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TV/Undie Meme

Although I resisted I have finally given in and decided to post my version of the TV and underwear meme started by Receptionista, Tvindy and Oriornoir. I decided to combine the two memes because right under the TV on my dresser is my underwear drawer. As you can see I have many, many pairs of VC cotton bikini undies in many colors and patterns. I like colors and patterns.

Blue Quilt Completed.

Here it is:

Okay, it's not really blue. It's more teal and other greens and blues with a touch of yellow. The fabric was a batik and the pattern comes from Georgia Bonesteel's Bright Ideas for Lap Quilting .

This is the last of the three quilts I started two years ago. While I picked fun and interesting designs I did make a batch of dark quilts. I wonder if this is related to the bad economy? While I was making these both my cutie and I were between gigs. However, I made these at the beginning of my seven month hiatus and really had no idea it was going to be that long. Perhaps it was the shadow of 911 that haunting me.

It's good to have these done. I still have one partially made quilt but I kind of gave up on it when it went all wonky on me. I'll probably leave that one alone for a while longer.

Dawn Dolls

Here in my office I have put my Dawn dolls on display. Two of the dolls and all the clothes were given me by my sisters for one Christmas. The other Dawn dall is from my frend Jim. He picked her up for less than a dollar and gave her to me as the naked woman. No matter, he knew I had the clothes for her. She is the only Dawn with short hair. The other two have long golden hair.

They share 5 ball gowns, three short dreses and two bathing suits. Obviously, not all the clothes can be worn at one time. Many of them are on the gold dummy forms the clothes came in.

For years they were in a box made of Christmas cards and stitched together with embroidery stiches. My Auntie Ray had gotten the box from a friend. I greatly admired my Auntie Ray. She was beautiful and posessed grace, class and good taste. There is an old slide of me sitting next to her. I was emulating her in every way a 7 year old can. I was sitting like her. I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood where most of the woman wore house dresses, smoked, drank coffee and gossiped. Auntie Ray wore clothes from Marshall Fields and elegant perfume. She loved good food, nice things like china and crystal. She died in my early teens and I still miss her. If she had lived I would thank her for teaching me to appreciate the better things in life.

The Dawn dolls are no longer in that box. They are displayed on the shelf with all their clothes now. The handbags and most of the shoes that came with the gowns also survived. They are lovely. What girl ever out grows her dolls?

Another one done

I completed a few quilts tops a couple of years ago and am now determined to finish them.

This is my martini quilt. If you look closely you may see why I call it that. It is tied with beads.

The next quilt is going to have be machined quilted. That is always a challege....

Kitchen Redecorating

Today, when I ought to have been doing more serious adult type things such as study for class or pay the bills, I decided to do a little redecorating in my kitchen. I sewed up some curtains, painted spots on them and then decided the walls needed some spots too...

Finished!

Today I finished this quilt that I started two year ago. I think I'll snuggle up under it while I watch TV now...

Art Project

I now have a big green flower hang over my fireplace that I made myself. The process can be seen in my photo album. It was fun to make. It matches my living room due to the fact that I made it from the paint I used in the living room. It sort of looks like a big green flower. Or a tornado coming out of a clear blue sky. It’s very different from what I had there before and it was made with my two hands and stuff that was destined to be thrown away anyway. It may get turned into a yellow flower soon with a green center. The beauty of using house paint is it is designed to cover the paint that is already there.

But for now I will just sit back and enjoy my big green flower....