I love these weeks where Monday and Tuesday are fathomless days, no end in sight, and then all of a sudden, it’s Friday. Like what happened there? I guess I appreciate it? I’m just not sure about the concept of time. Still. After how many years? Ha! Years. Time. So it is Friday and this weekend is kind of a shitshow and I’m not sure when I’ll grade the things I’ve been carrying around to grade. They require a quiet space and brainpower, and I seem to be lacking those together. I get a quiet space some evenings and brainpower some mornings (not yesterday morning), but they’re hard to get together. Hence I haven’t been able to get much art done either, even though what I’m doing now is mostly brainless. Picking a color to stitch with is maybe the most thinking I’m doing…
I finished the quilting on all of the bugs…
And then did the edge stitching on the ladybug…which is spoken for, just FYI. So is the Staghorn to its right (the pink and green bug). The other three will be available with the others I have on Etsy. When I finish them.
I didn’t get anything done on them last night because I came home to grade stuff and got buried in school minutiae AGAIN, and then went to a stitching meeting, where I worked on this guy…
From Sue Spargo’s Critter and Clover block of the month. To his credit, it was relaxing, and I love how the spots look like eyeballs. The Man texted about food when I was gone and he was dealing with it, but the food didn’t arrive (they apparently delivered to our neighbor…claimed our phone was disconnected…interestingly, because HIS phone was disconnected…the driver, not the neighbor). ANYWAY. We got food around 10. And I went and looked at one of the things that was school related and decided I did not want to remake the wheel, so I’m sticking with what we’re doing today.
Will I bug tonight? Maybe. I’ve got dinner planned with my brother, but notionally, I could stitch in circles (squares actually) around some more bugs. Tomorrow is picking up quilts from a show and going to an art meeting, plus hopefully grading those things. Sunday is more of the same type of stuff, but school stuff instead of art. Just a lot of running around. Hard to get art done when you’re running around.
Here’s photos from Patty Kennedy-Zafred, the juror of the No Boundaries exhibit at the Virginia Quilt Museum (yes, I still have work there!).
From left to right, Suzan Ann Morgan, then mine, Jill Kerttula, Deborah Boschert, Mary Beth Bellah, and Ann Marie Miller.
Mine, Jill Kerttula, Deborah Boschert, and Mary Beth Bellah (the sculpture in the front).
The small one on the left is Eileen Woods, then Suzan Ann Morgan, mine, and Jill Kerttula.
Nice exhibit. There’s more of course…check out the museum online. I missed this opening after spending the entire previous weekend at the museum. It’s a long way for me, y’all. But maybe not as far as the Moon. I’m hoping they splash down safely off the coast of San Diego today…we won’t be able to see it, but we might hear a sonic boom, they tell us.
My stitching meetings are all about books, weirdly. I’m in though.
This is all about my dog.
The Man is frustrated with the barking but is going about it all wrong. All Simba needs is the boychild or the girlchild (or not to be alone all day…poor anxious guy is trying to protect us). I get it, Simba. We’re sorry. Have some cold pizza that was left on our neighbors’ doorstep. Not really. His poor tummy would not abide.
OK. School. Still teaching natural selection. Sex ed starts Monday. Stupid stupid stupid. Thanks to the school board and the state for that shit. My classroom is a disaster and I’m hoping to get more of that under control…I sorted and delivered a bunch of shit yesterday (the sex ed packets were a mess), so that helps. I spent 10 minutes trying to find two bags of luminescent stars and UV flashlights. Why? Because I have more that need to go in the bags, but I can’t find the fucking bags. March self did something very logical with them and April self does not remember. Then ceramics after afterschool duty. I’m supposed to meet with a kid, but it’s really just to tell him no in person instead of via email, but I can only meet before school and he rarely shows up before 2nd period. Amusing. Not my problem. Squirrel! On the fence. Watching it run. We have squirrels now. Then out to dinner with the bro. Then hopefully bugs. It’s been a long weird overwhelming week. I’m good with it ending gently today…please let it end gently. I’ll allow the sonic boom…but the rest just needs to be soft and cuddly.
Kathy Nida 