun meeting learning about our personal art journeys! Then of course, a ver important part of our meetings....going to lunch. For July, we are going to the Dallas museum of art to see the Laura Owens exhibit. </div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-90099018063985520302018-06-15T21:47:00.000-05:002018-06-20T22:59:20.057-05:00Recent Books I Have Read<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” </span></span><br />
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Along with my art and my travels, I have been reading. I usually have two or more books going at a time. I belong to two book clubs so I have those two each month. Then I have my own choices to read and I almost always have an audio book going....sometimes book club books, sometimes my own choice.</div>
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1. <b><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: red;">The Marriage of Opposites</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- </span></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By Alice Hoffman </b> I love Alice Hoffman and this book did not disappoint. Set in Saint Thomas in the early 1880's and covering nearly a century, a fascinating story of the artist, Camille Pissarro's mother....and eventually about him. I love her descriptions of locale and times...with unforgettable characters. *****</div>
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2. <span style="color: red;"><b>Being Mortal</b></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">- By Atul Gawande </span>A Bookclub Choice- Non fiction written by a doctor. I had trouble getting into this book, but I found it in my library's list of audios and enjoyed listening to it. I enjoy listening to documentaries and TED talks, so I found this to be of similar genre. It focuses on end of live decisions for the elderly and their families...sounds bleak but is very informative.***</div>
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3. <b><span style="color: red;">Future Home of the Living God </span>- by Louise </b><b>Erdrich </b> A very different work for Erdrich. A dystopian work that was not up to her usual standards, in my opinion...Religion, babies born out of wed lock, fighting the system....all great subjects, just not her best. **</div>
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4. <b><span style="color: red;">Killlers of the Flower Moon </span>by David Grann </b> Subtitle: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Another bookclub selection...about the Osage Indians in Oklahoma, early 1900's and how they were robbed of their wealth and murdered by some very ruthless men...also the first National Case the FBI handled under the new leader, J. Edgar Hoover. A riveting tale which made me angry at how, once again, we were monsters to the Native Americans...not just the murders, but in many other ways. *****</div>
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5. <b><span style="color: red;">Women of the Silk </span>by Gail Tsukiyama </b> A fascinating story of the women who were worked to create the silk which was a commodity of China in the early 1900's, how they came to be in the business and how they bonded to survive. I really enjoyed this book and have heard she has a sequel out so we can follow the main character further in her life. "The Language of Threads" *****</div>
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6. <b><span style="color: red;">The Nightingale </span>by Kristin Hannah </b>I read this a few months ago but am not sure I ever reviewed it. France 1939-WWII, espionage. Great characters! This is my first book by Kristin Hannah but it won't be my last....really enjoyed it!****</div>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">8. <b><span style="color: red;">The Whistler </span>by John Grisham </b> I had not read a Grisham in quite awhile and although this is not a new book, it was one I hadn't read. And he has not lost his touch! Keeps the reader involved to the last page. ****</span></div>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">9. </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: red;">The Whole Town's Talking </span>by Fannie Flagg </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Again, I had not read anything of Fannie Flagg's for a long time and this was very typical of her early works. Actually this was published in 2016 but somehow I had missed it. Fun characters...real down-home, small town folk! Growing up in a small town, I could really relate to many of the situations! This book covers about 100 years of the development of a town in Missouri to its modern day life...and after life. Reminesent of "Spoon River Anthology"! ****</span></div>
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Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I spent all day at the Original Sewing EXPO in Arlington, Texas at the Convention Center. I am a member of SAQA (Studio Art Quit Associates) and we had an exhibit at the EXPO titled "Wild Fabrications" which was a wonderful exhibit of very creative works of arts about animals. But what I really want to focus on in this blog is another exhibit that was at the EXPO...."Threads of Resistance".<br />
Last year a group of fiber artists' (the Artist Circle Alliance) decided to put out a call of entry for a juried show after what was to many of us a disastrous result of the presidential election. Here are the opening words on their website to introduce what they were requesting from fellow artists to create.<br />
"<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;">We seek to address current issues including climate change, sexual assault, immigration, the refugee crisis, racism, and sexism. The art in this exhibition expresses a range of emotions from anger and sadness, to our our hope for positive change."</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> They received over 500 entries to their call, and over 60 were selected to travel around the United States. We were fortunate to be one of the places chosen for exhibition. You can see all of the exhibit, as well as the other 400 plus not in the traveling exhibit as well as information about the artists and, in their own words, what inspired them to create what they did by going to this<a href="http://threadsofresistance.org/traveling_exhibit.html"> link. </a> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> While some of the entries were very graphic and might be considered rather vulgar, most were not. I personally was not offended and applaud the talent and creativity of all the works. They wanted to make a strong statement of what they believe to be a crisis in our country...again, I agree. But because of the possibility that some of the works of art might be disturbing to some of the pubic and certainly not appropriate for children to see, the controversial works were set aside separately with signs that warned of the possibility of offending some one etc. thus warning the public to give everyone a fair chance to avoid being offended. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I happened to be in the cordoned area when three women came in and one was just outraged by what she was looking at! I just mentioned that was why they had the warning signs posted so that people who might be offended could choose not to see what was inside. Boy! Did I get blasted!! But that's OK, I have tough skin! Several times throughout the days I was there, I heard lots of complaining of the exhibit. Ah, RED TEXAS!! I spoke to a couple of the vendors, one from California and another from the East somewhere. They had been at two or three other shows in other areas of the country where the exhibit had been held, and this was the first time they heard any controversy at all!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> One lady came up to tell me that is was because of "that filth in that room"...that is what is the matter with our country!!! I didn't even try to explain to her what the works of art were trying to say...several graphic works about messing with women's reproductive parts, and several about "pussy grabbing", one portraying the president and Russia's president in a very close relationship. She just saw it all as pornography and couldn't see the real meaning of the art. (Again she was warned what was inside might be upsetting). Now, I have no problem with people not agreeing with me but the blind, bitter accusations were beyond just disagreeing! And I find very distressing! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Here are several works from the <a href="http://threadsofresistance.org/traveling_exhibit.html">"Thread of Resistance"</a> and I do encourage you to go to the link I have provided to see the rest of them and to hear what the artists have to say....some are heart breaking.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this was interesting...a quote from Teddy Roosevelt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was by a girl who attended the Women's March in her <br />
