tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548322470517632842024-02-20T23:35:28.579-06:00Arting Around With FibreDianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-89726160838434306212013-12-04T13:28:00.002-06:002013-12-04T13:28:47.841-06:00Busy in the Studio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is another addition to my Stepping Out series....House Hunting, or Mine, I Saw It First! I had some fun with Polymer Clay. Does anyone need some practice frogs??</div>
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I have a new diversion as well, Free Form Knitting and Crochet. What fun to play with!! You can do wonderfull stuff with it. <br />
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Now I get to shop for yarn stash.......Wheeeee!</div>
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I am getting ideas more quickly now, sometimes it helps to run off a few small projects like this Button Snake!</div>
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I have had fun with a diptych, Future Dreaming and Past Reminiscing. I am pleased with the concept, but I think the ocean needs a bit more difinition.</div>
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Interestingly, the foreground is the reverse of the sky fabric, and it was snow dyed with cold water dye! Who'da thunk it?<br />
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This playing around with fibre is always fun and interesting.<br />
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My world was full of skeptics when I told thim that this was going to be a bird bath? Doesn't anyone have creative vision anymore?</div>
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I have finished the fountain that consumed me for the entire spring.</div>
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I was gifted with an absolutely gorgeous piece of driftwood 4 ft. long with several holes in it. It took me a while to come up with this. </div>
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It is in the garden now and looking lovely; actually a bit like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark! The bowls are kitty litter bucket bottoms draped with gray Paverpol. The catch basin has a Paverpol framed screen to catch leaves and disguise the bucket. Very effective.</div>
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I found a whole bunch of little metal display frames, post card size, at a garage sale and am making a bunch of bead studies. They can be slipped out of the frames to be matted and framed any way you like as the edges are all finished. They are wonderfull samples for ideas of larger works. The ideas are starting to come.</div>
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I have a new shoe started which will incorporate a couple of polymer clay frogs. Another dicipline I will have to learn. This art is uphill all the way!!</div>
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I am going to sit out in the garden with my DH for a bit, then back to the studio.<br />
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Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-53560686363037132952013-04-23T12:05:00.000-05:002013-04-23T12:05:54.440-05:00Steppin' out some more<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Since we still have two feet of snow on the garden I have been working in my studio and have finished the best (read fun to do) shoe yet!<br />
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Steppin out of the swamp. It is heavy with beads, glass and gemstones. There are 'dinosaur' bones in it, shells, three lizards and a turtle (thanks to Pat F.) There is much froth, foam and spray, and lots of flowing water. All this is on a base of upholstery material. The bottom is fabric covered so it won't mar your coffee table.<br />
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This one is headed for the Eastern Manitoba Judged Art Show in May.<br />
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I am trying to psych myself into tidying up and putting all the beads and components away...sigh, for me the hardest part of any piece. lol<br />
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Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-58694098380555789012013-03-27T11:13:00.000-05:002013-03-27T11:13:17.771-05:00Winter...don'cha just love it!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Whoosh!!! all the snow and ice on the tin garage roof come down on our walk way two days ago! DH and I shovelled it out. Snow blower was of little use as it was mostly large pieces of ice. Then we decided to dig out the Barbecue as the weather is so nice, just below freezing.<br />
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The result of the whole thing is neither of us could move yesterday. Old folks should not get that enthusiastic about snow removal. lol Job satisfaction was great, but aching muscles was not. We were even too tired to cook anything on it.<br />
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Keeping the pathway open to the bird feeder has bee a chore this winter too. I just lugged in a 45 lb. bag of sunflower seeds and the Blue Jays think they have died and gone to heaven!!</div>
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All this snow is four feet + deep in some areas. They are predicting major flooding on the Red river this spring. This does not affect us here in Steinbach, but we have run off to fear. If all this melts too quickly we will drown. Those of us in basement suites are particularly nervous.<br />
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Mind you it is glorious to walk in the yard when the temperature is only a degree or two below freezing, and the sun is shining brightly. It seems that spring will actually come this year. Praise the Lord.<br />
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Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-43230587927023569472013-03-22T17:40:00.000-05:002013-03-22T17:40:04.757-05:00Steppin' Out series...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have finally gotten busy in my studio. It has been a while, and lots of excitement under the bridge. An armed robbery and a 65th surprise birthday party! So there was good and bad.<br />
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There were 42 people at the party, from my life from when I was 13 years old to present! I am awed and humbled that so many friends are still with me. Such love in the room. Friends from my riding days, friends from our wedding party, stitching friends, art group friends, just friends anyway friends, and all sorts of relatives. A good time was had by all.<br />
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But now I am seriously working on shoes. I am calling them my Steppin' Out series. I am amassing quite a collection of shoe blanks.</div>
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Steppin' Out...on the beach. Covered with a tie, a beaded jasper cab and two kinds of shells. The top pic is closer to the true colour.</div>
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This is Steppin' Out....with a spring of pearls. This shoe (vivid pink cloth) was the first shoe I collected. It started it all. It is honkin' huge, but has turned out quite outstanding. Lots of rat tail and glass pearls on a piece of gorgeous fabric I bought just knowing I would find a use for it sometime.<br />
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All the mechanics are done with Paverpol....what wonderful stuff!<br />
