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Showing posts with label VidCast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VidCast. Show all posts

Monday, December 10, 2012

Organizing Stinks... like roses!

Before I get in to the real post, I have to share a video.  Here is Bonnie McCaffery's Vidcast from Houston (IQA Festival).  Not only do you get to see a bunch of fantastically wonderful quilts, you get enjoy where Bonnie talks with some amazing artists -- me being one of them!  Watch, enjoy, and share!  Hey, I think I just called myself amazing... hmm, I kinda' like that!


Okay.  Now back to the actual post.  I've shared before that I am a borderline hoarder when it comes to papers, tiny little fabric scraps, stuff in general -- okay, just a borderline hoarder!  Yes, it's bad, but admitting something is always the first step right?  And yes, hoarding is an actual disorder -- I know this, I've got a few of them!  BUT... but, something wonderful has happened to make it necessary for me to organize a giant part of my life -- my studio.  And, the rough part?  In order to organize my studio I also must organize my office/sewing room.  Haha... not sure where the /sewing room part fits into that; I haven't sewn in there in years.  Probably because of the mess -- and no, I will not share the mess photos.  I love sharing but there comes a point when I need to control my anxiety.  You see, part of my hoarding issue is due to the fact that I suffer severe anxiety when *trying* to organize, file, clean, etc.  So, this was a BIG step for me.  It has taken me a little over two weeks, and a lot (and I mean a lot) of help from one of my besties!  She will never know how important all of her help was, she could see the anxiety building and would help to divert my mind to something else.  Thank you Nancy, I love you!  Oh, and she also got first dibs on just about everything in the studio that wasn't staying - that probably helped too!

So here are a couple of peeks into my newly organized world:

Here we have the *clean* office/sewing room -- and into that great open space goes the shelves of quilts:

Look what Nancy found hiding under 85 pounds of batting scraps:

And, of course, I had to make some cute curtains for the french doors, right?

Why do I need curtains you ask?  Because without them I would stare at the pool all day!

A super clean cutting table -- this table is great, but it is getting cut into two smaller pieces.  WHAT, you ask... no worries, it has been buried with so much stuff for so long that I haven't used it and I'm not going to miss it anyway.

Look -- you can actually see my legs!

The the view from behind the Gammill:

The the view from the other side of the room:

The the entire room (yes that messy area there in front of the Gammill, that still needs to be organized and put away.  And in that mess is a bunch more ribbons that need to be hung on the wall.

Soooo.... I still can't share WHY all this is happening.  I'll be able to soon and then you'll all be as excited as I am, well at least I hope you'll all be excited.  But seriously, I'm excited enough for us all!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

More NQR super coolness...

I've already filled you in on the super cool VidCast that Bonnie McCaffery filmed of my art group.  That was one of the two more things I need to share are few posts back, and here is the other cool tidbit I was waiting for...

I follow Dear Photograph.  If you don't, you should, they have a website, they tweet, they facebook -- check them out, follow them, stalk them quietly (you know lurking, in the good way), but make sure you visit them somehow!



So back in May Dear Photograph turned 1 year old.  Yeah!  In celebration of this they were having a trivia contest asking a new question for each of five days and giving away copies of their book.  Guess what, on Day One I answered and won.  Super cool... super fun... and I was absolutely thrilled that I won. Well, guess what UPS brought on Friday... yep, you guessed, the book!


The photos in this book are amazing, they give me chills.  The only thing I can explain is that almost every picture is like a mini time warp where two pieces of time are brought together all at once - see makes the little hairs on my neck stand up and gives me the idgies (little sparks of energy that run up and down your spine - or at least mine).  Even though I have been looking through the book all weekend, I have yet to sit down and read page by page.  So far I've only flipped through as it is like an emotional overload -- some of the pictures bring tears to my eyes, others make me laugh, and some even spark memories of my own childhood.  I am in awe of this book, along with all of their facebook posts - I look forward to them!  And, just so you all know, I'm working on pulling out old photos for my own "dear photographs"...

And, yet another NQR post.  Well, if I didn't keep posting "other" things, you would never get to know the real me, beyond the quilty part -- sorry to say, but there is a lot to ME, maybe one day you'll meet all of it - LOL.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Journeys Thru Art *NEWS*

I think you all know I belong to an art group - Journeys Thru Art.  And what a great group we are!  You remember back in February when I told you all about the class with Bonnie McCaffery and the dinner and the vidcast... no, then you can read up on it here.

Here's the great part, the VidCast is done and edited and is up on Bonnie's website, along with a bunch of other amazing vids.  Please take the time and check her site out, loads of amazing fun things.

Here we are, Journeys Thru Art, with our door challenges, along with some of our other quilts:


Check out these previous posts on our doors along with posts about my door quilt's process (they are from the other blog):
http://creativelongarmquilting.blogspot.com/2011/11/world-quilt-show-florida-iii.html
http://creativelongarmquilting.blogspot.com/2011/09/omg-she-types.html
http://creativelongarmquilting.blogspot.com/2011/08/door-challenge-update.html
http://creativelongarmquilting.blogspot.com/2011/06/door-challenge-update.html