state and was afraid<br />
she would be the only one...this depicts what she found there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see what is written here...several times?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorites...such an impact on the immigration status.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was considered one of the controversial ones<br />
not sure why, it just shows how science is being<br />
destroyed by the current admin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Created by Judy Perez..one of my favorite fiber artists..<br />
also considered to be controversial.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And another controversial one...I love the simplicity<br />
of the message. The artist Sue Bleiweiss, is another of<br />
my favorites and one of the forces behind the<br />
call for resistance art quilts</td></tr>
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Again, more to see on the links I have provided...this is just a sample and some of my favorites!<br />
<br />Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-29178168429023159532018-05-14T13:12:00.000-05:002018-05-14T13:12:07.673-05:00It has been awhile! Busy! Busy! Busy!<div class="quoteText" style="line-height: 21px; padding: 0px 5px 10px 0px;">
<span style="color: blue;">“Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are?” </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px;">― </span></span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3237946.Bob_Talbert" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bob Talbert</a></div>
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I like the above quote...says it all...here I am blogging when there are a million and one things I should be doing! But in the "choices of what to do today", writing my in my blog is one of my choices. I have decided to suspend my "Memory Mondays" and concentrate more on my art. I was writing my memories more for my kids than anything and I will still do that but not as a blog.</div>
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So one of the reasons I have gotten busy is because of my involvment with SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) and I have had a few travels in the month of April that kept me from blogging. I have no excuse for March...no idea what kept me so busy! So here goes....a "catch up blog"!<br />
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<b>SAQA Conference "TEXtiles" in San Antonio:</b><br />
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<b> </b>My daughter Andrea and I went to SA the first week in April for the Annual Conference. Previous to that, I had volunteered to be one of three Reps for Texas Region. Within the state we have five "Circles" which are local meetings in different regions of the state. At the conference, I attended two days of meetings just for the reps from all over to get together, learning more about SAQA and about what our obligations as Reps are...met several great people from all over, other States, Canada, Central America, etc.<br />
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The conference was not all meetings...we had a lot of fun time too! We took a boat cruise one evening...really fun especially for those from other places who had never been to San Antonio!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many bridges on the River..I love SA!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Drury Hotel-where the conference was held..great location..<br />
right on the Riverwalk!</td></tr>
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The TEXtiles Conference was where my quilt of my last blog was on display at the hotel where we stayed. Here it is with a few others from Texas.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Century Plant"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend, Heather Pregger's quilt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quilt by Connie Marie Mahrion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And another friend, Deborah Boschert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another friend, Carolyn Skei</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quilt by Gay Young from the Caprock circle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A quilt by Debra Goley who will also appear in my next blog.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sherri McCauley, one of the other Texas Reps</td></tr>
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Then it was back to business! Here are a couple of pics from the General Assembly.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Listening to one of the programs..there were a little under 200 members present.<br />
Andrea, Rhonda and I are about in the center with our backs to the camera.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhonda and Andrea...really enjoying themselves!</td></tr>
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Other activities at the Conference were "Lightening Talks" whereby each speaker showed 20 slides with only 20 seconds per slide thus the name! Always a big hit and enjoyed by all. Andrea and I also gave a "Talk" but as we are not nearly as "professional" as many of the speakers, we decided to just tell of some of our jouneys together, art quilt related. We were the last to present so we decided to end with a humorous talk...it would either be a disaster or a hit! Fortunately everyone seemed to realize we were just having fun!!<br />
We also had some great programs to choose to go to as well as a terrific keynote speaker, <a href="https://www.janedunnewold.com/">Jane Dunnewold.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Dunnewold-Art quilter, teacher, and writer</td></tr>
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One afternoon we had some free time so Andrea, Rhonda, and I went to the Briscoe Western Art Museum and to lunch at the Iron Cactus...I had the best quesdillas ever!</div>
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My next blog....coming soon ...will be about our other April/May trip!</div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-17061068676165412702018-02-20T11:25:00.001-06:002018-02-20T11:25:42.004-06:00How It Was Done<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” </span></span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4379.Sylvia_Plath" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sylvia Plath</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"> Yesterday, I got </span><span style="color: #181818;">the</span><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> news that my latest art quilt, "Century Plant at Big Bend" was selected to be in the SAQA TEXtile Conference Show which will be in San Antonio the first week in April. This Call to Entry was for Texas members only as we are </span>hosting<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the International SAQA Conference in our state this year. I am very honored to be among many well-known artists to showcase our talents to the rest of SAQA attending. I have had several people ask how I made this particular work of art so I decided to do a blog on that very subject.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Century Plant at Big Bend"</td></tr>
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First, the inspiration...we were charged with the subject 'anything' Texas! So I went through all my photos of various places I had visited throughout the state and came up with a composite of several pics.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Then I got a piece of canvas and stretched it out on my table in my paint studio. I proceeded to paint a wash in the background with watery acrylic paints.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second phase</td></tr>