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I am now working on Steppin' Out....of the swamp. Covered in dark moss green upholstery fabric it features three little lizzards, an ammonite, some sari waste yarn and a vast amount of beadwork. This will take a while to finish.<br />
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Well I have finally done it. I inherited some fabulous hand painted ceramic lamps from my Mom's estate. They are about 65 years old. I think the shades were the original, as they were rotting off like confetti. We had only been using them for 22 years....eeek....lol.<br />
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DH finally pulled off all the silk and plunked them in the middle of the worktable in my studio....kinda forced my hand.<br />
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We auditioned fabric for a while and came up with a very tasteful cream coloured fabric and a nice narrow cream coloured trim. Yawn.<br />
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This is what I did:<br />
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Lots of semi sheer scarves from the self help, and bead fringe. I did not have enough of either kind to do both lampshades, so I combined them...Way funky!</div>
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Since the furniture is bamboo covered with blue denim, the only thing that doesn't go well here is the actual lamps!! But they are beautiful though. The furniture is as old as the lamps........and me! Good grief!</div>
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DH makes a table centre for the owners of his gym every year. He is getting quite creative even though we no longer have the flower shop. We are downsizing the jungle in my studio (which has the only bright window) and the Norfolk Island Pine is over two feet tall, so out it goes set in an artificial wreath decorated with chocolate and candy. An edible Christmas decoration that they can keep year round. I hope they have a big house. My mom had one that grew to 16 feet! It outgrew here cathedral ceiling.</div>
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He is in the process of unpacking his egg carving studio. I swear he had as many boxes as I did. He and one of his friends insulated and carpeted half the garage just off my studio. DH didn't like the idea of working in his studio waaaaaayyy far at the other end of the house and down a flight of stairs in the spare bedroom. He wanted to be near me......isn't that sweet? We now use the spare bedroom for my extra bins of fabric which had been in the front half of the garage. These bins are getting a lot of mileage on them, all up and down stairs!</div>
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We were given a huge roll of brand new carpet which did his studio, the now spare bedroom, my wee tiny sitting room (room for a rocking chair, a lamp and a small bookcase) and a runner in front of the washer and dryer. A very generous gift indeed.</div>
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.</div>
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The Art Expo sale was very successful, sold lots and was wonderfully inspired by all the sensational art around me. I am pumped! Except.......<br />
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We have turned my studio upside down twice! DH is setting up his egg carving studio, some of my book cases are going in there. We rearranged everything twice. I am now trying to classify and sort my stash of gemstones and beads, trying to get like somewhere near like. Kinda puts creating on hold, but it is fun to fondle everything again.<br />
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I have done a few small items for a gallery:<br />
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Tie Di bags made with ties and gemstones, beading and embroidery.<br />
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Double Credit Card holders, pull the ribbons at the top and up comes your credit card. Fun! These are done with ties as well.</div>
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I have done three shoes. I will do more after Art Expo. The Paverpol takes two weeks to really cure so I am past the deadline for more Paverpol work.</div>
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This is Silver Slipper. A happy accident in finding a fabric with three shades of the same print. (A thrift store find.) Conchos are from a leather belt with potato freshwater pearls added.<br />
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This is Bronze Slipper. Snow dyed fabric and some heavy metal. lol<br />
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Dragon Fly Catcher. The boot is a bit big but I loved the shape and the snow dyed fabric was two way stretch so is on real snug. I had been wondering how I would use that super thick spandex-like fabric. Pink silk is a thrift store scarf, quite lovely.</div>
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The working title was Zen, but there is nothing Zen-like about it. It is now Step Off The Yellow Brick Road. The orange is a tie, and the blue is a snow dye.</div>
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I did have some fabric pulled for another piece, but my dh tidied up and I will have to ask him where he stashed it. He is a very good organiser and I do not want to discourage him by screaming in his ear "DON'T DO THAT". He is currently working on establishing himself an egg decorating studio in the front of the garage......pretty soon I will be able to return the favor!</div>
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Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-66448212575526054162012-09-21T12:29:00.001-05:002012-09-21T12:40:18.333-05:00Last Hat Done<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have finished the last hat. It is a journal of ten years of my horse showing days with some of my horses, from my first to my last. I wouldn't trade a moment of those ten years but every horse I fell off of is speaking to me now!! lol<br />
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I have managed another beady piece, I Love Imperial Jasper, 9 x 7. These little guys are actually square and straight.....my camera eats them funny.</div>
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I have been busy packing up fabric for a sale in Winnipeg on Sunday. I have ten boxes! A lot of cotton, Laura Ashley, Jinny Beyer, etc. Some cotton poly some silk and some rayon. A lot of it is 3 yards or more. All garage sale priced. I hope to do large volume, not high prices, and heaven knows, I don't want to have to unpack it all again!<br />
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Hope to see you all on Sunday! lol<br />
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Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-41177777553963010172012-09-14T15:28:00.000-05:002012-09-14T15:28:49.426-05:00Busy, busy, busy.......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Working in my studio has become addictive. I find myself jonesing when I can't get there every day. I am trying to exhaust my Muse......this is a good thing...right?<br />
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Here is a detail shot of Sedimentary II:<br />
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I love the chatoyance on the Ammonite, and the tubular mesh ribbon is a delight to work with.<br />
