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The dish on Project Runway

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Hello! I remembered at 10:34 that it was on, so quickly flipped to Bravo, found it repeated at 2am, and taped it, but not before watching the ending …then watched the whole thing today.

I thought Nick’s dress the better of the two (his and Santino’s)…given Nicky Hilton’s comments during the review, I couldn’t figure out how Santino won…. guess it’s that Heidi Klum as Executive producer thing?

And I couldn’t figure out why they all loved Chloe’s dress…usually I love her work, but the halter top thingies that served as the bodice were just limp—sagged like sails without a breeze in them. I thought the top of the dress just didn’t fit, and didn’t look very good…..the bottom was good, and fabric selection and color good, but that deflated front was distracting!

Anyway, during the part when the contestants were all flouting their garments and personalities for Nicky, I kept thinking how vapid and irrelevant are these people anyway? Sheesh….they are vain, clueless twits! Of course, so is most of fashion, so I guess I was just being me again LOL… like when I was thinking about the home dec sewing I did for that million dollar *guest house* when I lived on San Juan island–the cost of either the guest house or garage could have paid to build 8 or 10 Habitat for Humanity houses for real working people……

I get on these rants occasionally, if you hadn’t noticed ….toodles, Sarah

Illustrated Letters

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Somewhere in the blog ring a while back, I found a post that led me to Danny Gregory, so like a dolt (or maybe not so dolt-ish), I signed up to receive notices when he updated his site, which combines writing and illustration / art. Today he sent this link:

http://www.dannygregory.com/2006/01/the_magic_mailb.php
to a project he initiated to have people send him illustrated
letters….they are posted online at:
http://www.dannygregory.com/Images/illustratedletters_web/illustratedletterspages/TalaPhoto0000.htm
or http://tinyurl.com/7lg6h

It is good browsing and some inspiration…not at all cloth related, until
you make it so in your mind…..

Now I’m going to go finish those postcards after I put a bandaid on my right index finger (speaking of stooopid….how do you take a divot out of your fingertip opening a new quart of plain yogurt? I don’t know either, but I managed to do it, and the stooopid cut won’t stop bleeding….how am I supposed to not bleed on the quilted postcards????)

Cheers, Sarah

Morning Mug 9–and teapot, too

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Oh what fun….my friend Marie sent so MANY wonderful treats in her Christmas and birthday box. One of the goodies was this tea-for-one pot and big cup. It is definitely a morning pot and cup. Please don’t ask why, I just know it is! And I inaugurated it already .

In the second photo, you can also see a mini teapot and cup-with-saucer sent by my friend Penny, whom I have known since 7th grade—that was um….1969, which means we’ve known each other for —SHRIEK!!!!!!—- 36 years! Shudder, gasp, ohmyg****d……OK, breathe deeply, concentrate, inhale slowly, and be grateful I was sitting down! OK…back to the minis….. they are for my Christmas tree!!! They are SO wonderful, that I was going to keep them out all year, but I have zero display space in this house, and I think they’ll be even more special on the tree…hanging next to the German ornament Pen gave me about 25+ years ago when she was doing a university year in Heidelberg. Hang on…let me go snap a picture of that one!

Here’s the German ornament–a cradle with two bebitos:

I love being able to look at my tree and think of who and when and where!

Batik log cabin tops

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Well, here they are…the two batik log cabin tops. In the “red center” (first photo), the red logs are the narrow strips (finish at 1 inch wide), and the blue/green are the wide (finish at 1 1/2 inches wide). I still wish there were more undulation, but so it goes! I like the skinny yellow border (half inch) and the pieced outer edge.

In the “blue center”, below, the red logs are the wide ones….I think I like the red center (with blue predominant) better, but once on a lap, it’ll all be a jumble of glorious color anyway! For some reason, though the photos were taken in the same lighting with the same camera with the same fabrics, the color in the second photo is more “true.”

I ordered some Minkee today—a “hand-dyed” look from eQuilter–which will go on the back. I’ll probably quilt it VERY simply…wavy lines or something like that….stay tuned. I likely won’t decide for sure until I sit down to the machine!

Resolutions

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

NOT! I have successfully kept ONE New Year’s Resolution: Never to make any more New Year’s resolutions! Instead, I vowed to make a resolution when it needed making and begin immediately, and not wait until January 1st.

This past year, I finally made up my mind, for example, that I needed to get serious about the excess weight I’ve been carrying around since I was pregnant 8 years ago with my second son. I am now 48. From all I hear, weight loss after menopause is near impossible, so I figured I’d better get the weight off now while I can. So, I did something about it as soon as my husband was recovered enough from his heart surgery (heart attack on Feb. 2–he’s doing great now!) for me to leave him at home alone, with or without the kids around.

Since June 1, when I joined Curves, I have lost 15 pounds and over 15 inches (they measure in a lot of places so it sounds better than it is…but basically about 3-4 inches each around waist and hips…a full pants size). I have another 13 pounds to reach my goal: What I weighed after son number one but before son number two. If I make it, I may even go for another 6 pounds and get to what I was before son number one!

Yesterday, I fit into size MEDIUM pants!!!! So I bought a pair of yoga / exercise pants on sale. After my weigh in tomorrow, I’ll inaugurate the new pants with an extra long workout. Maybe by June 1, my anniversary at Curves, I’ll be at my goal?????