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I then added some grassy area with the start of some cactus and other plant life and the stalk of the century plant. When that was dry, I put the whole thing on a black batting and a back fabric to do some machine stitching in the sky area and the rocky background area.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Third step</td></tr>
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I put it all up on my design wall and began adding fabric to create more dimension to the grasses and plants by freeform cutting them and using fabric glue, just a dab, to hold them in place.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup-the little blooms are about dime size, or smaller</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup- after some further machine stitching on the grasses</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Workspace in my sewing studio</td></tr>
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So I had drawn out on paper the size of my stalk and then proceeded to hand cut my blooms<br />out of various batik fabrics of greens and yellows. And placed them around the paper stalk to see how many I might want to add. Then I decided to give them more texture by covering them with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuoCp0yf2_g">French knots </a>(you who sew or embroider will know what that is! For any one interested I have linked you to a Youtube Tutorial on how to make them!) I had fused each bloom to a felt background for added strength and proceeded to add the French knots. A great "sitting in front of the TV time"! LOTS of time to catch up on my recorded PBS shows and Netflix series I had fallen behind on!</div>
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After having finishing all the French knots, it was back upstairs to my paint studio to paint the edges of the blooms so the white felt wouldn't show.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up</td></tr>
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With the whole thing lying flat on my studio table, I first cut coordinating background fabric for each bloom and began to place them on the stalk, as well as adding fabric stems. These were all glued down to hold in place while stitching.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back to the Design Wall</td></tr>
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After checking out everything on the design wall...at this point I could still reposition the blooms, I took it back to my table and began hand stitching the blooms and stems to the stalk. I had thought I might be able to machine stitch them down but it all became a bit too heavy to manipulate at a the machine..thus hand stitching!<div>
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So from the above picture, you can see the French knots which are on approximately thirty blooms of various sizes. And how I hand-stitched each to the background. It was all so thick at times that I had to use one of my most elegant sewing tools, the pliers, to pull the thread through!<div>
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And almost the last thing to do! I trimmed all the edges of the batting and backing to 2 1/2 inches then pieced a border from the brown and green fabric I chose. At this point, I am using another "uncommon for sewing" piece of furniture for placing the border (it is not sewn down at this point)...my bed! I have a large cardboard graph which I can place on my bed and can then work all the way around it. After deciding where to place the border, I flip it over, pin it down and go to the machine to sew it together on the artwork.<div>
The last thing to do is to decided whether to put a binding on (which would show on the front) or to face it which, while finishing up the edges, will not show on the front. And to add sleeve on the back to hang it.</div>
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And.....that's all, folks!!!!</div>
Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-81001714908769171662018-02-12T08:00:00.000-06:002018-02-12T08:00:16.247-06:00Memory Monday<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“A planet with no mountains, no storms and no earthquakes will create a planet of weak people!” </span></span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3164882.Mehmet_Murat_ildan" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mehmet Murat ildan</a><br />
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It is March 27, 1964. We are happily living in Reno, Nevada; Dick is stationed at Stead Airforce Base and I am finishing up my second round of being a tele-communicator for the America Cancer Society. All over the airways is news of the disaster which has occurred in Alaska! A 9.2 force <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvl-4IWjHXo">earthquake </a>with its center in Prince William Sound half way between Anchorage and Valdez, has erupted; the largest in the United States and the second largest in the world. (I have linked you to a short youtube presentation if you are interested in seeing how this earthquake changed the scientific study of earthquakes.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An elementary school in Anchorage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downtown Anchorage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turnagain Heights-a housing area overlooking Knik Arm</td></tr>
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Amazingly, only 15 people were killed by the earthquake itself. It occurred around 5:30PM and it was Good Friday so many places were closed and school was not in session. There were 139 deaths total, many from the following Tsunami.</div>
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A few weeks after this disaster Dick comes home with some "exciting" news. He is being transferred to Elmendorf AFB. Guess where it is located! Yep...Anchorage, Alaska! Needless to say that announcement caused great consternation with both of our families. We, being young and naive, thought it sounded like a great adventure!</div>
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Dick was to report around the first of July I think, although he was still working at Stead. My little job was over at the end of April so I wouldn't be able to get another job for such a short time. As I had said earlier, we wouldn't be able to afford the apartment if I wasn't working too, so we made the decision I would go home to live with my parents until we took off for Alaska and Dick would go back to the barracks on base....not a happy solution for we newlyweds! But sometimes you have to just live with the negative side of life too!</div>
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So Dick took a week to drive me home and spend some time with his parents. Then he went back to Stead and I settled in for a loooong (six weeks) visit with my parents! I remember going to church with my mom one Sunday after Dick had gone back, and this elderly gentleman, whom I had known all my life but not intimately, came up to me and wanted to know if everything was alright in my life! It was just not normal for a newlywed to be separated six months after being married! So I explained to him why I was home (although I was thinking it was really none of his business and wanted to tell him some really wild tale) and he seemed to think that was OK! When I exploded to my mom about the nosey old man, she said he was probably just concerned and would have wanted to pray for me if there had been something wrong! Bless his heart! Ah, small towns.....you gotta love them!!!</div>
Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-53395055615688309942018-02-05T22:31:00.000-06:002018-02-05T22:31:23.698-06:00Memory Monday<br /><span style="color: blue;">"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. "</span><br /><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It is 1964; we have been married about six weeks; we are in our cozy little apartment in the middle of winter in Reno, Nevada. Such a beautiful winter! There is a fresh coating of snow on everything. Reno is in the Sierra Nevadas and the Truckee River runs right through town. We go walking at night, in the snow. There is a bridge over the Truckee not far from where we live. A special memory, standing on that bridge, watching the snow fall into the water which is really raging below us.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Truckee River-Reno, Nevada</td></tr>
