What to do

When you could or should be doing something else: make a duvet-cover (ok for my down comforter).

Luckily I had a king-size sateen sheet at the ready, in my stash lol!

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Saturday strangenesses

After a long, odd day at work, I duck into JC Pennys because I had a $15 off coupon if I purchased $15 of stuff – perfect for adding a couple new long sleeved shirts for autumn/winter. I pick out my shirts, look at a couple sweaters (I really want a plain black cardigan but the ones they had were too long). I go to the register and show my coupon and the nice lady says: “well you can use this, but it starts tomorrow. Would you like to put these on hold until tomorrow?” What a nice way to say: no you can’t use it today, but how about tomorrow. All this while I admitted I’d been in the mall so long I apparently didn’t know what day it is, LOL. So tomorrow I’ll get my shirts and I won’t have to shop for them, only pay for them.

I came home and found my little Molly, doing her nightly little Molly thing. When she hears me come in the driveway, she comes to the front door and lays by the door with all her feet against the bottom of the door. She’s not awfully big, but it still feels like something is blocking the door when I push it open. And if I peek around the door, there she is, looking up at me and trying hard not to let the door be opened as I push her and the door open. She does this every night. I don’t know why she would have done this the first time or why she does it every night. Most cats would come up and rub around your ankles. She chooses to play this little game of “keep the door closed” or “push the cat around with a door.” Most cats would run away once the door started to open and push them. I have no explanation. She’s definitely her own cat.

That’s all from this corner. No additional news on the new quilt project front. In fact, a rather deafening silence about the whole thing from the SAQA community – no one else seems to be admitting that they were chosen or not. All falls into today’s overall strangeness so I’ll leave it at that, LOL.

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Nice email to go to sleep by

Dear Mary Beth,
Congratulations! We’re very pleased to inform you that you are one of 38 artists selected, from the 147 who submitted 588 images for consideration, to create a work of quilt art for the SAQA special exhibition Seasonal Palette. The exhibition will première at International Quilt Festival Houston November 1-4, 2012, preview October 31, 2012.

Seasonal assignment to follow. Guess you know what you’ll be hearing about over the coming year lol.

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And then? And other questions…

there are the days when you don’t understand what happened with a simple question you asked. Did I really ask something else? ask the wrong person(s)? lose my mind?

Should I move to montana and go into witness protection? Will they let me choose a first name I’ve always wanted to use if I ask nicely?

And what about all the other stuff that I don’t get at all and can’t even figure out why I have to worry about it, let alone who I might express my concern to… Again, Montana beckons.

Really shouldn’t be this hard and I’m not at all a shy sort of person when it comes to this stuff.

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Time for your ideas

I’m about landed on a title for this new quilt, but before I print the label, QR Code and all, I’m curious what you would call this quilt:

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