Almost everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE to work jigsaw puzzles. Over the past three or four years I have accumulated thousands of photographs that I have made into puzzles or plan to make into puzzles. Tonight I sat here and enlarged pictures, made them into puzzles, and then sat and put many [...]
Christy is in Colfax staying with an aunt that is in the hospital so while she is gone I do the cooking. Today I made a big pot of soup and was not sure if Brian would eat it or not. I was rather surprised when he said that it was good. I also made [...]
For the time being it seems that our really cold weather has moved on to some other state. Today it was in the sixties and that is a nice temperature for the wintertime. It is warm enough in my studio that I have turned off the heat. It was such a beautiful sunny day that [...]
I have had an application for a job at the Jackson Parish Library for months and just kept putting off filling it out and taking it back to the head librarian. Last week I started filling it out and then got sidetracked with something else. Today I went to the library to ask the librarian [...]
All my life I have been a perfectionist, but I have finally beaten that problem and now I just do the best I can and am happy with the results. The quote by Michael Fox is one of my all time favorites. In fact it helped me get over thinking that everything I do has [...]
Where oh where did the sunshine go? Woke up this morning to rain hitting the windowpanes and it has rained the entire day. Not a hard rain but just enough that you needed an umbrella unless you could run fast.
“It’s almost as if the mind hungers for an artistic outlet to balance the mundane chores of day-to-day living. Inside every practical down-to-earth person there is a wild artist longing to get out. Quilting can provide a challenging and productive exit.” Unknown “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to [...]
Definition of an Artist “He who works with his hands is a laborer.” “He who works with his hands, and his head, is a craftsman.” “He who works with his hands, and his head, and his heart, is an artist.” Louis Nizer The quote above is one that I really like. However, since Christmas I [...]
The temperature today was at least twenty degrees warmer than it has been for about a week. That suits me just fine. I have also noticed that the days are getting longer. A couple weeks ago when I would be driving home about five it was getting quite dark and now there is still some [...]
I have been so cold lately that yesterday when I was in Wal-Mart I bought myself a pair of thermal underwear. I had to get men’s for the only size they had in women’s was extra small. I also bought some thick, fuzzy, long, and warm socks. Had to get those in the men’s department [...]