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I had never cooked much before we were married but Dick was very encouraging as I practiced on him! Except for one time...I made a coconut pie which was one of his favorites. He tasted it and said it was pretty good but not quite as good as what his mom made! Well, to a newly wed, that was not the most tactful thing he could have said. I wasn't angry...but my response to him was..."I am very fond of your mom, but don't ever compare my cooking to hers!" And he never did again! She is a really good cook, but over the years, I became pretty good myself.<br /> It is February 9, 1964. Do you remember what happened that night? The Beatles were in America on the Ed Sullivan Show!! And we had our first party! Some of the guys from the base who worked with Dick at Shakey's and their girl friends/wives. <div>
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The first song they sang was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs">"I Want to Hold Your Hand"</a> . If you would like to get a taste of the show click on the song name which will take you to a youtube film of them and on the side you will see more links to more songs. We had a great time until the neighbors complained about the noise...and everyone had to go to work the next day, so the party broke up pretty early.<div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-82471195413347848372018-01-29T07:00:00.000-06:002018-01-29T07:00:23.391-06:00Memory Monday<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Exo, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: blue;">“Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.” </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exo, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: right;">-Fawn Weaver</strong></span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exo, sans-serif; text-align: right;"> </strong><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exo, sans-serif; text-align: right;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The wedding is over; the honeymoon is in the past; we are on our way back to Reno...January, 1964. We are loaded with wedding gifts...pictures, placemats, blankets. We decided to leave the crystal and silver at my parents' house. Then we have to find a place to live because Dick didn't have a high enough a rank to live on base. We found a nice little furnished </span></span>apartment..one bedroom and bath, a kitchen and living room combined. </span><br />
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Our unit was downstairs on the front. The entry door was under the stairs. The building had four units...two down and two up. It had been built in some guy's back yard...not many building codes at that time! It was small but relatively new and seemed pretty great to us for our first home together!<div>
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Right across the street was a appliance repair business. There was only one parking place at the apartment per car but we could park one of our cars in front of the business before they opened at 8:00 and after they closed at 5:00 M-Sat...Sundays they were closed so we could leave it there. Because Dick had to leave before I did, we parked the car he drove in front of the business.</div>
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My job at Penny's was no longer there...they weren't too happy with me leaving during the busiest time of the year. I was having a hard time finding anything and to be frank, in order to pay rent I HAD to have a job too...Dick's military salary wasn't great and he didn't qualify for off base housing allowance. I finally found a job with the Heart Association as a telecommunicator....one of those obnoxious people who call you up and plead for money. It was a six weeks' gig. We were literally living one day at a time!</div>
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I was soooo good at what I did that, after six weeks' was up, I was hired on by the Cancer Society to do the same thing! And for this, I went to college!!! We were living in the newly wed bubble though so all was good!!</div>
Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-83415018950181069672018-01-23T21:10:00.002-06:002018-01-23T21:10:27.777-06:00North Texas SAQA Meeting<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” </span></span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4750._mile_Zola" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Émile Zola</a><br />
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Last Saturday the North Texas SAQA Circle met in Grapevine at the Must Love Fabric shop. We had ten members there and had a very interesting meeting. The month before we had brainstormed ideas of things we could do at our monthly meetings. We came up with several ideas: techniques to demonstrate, how we each work and where our ideas come from etc. This week we all brought our sketchbooks/journals to share how we used them as a tool for our creativity. It was really interesting to see how varied and yet how similar our sketchbooks were. Some use theirs very frequently to get ideas started; others more casually and less often. I, myself, am a kind of off and on...but I do enjoy journaling when I do it!<br />
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Then we had our usual showing of what we had been working on which is always a favorite! Always inspiring!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah brought an abstract square she is working on and explained<br />how she worked with it and plans to continue </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah had taken a class from <a href="http://www.handsonhanddyes.com/about-us.htm">Cindy Lohbeck</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another example of Deborah's dyeing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen is working on some small art after taking a bit of a sabbatical..<br />Glad to have her back in the swing of things!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another small art by Jen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jackie showed a stunning work of art. Be sure to enlarge this so <br />you can appreciate her hand stitched circles. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jackie had also taken a recent class from <a href="http://www.suebenner.com/">Sue Benner</a>.<br />Taking a photograph and interpreting it into a fabric work of art.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea has also been bitten by the ice dyeing bug and<br />had several beautiful pieces to show us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane, a new member, had several small pieces to show us.<br />I think she will fit in quite well!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And another.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jaye showed her Century Plant which is finally finished!<br />You might be able to enlarge this to see the billions of French knots<br />which make up the blossoms.</td></tr>
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Our last bit of business for the meeting was to discuss what we are doing at our February meeting. We are going to be meeting at the same location and decorate our share of the tote bags that each Texas Circle is doing for the SAQA Conference hand outs. The conference is being held in San Antonio this year in April. Each of us is to bring paint, stamps, inks, brushes, stencils, whatever can be used to decorate the bags. It will be a fun meeting!</div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-64212099850486641962018-01-15T17:47:00.000-06:002018-01-15T17:47:23.145-06:00NTAQ January Meeting<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3253.Pablo_Picasso" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pablo Picasso</a><br />