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These two are an example of less is more:<br />
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The hat itself is black velvet and sucks dust and lint. I figured that this would be a major nuisance to the curators of the shows it will be in so I coated it with two layers of Paverpol. It is not soft any more, but you can just blow the dust off.</div>
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The next hat is a badly damaged, straw, wide brimmed hat with a round crown. It looks like it might have been a garden hat. Since we are supposed to do something that reflects ourselves I am thinking a cowboy hat!?!</div>
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Wow, another post so soon! There are heavy duty exhaust fumes in my studio from me revving my motor so hard!........or is that a disturbing mental image??<br />
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I shall have to get a better photo...this is perfectly square.....really. Sedimentary II. Hand painted fabric, actually it was the clean up cloth.....why are they always much better than what you were actually trying to do? Seed beads, ammonites, gem stones.<br />
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I am also part of the big Hat Party. I am a sucker for punishment and glommed onto three hats. I am a greedy so and so too! This is Buttoned Down Winter Wedding. Furry almost white hat with lots of a vintage wedding gown attached.<br />
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The feathers and strings of pearls are the perfect finishing touch....who needs a veil anyway?<br />
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Next hat is an elegant little head-hugger that might just be a shame to cover up, but what a lovely opportunity for an outrageous fascinator! So far I am starting out with black, haven't decided whether or not to add some colour.<br />
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The next hat is a little straw wide brimmed hat.....hmmm.<br />
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After that I am going to do up some shoes just for giggles.......wait for that blog post.<br />
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Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-61122331864123640222012-09-03T20:18:00.001-05:002012-09-03T20:18:38.313-05:00Back at it...finally<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am back in the saddle, so to speak.........nowadays I ride a Husquevarna!!<br />
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This is Rainmaker. 5 x 7 When you hold it up to the light you can see the stripes in the agate. I used the corner out of a large piece in the Crap Quota stack, a shame to waste all the lovely quilting.<br />
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Thunder and Lightning. 6 x 8 I reworked another piece on upholstery fabric featuring a nice agate slab. Much better title, but I am not sure how I want to mount it...or just leave it alone, the back is denim.<br />
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Mossy Burl. 5 x 7 Upholstery fabric, ribbon and wool accenting a truly fabulous piece of driftwood.<br />
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Seaweed and Surf. 13 x 13 Another great piece of driftwood with gemstones and seed beads, and hand dyed fabric, rhyolite and a nice amonite.</div>
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I have no excuse, but a very good reason for my long absence:</div>
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This wonderful spot is where I sit and have breakfast and my coffee every morning. The cucumbers on the left gate post are now all the way around the next rung. We can hardly keep up with them! Tomatoes at the foot of the garden are ripening apace. Picked about twenty this afternoon, not counting a double handful of wee Sweet Million.<br />
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It is a very green garden, the perennials are only on their first year, but there are some thrilling surprises!</div>
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A double day lily....eleven buds that all bloomed....that was a gift from friends. They live about sixty miles west of us and have had a drought this summer, they lost the parent plant to this one.</div>
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An Angel's Trumpet, or Datura. We did not plant this, it might have come in with the bit of soil a friend gave us in a box of six Zinnia. Which, by the way, are providing some nice colour in our green garden. I only noticed it two weeks ago when it poked its head up in the middle of the potatoes! How it ever managed to out muscle them is truly a wonder. The potatoes took over like Kudzu vines...but only 2 or 3 tubers per plant. Everyone around here said potatoes were a big</div>
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The Kale we planted to get cabbage worms is working. We had a snowstorm of cabbage butterflies (Canadian White) a few weeks ago and I have seen a wren in the plants picking the worms......big grin! Humming birds in the Zinnia too, even bigger grin!</div>
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The dirt arrived May 19. This is a foreshortened view. The pile goes back a looooong way! One very willing teenager (he is saving for a dirt bike) and I moved this monster in two days, with another day by a big strong friend. I raked and the others shovelled and wheelbarrowed and dumped. I was not a very happy camper after that. I hurt all over.</div>
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Beds built up and planting for the first shift is done. We gathered up a lot of the stuff we had farmed out when we were evicted by the Credit Union (they still have not started demolition and we keep going back to the old garden for more plants). Lots of our perennials made it through the winter, but not the fruit trees. <br />
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We ordered a new orchard. I am an optimist....planting fruit trees at my age on a rental property with only a five year lease (for all the good it did us last time!) We hope to renew the lease so I can pick some fruit. </div>
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At the first post there is a Sorrel plant, halfway to the next post is a Norkent apple, at the post is a Honeycrisp apple sent as a free gift, caused a change of plans in my espalier pattern. Just past the second post is a Manor Plum, doing beautifully, at the third post is a replacement Crimson Passion Cherry. This one is already leafing out and we will see how it does, the first one never became more than a crispy critter! Between the last two posts are three Honey Berries, a Berry Blue, a Svetlana and a Borealis. I lumped them together as they are not self fertile.<br />
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Onions fill the right side and a planting of Mild Mesclun Salad Greens is on the left side....no sign of them yet, but it is very hard to tell.<br />
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This is the overall view with our still temporary birdbath. The soil in the bed at the edge of the patio is almost three feet deep! Step into that bed at your peril! <br />
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We brought back Day Lilies, Iris, Viola, Asiatic Lilies and a Rhubarb. All faring well and even giving us an occasional bloom. I hilled the row of potatoes straight ahead today. There is a lovely Stonecrop and three Mini Globe Thistles (Two of which are up.) A row of Carrots and a row of Beets follow the left edge of this bed and there is a patch of dill in the centre....looks like a bumper crop!<br />
