It was a productive Monday, I did my laundry from the week away, and started to “find” my house. All of the members of my family are quite comfortable in their clutter, sadly I’m completely opposite, I find I can’t concentrate when there is clutter everywhere, and I can usually keep the clutter monster at bay while I’m home on a daily basis, but when I leave for a trip, the clutter monster comes out from hiding and well, lets just say I always expect to spend a couple days “finding” my house, once I return.
I got all the banking done, made a deposit, did my bookkeeping, and got all the bills in order to be paid. I dusted the upstairs, and tidied the kitchen. I stayed busy, answering emails, updating my website, and I proofed my article for Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot on the Challenge project from 2008. Look for that in the next issue.
Look what’s cooking on the floor in the corner of my studio. I grabbed a handful of fleece from the garage, and stuffed it into the crock pot this morning, threw in some water and sprinkled in some Cushing dye, a burgandy color, it was the first color I pulled out when I reached into the box. I poured in some white vinegar, and turned the crock pot on to ‘low’. It cooked all day, and I turned the pot off this evening. I’ll look at it tomorrow morning, and rinse the wool before I head into NYC to catch some fiber shows with my daughter.
I had a number of conference attendees tell me how much my gallery talk at the Small Expressions Exhibit meant to them, and others tell me they were so disappointed to have missed it. Since I had actually written up the talk and put it onto PowerPoint and emailed it ahead in case I didn’t arrive in time last Wednesday night to actually give the talk in person, I decided to just convert the whole file to a PDF, and post it in the “extras” section of my website. The gallery talk was titled “Parallel Threads that Parallel Life“. Anyway, enjoy the presentation, mostly I’m known for my garments, but there is an artist in there, who has something to say, and I really appreciated all those who listened to my talk and said such kind and supportive things to me afterwards.
I’m off to NYC tomorrow, and I’ll report back tomorrow night with some more fiber overload!