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My NTAQ Art bunch met today...as always, a real boost to share our creativity with each other. Our challenge this month was a painting by Georges Braque "The Echo". It is an abstract picture with some definable objects. Our challenges are not necessarily to interpret the pictures exactly but to use the shapes and colors as inspirations to create something original. Here is the picture on my design wall with my work. It is not one of my favorites but since I rushed it together I guess it will do. I was working most of the day and night yesterday getting my "Century Plant" finished so I only spent from 10:00 to Midnight last night on the challenge!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Georges Braque/ Jaye</td></tr>
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And here are the ones done by the others:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bethany</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heather</td></tr>
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We had a couple people not able to be at the meeting....here is a picture of all the challenges together <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michelle's is upper left...I didn't get an individual pic of hers</td></tr>
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Then we had our "show and tell" of other works! Kay had really been busy since our last meeting.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kay says this was done "just for fun"!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kay added the circles after finishing the quilt, feeling it needed a little something more!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A small work Kay brought to get some suggestions on what to do with the background.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a sea turtle Kay did as a reminder of her recent trip to Hawaii</td></tr>
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Bethany had been busy doing some ice dyeing: </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bethany plans to leave this as a whole cloth quilt and add stitching</td></tr>
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Wendy had a most spectacular quilt to show....the backs of her quilts are alway as wonderful as the fronts!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front</td></tr>
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And I showed my Century Plant. I had originally planned on entering this in a show in South Texas named "Life on the Rio Grande". I didn't get it finished by the deadline...so I am now going to get it finished to enter in the SAQA Conference Texas Only SAQA members' show in April.</div>
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It is not quite finished....I need to quilt the borders and stitch down a few of the blooms that I haven't done yet. I also took several pictures on the process of this quilt as I did a few things that I had not done before and plan to write a blog on that. So I am not going into much detail on how I did this one.</div>
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And the meeting ended with lunch, conversation and lots of laughter, as always!</div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-5125970936372047312018-01-08T08:00:00.000-06:002018-01-08T08:00:37.270-06:00Memory Monday <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“I celebrate the connections in my life, from my past, present, and future. I joyfully accept love in all its healthy forms!” </span></span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5162049.Amy_Leigh_Mercree" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Amy Leigh Mercree</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> We are now back at Dick's parents' home. While we are there, all the neighbors throw us a shivaree. Now for those of you who are not familiar with the custom, shivarees were "celebrations" of marriage. Originally they could get pretty wild...usually a newly wed couple would be in their new home and the community would show up one night and mischievously wreck their home! Nothing malicious...all in good fun! The couple would expect this to happen so would have beer and snacks set aside for when the partiers would show up. Sometimes the bride would be "kidnapped" while the groom had to watch his domain being wrecked! Then all would get back together and help clean up and the party would begin. Crazy, I know! I wonder if they still do that anywhere?</span><br />
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Because we were not living in the area, what we got was just the party! It would not have been appropriate to wreck his parents' house! It was a nice party, a chance for me to meet all the neighbors. And their tradition was to give the couple a "money" tree. Bills had been collected and some creative person would make flowers or something out of the money and place them on a branch....a much nicer tradition than what I was used to!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Dick and Jay after the shivaree with money tree</td></tr>
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This picture was taken in Dick's parents living room...that is a window behind me, showing off the beautiful farm land that surrounded them. Right down the road were his paternal grandparents and just a few miles away, his maternal grandmother...all of whom were at our wedding. His brother and little sister Janice are still living at home. Fay is nineteen and farming with his dad; Janice who is 14 years younger than Dick and in total awe of him, is eight.<br />
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This is a picture of Dick's mom and dad celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary August 14, the summer before we got married. We were in Reno at the time so not able to attend. Brother Fay 18 and sister Janice 7, in the background. Again, a community party held in the church hall.<div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-59941923246976797862018-01-01T13:21:00.002-06:002018-01-01T13:27:26.448-06:00Memory Monday <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> How appropriate that today, a Monday, is the first day of the New Year! I am returning to my Memory Monday blogs and I love "fresh starts"....a new day, a new week, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a new year</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">! And also appropriate is that this memory is also about New Year's eve!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So here we are, back in Pittsfield after our brief honeymoon in St. Louis. It is December 31, and we are going to yet another Dance Club party at the American Legion....there will be much drinking and eating and general chaos! My sister and her family are still at Mom and Dad's...totally, there are 12 of us sleeping there. My cousins who don't party with my parents stay home with Judy's babies...Doug 2 and David 20 days old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Looking back, I am sure this whole "everyone together" was a little foreign to Dick who although had a large family of aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents...more than mine...but they all lived close enough to go home in the evenings! I do remember at one point while we were all there, all we girls were in another room doing something, baby David began to cry, but then got quiet. Judy went to check on him and came back just astonished! He had been on his back and was now on his stomach! He had rolled over at 20 days old! It is a miracle! Then Dick quietly (he was a quiet person), said "Oh, I hope it was alright. He was fussing and I had seen others turn him over which seem to quiet him, so I just did that too!" Well, you can imagine! All my female relatives just thought that was the bravest, smartest thing a man could do! From that moment on, Dick could do no wrong in their eyes! You have to realize, men had very little to do with babies back then so for him to even think about what to do was amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So that evening we all dress up and head to the American Legion; after the dance we went to a house party of some friends of Mom and Dad. Now we are going home and are all feeling no pain at this point. I remember as we six (mom, dad, Judy, my BIL, Dick and I) all pile into Dad's car, Dad driving, he begins to back out to the driveway, swerving backwards while gunning it. Dick looks back and hollers...Dad brakes and we stop just inches away from a large tree! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> When we get back to the house, my poor sister who was just 20 days away from having a baby and who had probably not had an alcoholic beverage since her own wedding, became very ill! While Dad who is pretty bombed himself, takes care of her, Mom and I are taking care of baby David....he needs a bottle...and we rock him. The strangest thing about having been drinking and rocking....one gets very dizzy! So when one of us got dizzy, the other would take over! We took turns until he finally fell asleep! Tough kid! He survived!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Then, before we headed to our new home in Reno, Nevada, we go to Dick's parents to spend a few days with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-49041786996527874892017-12-30T17:51:00.000-06:002017-12-30T17:51:09.866-06:00Last Blog for 2017<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” </span></span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/58.Frank_Herbert" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Frank Herbert</a><br />
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I haven't blogged for the whole month of December, so for my final blog of the year, I am going to combine LOTS of topics!<br />
Early December, Andrea and I flew to Portland, Oregon to attend a wedding of Dick's brother's granddaughter...or my great niece! We planned to be there a bit longer to see something to the area. On our first day, we did a personal walking tour....and went to the Portland Museum of Art. One of the exhibits that was going on was a retrospect of Three Wyeths, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie!<br />
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Then we walked to<a href="http://www.powells.com/"> Powell's Bookstore.</a>...advertising to be the largest Independent new and used bookstore in the World! And I can believe it! It takes up a whole city block and contains over 68,000 square feet of retail floor space....several stories high... nine-color coded rooms and over 3,500 different sections. Needless to say, we did not see the whole store!<div>
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That afternoon, my SIL Janice flew in for the wedding from Belton, Missouri and had planned to stay at the same hotel where we were. She texted me when she got in and, coincidentally, she was in the room right next door to us! We had read about a craft fair down by the river that evening in a big warehouse, so we ordered a Lyft and took off. <div>
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Food trucks are a big item in Portland....we saw them near Powell's when we were there, but it was too cold for us to partake in outdoor eating....but this evening, there were several set up behind the building with many of those outdoor heaters. We ate our dinner standing up huddled under a heater, then went in to join the crowds! None of us are too fond of crowds so we stayed about an hour then called another Lyft to go back to the hotel...to the bar for a hot toddy!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The next morning, we had scheduled a city tour for the morning. The wedding was to be at 3:00 so we had plenty of time to check out Portland! It was a good tour, although, again...chilly and damp! But that did not "dampen" our spirits! One of our stops was a Japanese Garden which was very lovely...then a stop along the river, the Wilamette...and then a tour of one of the best known homes in the area, the<a href="http://pittockmansion.org/"> Pittock Mansion</a>. It is now a part of the Historical Society of Portland and one of their moneymakers to go towards the up keep, is to rent various rooms at Christmas to different groups to decorate according to their interests. Then, of course there are the fees for visitors...but it was a beautiful place...and again, very popular!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea, Jay, and Jan with Portland on the Wilamette in the background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pittock Mansion overlooking the city</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The staircase at the Pittock..it split at the landing and went to the left also.</td></tr>
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We returned to the hotel to shower and dress for the wedding. It was a lovely affair; the venue was a unique location...I don't know what the building had been originally but the huge room, which the family had transformed into fantasy, was just perfect for this couple. After a very short service, the entire attendees, approximately 300, I think I was told, were served fun buffet dinner of the couples' choice...tacos and all the traditional sides!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister of the Bride-Emily/ Mother of the Bride- Cathy (my niece)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jay and Andrea having a great time at the wedding!</td></tr>
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Dick's brother, Fay, took all of us back to our hotel. Jan was flying home the next day, so we made a plan to meet at the airport for a brunch before she had to leave. Cathy who lives in Portland, picked us up and for a least a short time, we all got together...all 13 of us minus the bride and groom. After we saw Jan off, we went back to Cathy's house to visit for awhile then the suggestion was made to go see <a href="http://www.oregon.com/attractions/multnomah_falls">Multnomah</a> Falls, just outside Portland along the Columbia Gorge. What a site! 611 feet of cascading icy water!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multmomah Falls</td></tr>
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Then Andrea and I were taken back to our hotel. All of the family were heading back home on Monday; we had planned to stay another day and had scheduled an all day tour along the Oregon coast.</div>
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That Monday, we woke up to sunshine for the first time we since we had come! Although it was still pretty cool, it was good to have sunshine while we toured because we did a lot of getting in and out! The coast is beautiful; we did a lot of walking /hiking at various stops. At one stop we were really in the forest primeval! There was a steep path leading down to the beach which I only tried part way. On the path, there were many surfers in their winter wet suits heading down. Brrrr! I headed back to the top to wait for the others!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pacific Coast, Oregon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rock formation at certain locations along the coast</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A temperate rainforest with fantastic mossed covered trees.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a sign we see in Texas!</td></tr>
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The next day, Tuesday, we had an early flight out and got back to the DFW area before noon. Great trip; beautiful wedding; got to see lots of relatives and lots of fabulous scenery!!</div>
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The rest of the month of December was spent with my art groups, working with my art, and celebrating Christmas. My first art meeting was the North Texas SAQA at which we all brought goodies to celebrate the holidays. We discussed what we want to do next year and then our fab show and tell!!</div>
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And my North Texas Art Quilters (NTAQ) met at my house...again plans for next year and another fabulous show and tell...</div>
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And then we went to lunch at a new restaurant, Rise, in the Shops of Clearfork area. It is a souffle eatery, very yummy...the best French Onion soup I think I have ever had!<div>
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Another nice surprise...a couple friends took me to Dallas for a belated birthday dinner...a new place for me.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Andrea and Leo came over on the Saturday before Christmas. Sunday we went to see "An Act of God" at Stagewest where we also had dinner.</div>