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The next bed left will be more perennials. There is a row of 50 Liatris bulbs in a line from the stone circle and they form a spiral at this end, that is they will when they are up. I see a few peeking through now. There is a row of Lupin planted beside them but I don't expect to see much from them for a while yet. Lots of ground cover planted at the front edge. These will be our mother plants for spreading around in future years. I want ground covers all through the paving stones.<br />
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The leftmost bed is very shady, have planted Hostas. There is an Empress Wu that is supposed to be four feet high and five feet across! It doubled in size in a week. If it keeps that up it just might get that big! It has been far too cold for anything to grow this week. Lots and lots of rain. (There was water in the bottom of the hole when I replanted the cherry tree!)<br />
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The bins at the very back have a Sweet Million, a Purple, a Black and two red varieties of tomato that are up to the first rung on the tomato cages (I had to cover them last night due to frost!!) The peas and radishes in those bins are already up quite nicely.<br />
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Bin one is two Yellow Zuchini (I count 4 that have set) bin two was a Watermelon which got frozen out, bin three is a Green Zuchini, much slower than the yellow and bin four is a Spaghetti Squash. All bins have Kentucky Wonder beans in the back to grow up the fence between us and our neighbors, and novelty radishes in the front (white with red centers!) I replaced the Watermelon with Spinach. I split a rubber hose to put around the sharp edges of the bins to protect the plants when they spill over.</div>
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I like to take my morning coffee out onto the deck to sit and listen to things grow, but that is drowned out by the multitude of sparrows and wrens at the bird feeder!</div>
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We are taking a hiatus until mid July when friends from Morden are bringing us a bunch of extra plants from their picture perfect garden.</div>
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Maybe now I can take a few hours to go into my studio.......Wish me luck!</div>
</div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-73798918275934377492012-05-23T16:59:00.000-05:002012-05-23T16:59:07.550-05:00Progress is being made!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We worked hard all weekend. I was supposed to go to a fabric dying day on the Monday with my stitching group, but my DH gave me a sad-eyed puppy dog look and said that if I would stay home with him he would be my slave-for-a-day in the garden. He won't admit it but he enjoys gardening as much as I do, but he is not too enamoured with the initial set up of a brand new space, it is a powerful lot of work!</div>
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We are a pair of cane-toting old folk, and do a lot of sitting enjoying each other's and the bird's company between spurts of strenuous work!!</div>
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DH has been bringing home perennials that we had farmed out last fall when we were told we had to move. Quite a few did not make the winter, but we have a lot of lilies, iris, a painted daisy, a false sunflower, and something that we have no idea what it is. We may have transplanted a magnificent weed! </div>
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I will be picking up a beautiful rhubarb from our old garden tomorrow. It was given to me by a good friend and has sentimental value. I think I will pick up some of the horse radish as well. (I left some roots and had great fun imagining the horse radish erupting up through the floor behind the new teller cages! I'm baaad!) (Construction has been delayed on the new Credit Union, they are haggling with the Town over parking....or so the rumour goes....). </div>
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The trees are all nicely nestled in, and there is some green coming after only six days...WOW! That's Boughen Nurseries in Valley River, MB. Last year was their 100'th Anniversary. Everything is guaranteed to leaf out and their service is great. (The owner's wife and I used to show horses together many many moons ago.)</div>
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Spring is the busy time for General Meetings of the two art groups I belong to. As I am on the board of both, I am very involved. One group is setting up their annual show and I am the Applications Co-ordinator and have been spending hours and hours with that.<br />
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I injured my hip again with the move in December, and am still, five months later, in severe pain and it has slowed me down to a crawl, not that I am very fast to begin with. It is hard to be inspired and work on art when you are exhausted from dealing with constant pain. DH has been a life saver with the help he gives me around the house, but he can't create art for me. <br />
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We have doubled the width of the sidewalk on the right, put in posts for espaliered trees (apple, plum, cherry and two honey berries) tilled it all and discovered that the back twelve feet of yard that we are not leaving for parking is 8 inches deep in gravel!!</div>
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We then had the top scraped off the dirt at the front and pushed it into the hole left by the gravel removal. I am now plotting out the paths and building them up with gravel upon which we will put the broken pieces of patio tiles in an interesting pattern. Then we will have twelve yards of good topsoil mixed with manure spread over everything, then dig down to find the paths, thus making raised beds.</div>
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Sounds easy, doesn't it? NOT! I am good for filling and placing three half filled pails of gravel then I sit for a while and watch the birds! The paths are inching their way along slowly. My Dr. has told me I can take a lot more Tylenol 3 than I normally do, and with that easing the pain when I work, I really think that the exercise and weight lifting is actually helping to heal my hips. That and my weekly massages.</div>
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(You don't have five deep therapeutic massages in twelve days! Ask me how I know! That is a whole 'nother story!! I thought I would get a jump start on it since our Income Tax refund arrived and I can now afford it. Another NOT! I am down to once a week and trying to be patient.)</div>
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In the studio I am working on a "hat". I have volunteered to do several hats for an exhibit of a hat collection. Various artists are taking the life time collection of hats to turn them into something wondrous. My 'Buttoned Down Winter Wedding' is almost done, base is ready to have the Outrageous added!</div>
