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Blue

Blue.  
That’s the color I picked to quilt this together.  It was my first instinct back when the idea of quilting it with meandering stitches occurred to me. But over time I really started doubting myself and considered about every other color I could think of.  Black like the roads?  White like clouds? The same fall colors I was already using?  Maybe just one of the colors I used?  Nothing seemed quite right.  I was really overthinking it and at an impasse.  Again.
Then I remembered my secret weapon:  I have the most awesome and imaginative friends in the world and I was planning to spend the weekend with them.  So I asked them over the weekend and blue was the second idea I heard.  
(The first being to sort of frame each square with stitches which is a really good idea but I had recently done that.)
Oh yeah, that was that first idea…I’m going for it.  
I didn’t start it until last night so I only got across the quilt two times but it’s a start.
I got enough done to abuse my macro setting privileges.  It’s my favorite way to take pictures stuff I make.
The blue thread really seems to blend in with the blue denim but pop out on the fall colored corduroy and that it was I was hoping for.  
I’m really excited to get further along now.  
Thank you to my friends!!!!!
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Trying to Spread a Little Holiday Shopping Cheer

     
Hobby Lobby
    
Target
    
Gordman’s
    
Old Navy
Blockbuster Video
All affixed with scotch tape, no stores were harmed.
Have a great holiday! 
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Train Wreck

I am having some trouble posting here. 

My camera is missing.  I know it’s somewhere in our house. 

I also haven’t finished anything to take pictures of (If I had anything to take picture with) because we are busy prepping our house to put it on the market.  We are hoping to change neighborhoods.

I could post pictures of the basement wall I painted or the empty spots where the furniture I’ve given away was but they aren’t interesting. 

Plus- again- I have no camera. 

This has slowed down the Etsy shop, too.

I haven’t given up, though.  I will be back to posting once the camera resurfaces.  It’s bound to with all this crazy decluttering.  In the meantime, please enjoy this train wreck from the ’70s:

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Sometimes I think I’m so smart.  Like the time I thought it would be a really good idea to knit a rug.  1st I made a really loooooooooong i cord ball.  I used all the red and yellow and orange yarn in the house. 
I thought it would take a really long time to make but it didn’t.  Sitting and waiting for it to make itself did make it take longer.
Eventually I sewed it all up.
It looked great for a day.

But using differnt weight yarn that was made out of all different kinds of yarn made it bumpy and it never laid flat.  I took it apart and washed it after we got rid of our cat (That’s another story).
Here’s some of it, post felting.  It sat for about two years until I decided to cover my wreath form.
Ta da!
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Is that for me?

This guy was an experiment.  I don’t think I’ll make more like him.  I was cleaning up after making him – and a few others – and left him on Matt’s side of the bed.  Is that for me?  he asked, excitedly.   I was so surprised. I didn’t know he wanted a stuffed animal. 
Yes, of course!  You should have it, I answered.  I’ve made so many and never thought to make one for Matt.  He’s just really not a stuffed animal kinda guy.  Now the bunny lives on Matt’s side of the bed.

OK.  After re-reading this post I have to add this:  It’s on his side table, not on the bed.  He really isn’t a stuffed animal guy – he just loves me.  🙂

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Etsy?

A few years ago I opened an Etsy store.  I listed only my jewelry.  No bites.

I truly think that you have to have an established customer base already to sell things on Etsy.  I let the shop go having learned that Etsy is a dead end for me.

So, somebody please explain to me why I just opened another one.

It means I have to have an inventory that’s just for Etsy, I have to keep up with the site, I have to deal with shipping and taxes.  Yet, there it is.

I only have one item on there right now.  I plan to list a wider variety of items:  stuffed animals, jewelry and maybe even some vintage stuff.  Maybe that will justify my many trips to Dig N Save.

If I mention my Etsy store on the tags that are on things I sell locally, maybe someone will check it out, right? 

I used Marilyn Monroe logic:
“Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?”
— Marilyn Monroe