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We had a nice quiet Christmas Day...Marti and her family had decided to go on a Caribbean Cruise over the holidays; they all like to do physical stuff...snorkel, zipline, etc. which Andrea and I are not that crazy about so we opted to stay home, saving our money for a trip next spring to Colorado. I can say I had a Wonder Woman Christmas....my personal hero since childhood!<div>
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Then on the 29th, Dick and I would be celebrating our 54 anniversary if he were still with me. As it was, I had decided to go out to the National Cemetery where he is interred in part. I say in part, because I am still dispersing ashes when I go on trips where he would have gone too. Andrea offered to go with me so I met her for lunch and we drove over there....very nice surprise...I did not know that Christmas wreathes were placed at each and every tombstone and along the columbarium.<div>
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Nor did I know that there is an organization where one can donate and/or volunteer to lay the wreathes known as <a href="http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/">Wreathes Across America.</a> I will get involved in it next year. They may be the ones responsible for other times of decorating the cemeteries...I'll have to check it out!</div>
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So in drawing this lengthy blog to an end, I wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year with this card I stole off Facebook, posted by a fellow Unitarian Universalist!</div>
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Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-31360787772197152572017-11-28T07:00:00.000-06:002017-11-28T07:00:20.753-06:00Busy Week and Lots of Good Family Time<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1438.Walt_Whitman" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Walt Whitman</a><br />
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Tuesday, November 15-Book Club at the Villas. The book reviewed was "The Law of Gravity" by Liz Rosenberg. A good read about the legalities of a promise...dealing with family and health issues. It made for a very lively discussion!<br />
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Wednesday, November 15 was my turn to have dinner for the Awesome Foursome... a couple years ago four of us living here who are all single gals, decided to start a little dinner club and once a month we meet and eat at each others' homes....except for one who doesn't like to cook, but she takes us out so that is OK! I usually experiment on them with new recipes. I had wanted to make a ham loaf which I had not done in years and because I had a new attachment on my mixer to grind stuff that I wanted to try out, that is what I made.<br />
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Thursday, November 16 I attended an all day workshop with Debby Maddy on dyeing with Indigo and creating shibori fabric. Great fun! And I learned a lot although I don't have anything to show yet because I am sooooo slow in anything I do!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vat of indigo dye used to make the shibori and other indigo dyed fabric</td></tr>
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I love the look and did get one of the kits so I can make my own indigo at home...need to find a slinky! Anyone know where I can get one?</div>
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Saturday, November 18 was my birthday and my granddaughter Kathleen had just gotten home from school for Thanksgiving vacation. So she and her mom and dad took me out for dinner that night. My choice...Italian!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kathleen, Me, Marti and Graham</td></tr>
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We took a picture back at my house when we got back. Marti had also brought a variety of "Nothing But Bundt" mini cakes for dessert. YUM!<br />
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Monday, November 20 my buddy Debby came up from Glen Rose to take me to lunch. We spent the day catching up as we hadn't seen each other for awhile. I drove all around to show her some of the new things being built around. Neiman Marcus has opened up their new store in an area called the Shops at Clearfork....a very upscale shopping area not too many miles from me. Then we drove up to the Montgomery Plaza area which she had not seen and ate at Gloria's... a Mexican restaurant that advertises "with a Latin flair"!</div>
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Tuesday and Wednesday, I spent most of the time getting ready for Thanksgiving. Andrea came over on Wednesday to help. Then Thursday, November 23 was Turkey Day! I hadn't had Thanksgiving for the family since I had moved into my condo. We used to host it every year when we had a larger place. But this year those able to come were at a manageable number of eight and since my kitchen remodel adding more counter space was finished, I wanted to host again! I had a great time...as I hope every one else did! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All my peeps...Kathleen, Colin, Graham<br />
Andrea, me and Marti</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob and Eddy Lou...Graham's parents</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Grands...Kathleen and Colin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea-my sous chef and all around helper!</td></tr>
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After eating, we all went over to Bob and Eddy Lou's to finish out the day with football, more eating and games! Graham's sister Angela and her husband Brant were also there after eating with his family...switching off every other year. Marti had brought her iPad to show them a video she and her team of teachers had made while learning to use some new equipment....very funny!!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brant, Marti, Angela and Graham standing</td></tr>
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On Friday, November 24, I had gotten tickets to see the film "Loving Vincent" at the Modern Museum in Fort Worth for Andrea and me. We spent Black Friday at home dyeing fabric, trying some new techniques we had both learned from various classes, then after a quick midday meal, we got cleaned up and went in to see the movie.<br />
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It was just fabulous! Really well done! It is an hour and a half, animated character using these portraits as well as many familiar landscapes and scenes from Van Gogh's paintings. It is difficult to explain just how they make it...it does have story line which takes place about a year after his death. A few years ago, a couple guys came up with a theory that he did not commit suicide, but was shot either accidentally or on purpose. This film runs with that idea which is quite compelling.<br />
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And while at the Modern, we got to see it all lit up for Christmas!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking in from one of the patio areas</td></tr>
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Saturday, November 25, Andrea headed on home about midmorning and I had one more meal with the Ayers...a last chance to see the Grands before they headed back to school on Sunday!<br />
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I hope all of you reading this had as a great a week as I did....Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!</div>
Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-74203584211044087712017-11-26T22:09:00.000-06:002017-11-26T22:13:20.323-06:00Memory Monday - Wedding (Part II)...and the honeymoon!<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">“A wedding is an event, but marriage is a life.” </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/88114.Myles_Munroe" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Myles Munroe</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span id="quote_book_link_177403" style="color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The day has come...it is a sunny but cold day in December/Illinois. The wedding is taking place at half past the hour of three.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dad and I, getting ready to go down the aisle.</td></tr>