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I am also decorating some shoes. The smallest and most impossibly high heeled shoes I can find at the self-help will be turned into more Outrageousness! I am hoping to sell these at a gallery as table ornaments. I also have some commitments for art quilts, and need a lot of new pieces for the show at the end of October. I think I will have to chain myself to my sewing machine!</div>
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</div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-41469174461974710622012-03-05T00:50:00.000-06:002012-03-05T00:50:26.137-06:00Just for laughs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">This is part of what I had to start with there are 80 boxes in these two rows alone!<br />
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The next project will be his Egg Carving studio. After that we will hang the pictures in the living room.....priorities you know!!<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">Across the hallway is a fabric cabinet and plastic bins with mostly Mom's stash; a very eclectic collection! This forms a wall for the office.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoq893JqI5_vHfzJh1i3_evfARn4O3YxwEmoNC8yrslJtR1QkreEne4uOaFpt6VlQ0taJulMYDCF05pR5E72pppeCrQG4x1IiEnnWLZ5gZY7GiLeKz6galp92q8SLjbBgjuZG593pVYM/s1600/Cutting+table+%2526+shelves+Mar+4.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Looking to the right to the back wall of the studio is my Paverpol cupboard, a fabric cabinet, a bookshelf with fabric, and another bookshelf with fabric, stands for polymer clay people, spray paint and indoor gardening supplies.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="ext"></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">My cutting table is under that bit of clutter and under the table are six rolling bins of novelty fabrics<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoq893JqI5_vHfzJh1i3_evfARn4O3YxwEmoNC8yrslJtR1QkreEne4uOaFpt6VlQ0taJulMYDCF05pR5E72pppeCrQG4x1IiEnnWLZ5gZY7GiLeKz6galp92q8SLjbBgjuZG593pVYM/s1600/Cutting+table+%2526+shelves+Mar+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoq893JqI5_vHfzJh1i3_evfARn4O3YxwEmoNC8yrslJtR1QkreEne4uOaFpt6VlQ0taJulMYDCF05pR5E72pppeCrQG4x1IiEnnWLZ5gZY7GiLeKz6galp92q8SLjbBgjuZG593pVYM/s400/Cutting+table+%2526+shelves+Mar+4.jpg" /></a>. The grey stack is novelty fabric and beads.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Standing in front of the cutting table and looking toward the windows and the houseplants. (the basement suite does not have much light for plants so they are in my studio again.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">But the configuration is the same, my back to the window when sewing, and looking out the window through the plants when beading or ironing. These windows are sure a lot smaller than the three patio doors I am used to! Big whine :( !!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Under the plants are six wooden cubes which house my gemstone beads and polymer clay supplies. The tall white rolling cabinet houses gemstones and beads and the fabrics I am currently working with and a drawer full of fabric with fusible on it ready to be made into something wonderfull.....big grin.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Fn1CZ5e4ToG-05mdqGjXpeZXGUjpcEd_RpSzcB1vj8gdVVmbbsJB-6OWIcDYBbmyCFsY7z0M6Vwfo_zYEdsNejZnIChJTkP-mJKgkOUym0Bs4lVprDiLM18WKj5CPA0Ltsg_Ay2bTS4/s1600/Back+of+sewing+desk+and+plants+Mar+4.jpg" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Fn1CZ5e4ToG-05mdqGjXpeZXGUjpcEd_RpSzcB1vj8gdVVmbbsJB-6OWIcDYBbmyCFsY7z0M6Vwfo_zYEdsNejZnIChJTkP-mJKgkOUym0Bs4lVprDiLM18WKj5CPA0Ltsg_Ay2bTS4/s400/Back+of+sewing+desk+and+plants+Mar+4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Standing in the same place and looking left is my book case, a rolling cabinet with printing and painting and dyeing supplies, my Mother's thread cabinets, my long storage cabinet with my beads, shells and tools on top and on shelves above it. There are four drawers at the top housing knitting needles, crochet hooks, fusibles and stabilisers, underneath is batting, embroidery floss, frames, canvasses and a whole lot of general stuff This arrangement of shelves and bookcase actually forms the back wall to the office.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Looking right is the back wall of the studio. I will be putting two cupboards on this wall on either side of my thread rack. The shoe box is full of thread as are the three flat boxes on the thread cabinet.This is one of my last little sorting jobs. In the corner by the garage door is my felting machine.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">One more move like this and I will have my stash memorised!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And now for the Mystery:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">What the heck is this? It turned up in the unpacking. It may have come out of an old jar of buttons. The name on the front is Cresor, or Tresor, sorry there is no picture. Is this a sewing notion of some sort, is there something missing? Should there have been something else hanging off those two clips? Whatever it is, it is very old</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> Enquiring minds want to know!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I am hoping one of you savvy ladies might have some idea here.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Wv3m_FBNtFHJOprKGsCSRpsHSrG_Tx5Ol49N6McGUjBQTFpns0w9xiF_SlOxNN_yEjvOzH0hLPmJfPqZzq5uUy2KVnSJcjzowixkDCaWCVSN5zHj66c907zL9ggLHloy1rWNf6urDiA/s1600/Crespr+Odd+things+close+up.jpg" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Wv3m_FBNtFHJOprKGsCSRpsHSrG_Tx5Ol49N6McGUjBQTFpns0w9xiF_SlOxNN_yEjvOzH0hLPmJfPqZzq5uUy2KVnSJcjzowixkDCaWCVSN5zHj66c907zL9ggLHloy1rWNf6urDiA/s400/Crespr+Odd+things+close+up.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh7swJaRy8EiZXUrPBATgFgZrfMWKV9TbFtB47J71b437_pKV1GeeGNYrM6CpAeYiQ2Dx7BTNIBnWYMFBlusPnCbZXuhq1I6-IbWn-bLGYOX1LnjGjPwzthlRulFkrR2jlkGmHkdtO30Y/s1600/Cresor+back.jpg" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh7swJaRy8EiZXUrPBATgFgZrfMWKV9TbFtB47J71b437_pKV1GeeGNYrM6CpAeYiQ2Dx7BTNIBnWYMFBlusPnCbZXuhq1I6-IbWn-bLGYOX1LnjGjPwzthlRulFkrR2jlkGmHkdtO30Y/s400/Cresor+back.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-85267202363047251422011-11-26T21:25:00.000-06:002011-11-26T21:25:03.959-06:00Yikes!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div>All that is left is the...<br />
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<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBr7Fpc6xGngTQR7t4T1kdxczqVgSLveRAOi16T4Bahvp6h-swVr6QLva8kGztBWlLVqN8PkbQF9PR-0a11KGDw1Qw44uDOR0yZe4_LXXCxjrATp-u8x0zoSl5jKHcfi7OKIuq9Qzyfxg/s1600/Lonely+sewing+machine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBr7Fpc6xGngTQR7t4T1kdxczqVgSLveRAOi16T4Bahvp6h-swVr6QLva8kGztBWlLVqN8PkbQF9PR-0a11KGDw1Qw44uDOR0yZe4_LXXCxjrATp-u8x0zoSl5jKHcfi7OKIuq9Qzyfxg/s400/Lonely+sewing+machine.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Poor Lonely Sewing Machine Mind you we can see the beautiful floor now.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDL_4gZLy4vaQDxUev3XoGybY_kHZh-2ck4UiHuYQgtvRUCJJ0SOSiA4Nxt9U9RZ9_1KrELhrN78aJE7ciC1px692sRcCaowZ8zSjS_HF2yYY7rgEzrKjyDLdeRgMnNqoKeKLphw-56uo/s1600/No.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDL_4gZLy4vaQDxUev3XoGybY_kHZh-2ck4UiHuYQgtvRUCJJ0SOSiA4Nxt9U9RZ9_1KrELhrN78aJE7ciC1px692sRcCaowZ8zSjS_HF2yYY7rgEzrKjyDLdeRgMnNqoKeKLphw-56uo/s400/No.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">All clearly labelled not to move (six guys having fun...hard to get them to focus).</div></div><br />
<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktxB7kMvMYcPMA_YGz48i2Y_LV3l8DDjF2GdZ99JduClx35p0j8_eCEzOWRPyJjmLb542tMfLvwLgecWppfuEQtprb0Clw0m8tnD8t5QmJCkiIszTQ6Ccoaz5bdt1yNyUNzPmYV_X1dE/s1600/Move+food.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktxB7kMvMYcPMA_YGz48i2Y_LV3l8DDjF2GdZ99JduClx35p0j8_eCEzOWRPyJjmLb542tMfLvwLgecWppfuEQtprb0Clw0m8tnD8t5QmJCkiIszTQ6Ccoaz5bdt1yNyUNzPmYV_X1dE/s400/Move+food.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Easy to feed them though...21 donuts some Double Doubles, Hot Chocolate and Coffee, three and a half Extra Large Pizzas and lots of Pepsi.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">All that is left is the dining room table, two chairs, a stool and my sewing chair (I have a project to finish), the office and....</div></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKEaGdihQqxhWFw8IGhG8-e_3CEAnzDjJkDQdHadPPmqtQ59jbZR2cClhIqC0dg14-BfFVETkUynRND91iGgFfyRXSUr6lzf06djRHt9RJkagszNaen0_hvc9l166wydM8OI8QMHXO6Yc/s1600/Office+and+bewildered+kitty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKEaGdihQqxhWFw8IGhG8-e_3CEAnzDjJkDQdHadPPmqtQ59jbZR2cClhIqC0dg14-BfFVETkUynRND91iGgFfyRXSUr6lzf06djRHt9RJkagszNaen0_hvc9l166wydM8OI8QMHXO6Yc/s400/Office+and+bewildered+kitty.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> and one bewildered Sundae. Buddy is still hiding in the bedroom.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I will sweep up all the dust gorillas tomorrow, I am too tired now.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It is delightful to listen to the cats play with their little balls in the completely empty living room and in the almost empty studio.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">You know, cats are like children playing with the empty toy boxes.....lots of expensive kitty toys have been unearthed but she is now playing with an empty coffee creamer......rattle, rattle, clackety, clackety......sure echoes in here now.<a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-61572383467820666762011-11-25T16:41:00.000-06:002011-11-25T16:41:47.716-06:00See I told you so......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="left" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">There really is a sewing machine back there.....and yes that really is a rain barrel</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-3YT6pZpq_ZELlJc6S1vHO6U6wQBgsWUhPBpqe18QaXARxFmITGyp00BjTe488NUuJtH1XBvB-99jESdxCF6qTYC6XM-CPzchOzr1wmNEOTB1vbgoeAuga-njr7vwhJkSRzyGLwXSWY/s1600/IMG_0395.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD-3YT6pZpq_ZELlJc6S1vHO6U6wQBgsWUhPBpqe18QaXARxFmITGyp00BjTe488NUuJtH1XBvB-99jESdxCF6qTYC6XM-CPzchOzr1wmNEOTB1vbgoeAuga-njr7vwhJkSRzyGLwXSWY/s400/IMG_0395.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">inside the door thawing out! It is now ready to dump but we need a big strong person to move it. We will get the same guy that brought it in.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">I had that table empty again, but it is starting to collect stuff again, I didn't fold it down quick enough. </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Large troupe of people coming tomorrow to move boxes and some furniture, wish us luck, they are all volunteers.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Dianne </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-23546783489149827492011-11-22T21:59:00.000-06:002011-11-22T21:59:15.451-06:00I'm in the bag....almost!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><div align="left">It has been a struggle to save my working materials from the over zealous movers, but I am on the home stretch here, the two sides of the bag are done, now I just have to construct it. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">I am planning a zipper closure and an elaborate interior with a zipper section and a few pockets, all trimmed in either gold or silver thread......if I can get my thread and my machine to agree with each other. I will be using ties for a shoulder strap, just knotting them so there is some adjustment room.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">I will be fusing some heavy duty Pellon to the back of these panels to give them stability. A dragon's hoard weighs a lot. It is a good thing that my patron wants a museum piece art bag, she is little and will quickly tire carrying this bag, especially if she puts anything in it!!! lol</div><br />
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The dragon is a real sweetie.....she is snuggled down in her hoard and dreaming of laying an egg. I just stuffed and needle sculpted her this evening. All she needs is two little red Swarovsky crystals in her nostrils and some tooth whitener. Any ideas??? Acrylic paint maybe??<br />
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There are clear silver-lined seed beads on the ceiling of the cave on the right side, although they do not show in the picture. I did this to highlight the light comeing in from the cave opening. I am hoping they will catch the light when the bag is moved.<br />
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<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVLNq9JZcNLx5IaN8FLBPtHYh_cLGG433NpnWZy4YA89VA0nTbVDjynASNbgRk_AhQf8Wg0TKwBi1abjgaGU7YXinEHIbCnSbMaUTRbHGhEi2uQu0oMiOFtm3R6Mr5glqwwlUx4yHrw4/s1600/Dragon+almost+done.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVLNq9JZcNLx5IaN8FLBPtHYh_cLGG433NpnWZy4YA89VA0nTbVDjynASNbgRk_AhQf8Wg0TKwBi1abjgaGU7YXinEHIbCnSbMaUTRbHGhEi2uQu0oMiOFtm3R6Mr5glqwwlUx4yHrw4/s640/Dragon+almost+done.jpg" width="640" /></a> </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">To balance off the skeleton there are three tiny silver crosses in the mix. Dragons will collect anything shiny, and defend their hoard very fiercely. Young dragons have difficulty telling rhinestones from real diamonds, but they get better at it as they mature.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">It has been a nice break from packing to work on this bag. It sort of growing on me.....but then so do warts.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Hugs to all,</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Dianne </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-58934155595966570312011-11-22T21:28:00.001-06:002011-11-22T21:28:53.652-06:00Moving update for those of you who are helping...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><div align="left">...in spirit that is!!</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">The up side of all this is I get to fondle my stash as I pack, albeit very quickly.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Remember the bookshelves filled with boxes? Those boxes went and new ones are piled up, and the cases are labeled for placement. All this stuff is going on the 26th when DH's largest Bible Study group are bringing their pick up trucks (living in a rural community is nice, almost everyone has a truck!) and helping with a major move.</div><br />
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</div>Remember that closet that was emptied, well it is getting full to overflowing again, but it sure is nice to have a place to put the packed boxes. Anyone want an antique Singer hem marker? The rubber bulb is still soft, and there is even chalk in it. If nothing else it will be a conversation piece...along with my antique ironing board. lol<br />