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My dad who is usually a very jovial guy has a very serious look on his face..and funny thing, my sister got married about four years before I did and there is a picture of dad with Judy with the very same expression on his face!<br />
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Our wedding party consisted of my sister as matron of honor and a junior bridesmaid. Nancy was a daughter of good friends of my parents I had know all my life. Most of my girl friends were already married or had moved away....and I really didn't want a huge wedding. I had too many bridesmaids dresses that never got worn again and I didn't want to inflict that on my friends! Dick's brother, Fay, was his best man and my brother was a groomsman. So we did the vows' thing...and exchanged rings (already tried on in the snow covered Rockies!).</div>
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All of our album wedding pictures are in black and white..1963 style.. the one of Dad and me is color as are a couple others...probably taken by one of my cousins. Anyway...on to the reception, held at the Old Orchard Country Club. We had the traditional toast, cutting of cake, etc....no band or extras of any kind....just not done back then, at least not in Pittsfield.<br />
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Pictured above from the left...Dick's dad, my mom, Dick, me, Dick's brother Fay and my sister Judy.<br />
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Then we, the newly weds, left the reception to go back to my mom and dad's so I could take off my wedding dress and get into my going away attire. Another tradition was for the bride to change from her wedding dress to a nice outfit to drive away.</div>
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One little deviation from the norm was the driver of our "getaway" car...it was my mom! Usually it is the best man or one of the groomsmen, but as we were going back to my home, my mom wanted one last goodbye! And to get a picture of us on our way out!<br />
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Honeymoons were not quite as flamboyant as they are today. We went to St. Louis, Missouri for a couple of days....no reservations or particular plans! It was probably around 9:00PM when we got away. St. Louis is about 1 1/2 hours from Pittsfield. We were pretty tired from our night before and all the tension of the wedding so we just checked into a motel as soon as we got near St.L.<br />
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The next day we enjoyed some touristy things in the city...it was December 30th so all the Christmas stuff was still up...then that night we had a nice dinner and went to a movie. It was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056907/">"The Cardinal"</a> an Otto Preminger film with Tom Tyron. It was a big film in 1963....it brought out many controversial topics about the Catholic Church at a time when the church was going through some questionable dealings itself. I've linked you to IMDb info on it if you are interested.</div>
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On December 31st, we returned to Pittsfield, to my parents, to spend New Year's Eve with my family and another big party at the American Legion!Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03472447864230532058noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390985057899928115.post-53629182228504775602017-11-20T17:40:00.000-06:002017-11-26T20:37:57.504-06:00Memory Monday...The Wedding! (Part I)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: blue;">“In Marriage You Learn To Give Up The "Me ness for We ness!” </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/903655.DeBorrah_K_Ogans" style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DeBorrah K. Ogans</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We made it to our respective homes...it is also Christmas, my mother's crowning season! And now, on top of that, she has a wedding to get through and a new grandson. My sister, Judy, who is to be my matron of honor just gave birth on December 10th to her second son, David. My sister and family did not live in Pittsfield so they, as well as my three cousins (who were older than we were...really closer to mom in age), I and Dagmar were all staying at Mom and Dad's along with my younger brother, Jack who was 13-14. Mom would not think of putting any family up at a local motel! And Dick showed up on the 28th, after Christmas. He did stay in a motel as did his brother who was to be his best man. His brother, Fay, had brought his girlfriend, Sarah with him. I think Sarah may have still been in high school. It would not do for her to stay in a motel so we had made arrangements for her to stay at a friend's house.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">There had been quite a few deliveries to the house of wedding gifts. It was the custom then to spread gifts out for all to see...does that still exist today, I wonder? Here I am at the front door collecting some to the gifts being delivered. Brides-to-be did register at the local jewelry store who would stock up on the chosen silver ware pattern, crystal glass ware and china pattern so all anyone had to do was to go in, pay for what they wanted to send and it would be wrapped and delivered. </span><br />
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My parents loved to party and were charter members of the Dance Club started many years ago when I was little. About four or five times a year Dance Club would hold a big shindig with live orchestra and all! It was a kind of rite of passage to get old enough to be able to attend DC as a guest! The night before our wedding, there was a big Christmas dance held at the Legion Hall. We all went...my cousins who didn't partake in such festivities stayed home to babysit my nephews. After the dance different age groups would head out to another party...one of my friends had invited Dick and me out to her parents' house while the parents went to another house. I think Judy and her husband Jim may have gone back to my parents' house as she had just given birth to a baby not three weeks earlier.<br />
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I was twenty-three; had been out of college for a year; had worked for a year teaching; owned my own car...I was an adult!! But around one or two AM, my mom calls out to Shulman's where we were partying, to tell me I should come home!!! I needed my rest....after all....I was getting married the next day!! A couple of Dick's friends from college were also there...one was to be a groomsman and the other, just came along for the ride! </div>
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I was furious with my mom....she and I were really very close and very much alike but we did tend to clash occasionally! Deep down I knew she was right, so Dick took me home and probably went ahead and partied without me!! The next morning my mom serves me breakfast in bed!!! My last meal as a single girl!! Doug was my constant companion so he crawled up on the bed to help me eat! </div>
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I have very little memory of the next few hours. We were to get married at half past the hour of three!<br />
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Again, my mom..who was an avid reader and lover of words and phrases...was very taken by using the "half past the hour" in stating the time on the invitation. She had seen it in a book somewhere! Several days later, Dick made a comment to the me that he wished we had the time earlier because all his family...mom, dad, little sister, Janice, two grandmothers and a grandad would have to drive back home late and in the dark. Remember, they are in Missouri, across the Mighty Mississippi and about three and a half hours away. I wish he had said something much earlier, but then we might not have known as mom kind of did it all while I was working away in Reno! </div>
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