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There were two large bookcases here in this wall, they went last week and we are using the space for packed boxes. We have rounded up all the plants except this one and are caring for them on an antique ironing board in the living room. They will be moved on the final day.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7wsSzqeiqwq-uIsLNSXtT1hLBKIw97oPdLcG-CuTtjT-_auNg4-X1Vv8QiWa_AkzVKn_53D70vnmi32pLC9fHeZpbC7Ytpyjc38VYN8QaIyNFPNRhuSb07-y2Hs6GYs0KjPBxt6Smac/s1600/Stuff+stacked+in+place+of+bookshelves.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7wsSzqeiqwq-uIsLNSXtT1hLBKIw97oPdLcG-CuTtjT-_auNg4-X1Vv8QiWa_AkzVKn_53D70vnmi32pLC9fHeZpbC7Ytpyjc38VYN8QaIyNFPNRhuSb07-y2Hs6GYs0KjPBxt6Smac/s400/Stuff+stacked+in+place+of+bookshelves.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The living room is packed and and all the furniture is stacked to go. Our living room suite is a piece of cake to move, it is sectional and made of rattan.....light as a feather. The cushions are heavier than any one piece of the furniture.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkH0oRYjsaYm3I4v5cN5yrXwossoe7aVcnMIWF90XXFItP5nXscLpRyZl00C5jIWU7qblfWDl4N505DoiRYIOmTJrZe8QlYmcWZcP4isg55ZDwEXC77RlaY7mlPxOGRwDersWVk08Z9q0/s1600/Living+room+ready+to+go.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkH0oRYjsaYm3I4v5cN5yrXwossoe7aVcnMIWF90XXFItP5nXscLpRyZl00C5jIWU7qblfWDl4N505DoiRYIOmTJrZe8QlYmcWZcP4isg55ZDwEXC77RlaY7mlPxOGRwDersWVk08Z9q0/s400/Living+room+ready+to+go.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">This is the last unpacked studio section. I need it as I am rushing to finish a commission piece before everything is in boxes and gone to our new home where I will not be able to find anything for quite a while.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwl5u5ETMTTquF0KVl3psgXtG0kUFCjXhxsuVc49O10PCnPOQsX0oXWQZGzNe69ahIFofZ_d9x0Xd0HfeDjsGiPRqq8-6D_6CPsWU29sFeYeC2y0QmDuAEyqG1JfwZ84zyT1ZRUWEoLs/s1600/Last+section+unpacked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwl5u5ETMTTquF0KVl3psgXtG0kUFCjXhxsuVc49O10PCnPOQsX0oXWQZGzNe69ahIFofZ_d9x0Xd0HfeDjsGiPRqq8-6D_6CPsWU29sFeYeC2y0QmDuAEyqG1JfwZ84zyT1ZRUWEoLs/s400/Last+section+unpacked.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">I had better get to this soon, as everyone keeps piling things into this area (I won't dare show you what is on the other side of this table.....there is even a 55 gallon drum rain barrel brought in off the patio to thaw so we can empty it for moving!) </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This table has actually been cleared twice now. It's as if people are rounding up stuff and herding it into a pile for me to deal with, it makes for a strange assortment of stuff in boxes when you are trying to pack like with like. There will be some surprises at the other end. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">If I can get it clear again I will fold it up and lean it up against a wall.....that'll fix 'em.......or will they just start burying my sewing machine?? Believe it or not my trusty Husky is set up on the far side of that mountain of stuff in the picture. Honest!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">I will post about the progress on the bag.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="ext"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-12977454267963075702011-11-13T22:13:00.000-06:002011-11-13T22:13:13.227-06:00On the move again........<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">My husband had his Bible Study buddies over on Friday (Remembrance Day...and remember what friends are for day!) and they moved a LOT of stuff. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxMptRNcWLHXC9nQQy4zz85cbJPV_jHDydhIOEXUcLgZuylvBMaETwOFGL0-Q-JgdUTFSr6yjYZ1mU2CJwpa-pt8uapCBcMZVwKHVI7YWt7tQ-dpO8c2ztgabgf6X57d4pFlODP-EAn1A/s1600/IMG_0383.jpg" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxMptRNcWLHXC9nQQy4zz85cbJPV_jHDydhIOEXUcLgZuylvBMaETwOFGL0-Q-JgdUTFSr6yjYZ1mU2CJwpa-pt8uapCBcMZVwKHVI7YWt7tQ-dpO8c2ztgabgf6X57d4pFlODP-EAn1A/s400/IMG_0383.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Picture this cupboard (tilt your head a bit and squint) full to the top with the orange boxes pictured below. My button stash and my upholstery fabric stash.<br />
I filled this up to the top again today in readiness for the next moving day. All larger boxes with fabric and my yarn stash in them. I emptied a cabinet that we are going to use in the dining room in the new place. These two bookshelves will go to when we move the office, they are the back wall for it.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Two bookshelves just like these and the boxes of all the books that were packed solidly in them went to the new place, and three boxes of books went to my Art Quilting group. I spent the day with them as my DH did not want me around annoying the young fellows who were moving. (i.e. mud on floors, breakage, putting stuff in the wrong place at our new home......etc.) I managed to forward three boxes of books to friends this way, had to bring very few home again.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">On the way home we stopped at the new place, and I did have to spend an hour with a very nice fellow moving boxes to their proper place so that the heavy furniture can be placed exactly the first time. I do not want to have to play Chinese Puzzle with boxes and heavy furniture when I get there. I planned out on graph paper exactly where everything is to go. We only want to schlepp the furniture around once.</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsFbDbNAOAk_f1lw4fY9RoM2X_2q_06lRQ00JiG27oX3WgAdBLeEDu7s87k5v5KcIfY3rVtA_lq1qpjJZ6Yhr57EwkvxWZnVdOIBpHG6iZF0o52J5igHa2s4PaLGuf-JMql53FTqKkOg/s1600/Empty+Boxes+by+closet.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsFbDbNAOAk_f1lw4fY9RoM2X_2q_06lRQ00JiG27oX3WgAdBLeEDu7s87k5v5KcIfY3rVtA_lq1qpjJZ6Yhr57EwkvxWZnVdOIBpHG6iZF0o52J5igHa2s4PaLGuf-JMql53FTqKkOg/s400/Empty+Boxes+by+closet.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Notice the ties are all gone...seven big boxes! More empty boxes a table to be sorted and a willing to help cat. We are finding a multitude of cat toys behind and under stuff. The cat is happy. (This morning while I was on the loo he brought me a little orange ball and we played fetch for a looong time. He had me captured on the throne and at his mercy, and he brought the ball right back to my feet every time.....he has no off button!) </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">I also swept up enough cat hair to make another cat! I am going to have to find a way to keep stuff from creeping or being played under the rolling bins. I might just leave the wheels off after the move.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjWSke2F8PNMzqOywshNxkGrBB192klomkpL8Lw9vIVocSnS4lSqaHr4Scpasd1MXIBLPF4fB4J2uEGhDuFUXkxsMrQ7y2_wlPr1amacQaMusdU7JVyGJsNUD8N7R0v1a4VA3q9w2PbwI/s1600/Tilted+Table+loaded.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjWSke2F8PNMzqOywshNxkGrBB192klomkpL8Lw9vIVocSnS4lSqaHr4Scpasd1MXIBLPF4fB4J2uEGhDuFUXkxsMrQ7y2_wlPr1amacQaMusdU7JVyGJsNUD8N7R0v1a4VA3q9w2PbwI/s400/Tilted+Table+loaded.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">And yes I do feel a bit topsy-turvy.......guess where they put stuff that was on the furniture that I did not want moved yet...yep, you're right...on the nearest flat surface. And yes I had to go and get some stuff for the commission I am doing (has to be done before Christmas) and bring it back! Lots of packing yet to do.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">But I refuse to whinge about the small stuff, those guys worked very hard and I am sooo grateful. They were using two vans and two pick-up trucks and they made two trips each fuelled only by two boxes of donuts! Next time I will have Pizza for them, but I wasn't there. Remember...I had been sent away for the day!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">One of our friends hid a big box of ties (rose boxes from the flower shop, 1' x 1' x 4') on me. He is always teasing me that I have too much stash, only that is not what he calls it. I noticed right away and remarked about it. I had found in the garage, but was not going to let on. Today I told him that if he touched that tie box in the garage I would tear his arm off and stick the wet end in his ear!We had a good laugh.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">I have finished packing for today, but I must admit that it is lovely to go through it all and fondle it a bit while repacking it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Tired but satisfied sigh,</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Dianne Leatherdale Johnson</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-84060779000889472612011-10-23T18:43:00.000-05:002011-10-23T18:43:23.661-05:00Continuation of previous post.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">That dainty little green gem beside the mushroom is the most luxurious and beautiful ground cover. You can practically hear it grow and the mature leaves are 2" across until........insert eerie music here.......about the middle of July it lays flat in the centre and looks ugly and goes to seed making a tri-zillion seeds that sprout at the least provocation everywhere in your yard that the wind has seen fit to take them. You will never get rid of it...never.....Roundup was made for this plant.....it is Round Leaf Mallow! Beware!</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">I harvested the Horseradish and the beets, not leaving that for the demolition crew! I made the most wicked hot Horseradish/beet relish! Wonderful stuff. I made a gallon of it....and now am giving it away to people who are not afraid of it...surprisingly many are! I also brought in all the carrots, froze a bunch and gave away some, and kept the wonky ones to eat fresh.......aren't carrots fun to grow?? I bet nice Victorian ladies were not allowed to harvest them! lol</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">I did not get all the Horseradish roots out, and have delightful fantasies of giant Horseradish leaves bursting up through the floor of the 40 million dollar building the CU is going to build on this spot! hehehe</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">I have pretty much stopped new work for Manitoba Art Expo at The Downs in November and am concentrating on a commission I have to have done for Christmas.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">We are addressing the packing issue even though we have not been notified of a settlement of our lease, and since our lawyer put a caveat on the title it cannot be transferred until we are satisfied to our 'mutual agreement' as it says in our lease. We cannot even look for a new location which will accommodate our business, our home and our two cats until we know what the settlement will be. I hate this waiting, we were supposed to hear on September 16, but nothing yet.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Do you remember this picture? This is what I had just two short years ago:</div><div align="left" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqz94LLsLQzdn1Kp8sJ91hTvr_SR9Xxga0zjhXUsa-mG2c_phhVb6NXl5wExST0vU3AhEzMT0LR_bULBM6NOAQwroRl8XYuURHklHQBpKzpWVo2S96rblCoM3MBesv97swbH3Ab3rv7Ek/s1600/New+Studio+before.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqz94LLsLQzdn1Kp8sJ91hTvr_SR9Xxga0zjhXUsa-mG2c_phhVb6NXl5wExST0vU3AhEzMT0LR_bULBM6NOAQwroRl8XYuURHklHQBpKzpWVo2S96rblCoM3MBesv97swbH3Ab3rv7Ek/s400/New+Studio+before.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Stacked to the ceiling and fifteen feet deep to the patio doors! Now I get to do it all over again. I am going to be packing it all myself and hope to do a better job; like with like, good labels and not a jar of buttons in each and every box like the last guy did. (He did it as a joke, I laughed until I started finding a bag of beads in every other box. It took me forever to sort out my new studio.) I have only three different styles of boxes...two kinds of nail boxes from a pallet making company, and big chick transport boxes from a local poultry company. </div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">All boxes will be closed for stacking and be well labelled. One type of nail box, with the flaps up, will fit into the other nail box with the flaps open as well. Just like those fruit cases. Makes a box and a half tall if I need it but is closed for stacking. I have packed eight this way already. I have loooots of boxes! I also kept eight rose boxes from the flower shop in which I moved my ties.......so was I really expecting to have to move again? DH saved them in the attic.....good man.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">I am contemplating hiring myself out as a professional packer!</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Please remember us nomads in your prayers.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;">Love to all....</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"> Dianne</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: 0% 50%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Dianne Leatherdale Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925117495360350239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354832247051763284.post-54593890293827506702011-10-22T12:24:00.010-05:002011-10-23T18:45:21.099-05:00Life boggleing news!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><div align="left">We are having to move.....!! Sept 1 we were informed that our building had been sold to the Steinbach Credit Union for demolition and we were to be out by Dec 31!</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">We had just put five yards of soil into the yard in preparation for more raised perennial beds. Shovelled some of it myself!</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">The Morning Glory has bloomed in all it s luxuriousness, </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVg_3DV2MvCv_i8UMYMUoWCcQX-TRjulArGTDRYm3Sc4dZSw9jck5kOZ4twFrBijlqbYa8Q_RrtID4d7OU_ySHR1wZ74-JTyR2u9x31TbOjUWKnyOvr7_MCFLtqxtcvsrtKQVmz_y2pc/s1600/morning+glory+2011.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVVg_3DV2MvCv_i8UMYMUoWCcQX-TRjulArGTDRYm3Sc4dZSw9jck5kOZ4twFrBijlqbYa8Q_RrtID4d7OU_ySHR1wZ74-JTyR2u9x31TbOjUWKnyOvr7_MCFLtqxtcvsrtKQVmz_y2pc/s400/morning+glory+2011.jpg" /></a><br />
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and finally, at this late stage in my life I have Shaggy Mane mushrooms blooming in my own yard! They are<br />
delicious.....darn! </div><br />
<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYjdOn8NMYDSWUmyEHJ94PhGXjuhPIxAvOJUqrnG_CA1afrtQbBcRoo_tsSZjfKyEM_83TsKSqj2_6bcpzwv6p1dM_p2N8z9aRsbaicV8kwLFWZFN3DbVTDun2x4o_pVbm5vs5hyphenhyphenZ12Q/s1600/shaggymane+in+garden.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYYjdOn8NMYDSWUmyEHJ94PhGXjuhPIxAvOJUqrnG_CA1afrtQbBcRoo_tsSZjfKyEM_83TsKSqj2_6bcpzwv6p1dM_p2N8z9aRsbaicV8kwLFWZFN3DbVTDun2x4o_pVbm5vs5hyphenhyphenZ12Q/s400/shaggymane+in+garden.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">This one is a tad over ripe.<br />
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