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was a Big work away today but before i left,  i admired the Lilac blossoms that are coming on,  swooned in their scent and made a promise to refresh her water bowl when i came home.  Then coming home, i took a quick nap and then did phone with Granddaughter,   a lot of kind of off the wall conversation that she and i are good at.   Cleaned the kitchen from yesterday and thought about how i have decided to make Chocolate Chipless Chocolate Chip Cookies,  have a sweet tooth that can not be sated by anything i see at the store.  

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no chocolate chips,  but other wise the original Toll House recipe with walnuts and the added Orange Zest to give a fruity flavor.  Tomorrow morning maybe.  

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and tho by this time i was feeling lazy,  i kept my promise and dug out a winter's full of blown sand to give more room for water.  You can see Chinche peeking from the porch…this is where she likes to pee in the morning.  Now she'll need to go further away.

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Some of the Goats watched.

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i got word of an Open Studio and Gallery Tour in my beloved town up the mountain,  Magdelena, which is forever and never endingly off  and on intent on becoming a destination.   This is May 2nd and 3rd.   And i am thinking of taking some Cloths there.  I have a couple that are finished,  but would need a couple more.  I looked at the above.   I could never let this one go,  but maybe???? ???I could make one similar?  I've never done that.  Tried to make something similar….but ….????Maybe????  Do you see the face in the lower right side?    

so i like myself today.  All these things,  including the work away   Including a very fast afternoon storm that i watched coming,  FELT coming,  and then DID come…sudden,  fast,  small and Over.  Sun now is SHINING as it falls over the rim.

Beauty FULL day.

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22 responses to “feelin Well Rounded”

  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    Gallery wow. I wish I could go that way but I can’t.

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Unless you try…you will never know. What is known is that you have a gallery full of followers…..readers…admirers…..that would encourage you to try. Love the lilacs..oh and that peace you could never let go…..I love it!!!

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  3. grace Avatar
    grace

    why not?
    this is nothing big. It’s two days. not juried. simple.
    and i guess that’s why i am maybe willing.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    i like it because i Love Magdelena, love what Magdelena is always trying for. So…i think i will. I think i will and just go, and hang out with others who MAKE stuff and feel the energy of that, the hopefullness of that.

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    with the Dolls….there was the Juried thing that somehow made it
    seem more uhhh, important. more legitimate. that it was Juried.
    somehow more ok to do. Now, i am thinking of the day when i can’t
    bring self to go clean people’s homes. How might i feed self? Feed Goats? If somehow Cloth Making can help, then Cloth Making it is. But i don’t know. Till i take that step in Just Going.

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  6. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    yes.

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  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Be U T FULL still life for walnut orange cookies, LILAC Oh my my, goats in the run watching, the crow lizard boat cloth WOWIE WOW with so much going on in it and THOSE STITCHES !!! SUCH A SUN SETTING and making the windowed wall glow.
    GO, Bring cloth Yes, do do do. DO GO. DO bring Cloth you can part with and that one (just to show).

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  8. ² Avatar
    ²

    Yes Grace let the people BE PART of this vision this energy ,
    make them more rich….. share it with the world ,
    he become more full of beauty
    even like the wind take the smell of the lilacs with him to bring over the see ……. my nose like it and smile

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Ah Lilac, the beautiful scent comes through the ether & love hearing that you will be exhibiting your work Grace, variations on the theme are the thread that runs through.

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  10. patriciaspangler47@gmail.com Avatar
    patriciaspangler47@gmail.com

    oh this cloth. the face. i remember it. like seeing an old loved one after many moons. and magdelena. why not? your work will blow the place away.

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  11. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    So glad you will hold on to this cloth … and am intrigued by your thought to make another one like it. I thought I would have a hard time making a second lullaby book and was happy to find that the concept evolved into something even richer. So, who knows?

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  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    i realize this morning that there is no need to keep it

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    a gift for your nose….i can imagine a nose smiling, too

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    it’s important for me, to do this

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    i just want to Be there

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    loved this thought….and yes, how i watched you do this,
    but i realized today, Thursday, that i can take it. it can go.

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  17. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    At first I shook my head as if the convince you otherwise. So many pieces I’ve made that are so long gone I cannot remember them … and I’ve regretted that I didn’t make more just to keep.
    Then I thought … there will still be pictures, here on the blog. Like photographs of our kids, to remind us of how they were once, before we let them go.
    And I am nodding my head now … not that you needed any convincing.

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    i looked off and on all day. still am. I really love this Cloth,
    love what it was that i had learned from Jude that had made it
    possible to Make. All the small details….love them.
    Maybe with tomorrow’s post i will detail them one by one….and
    maybe the blog will remain. Maybe picasa will remain, where i
    keep all the pics. Maybe not. I make print outs of stuff too.
    they are in a folder.
    So…Why do we KEEP things? why. What does it GIVE if we keep it.
    it really IS
    the Making
    that i need. Watching an image come into being. Letting it surprise me. the Delight.
    This Cloth, how “she” has lizards and crows in her hair….such an old story of mine, how we carry things in our hair…
    One of the first drawings my son made when he was 7, in my old
    Mentor Kay’s children’s drawing class…but he gave me 3 rabbits in my hair. I used to tell my kids that, that what we love is tangled in our hair and for me, always Wind, SouthWest Wind and then what it gifted me with
    so the Story remains
    i’ll create it again because it’s a story of my hair. of how things get caught in our hair and make us who we are, make us a Story of ourselves
    maybe if it Goes somewhere, the Story will get tangled in someone else’s hair and wouldn’t that be just such a Fine thing?

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  19. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Most everything I’ve made has been given away … and yes, I too love the making (used to delay finishing pieces because, like a good book, I didn’t want them to end).
    But now I also want the pleasure of using the things I make … my kitchen towels make me happy every day … touching them, relearning their lessons, marveling at how strong they are … after years of coddling my needlework in frames on the wall.
    My biggest mistake was not taking pictures of what I made … of those things I’ll never see again. Which is sad, because I like revisiting the person I was then (and sometimes I like realizing I Iike even better the person I’ve become).

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    i like this. A lot. the pleasure in your kitchen towels…
    their strength, that you gave this in collaboration with their fiber
    and the coddling of things in frames…the change from that…I can
    imagine some of how this might feel. I had never done that kind of Care FULL work, Jude is the first i really knew of stitching so i don’t come from that background but can very much imagine how different what you are doing now must be…how Wild, really…..
    and having a sense of OurSelves in the making we do…this especially. I love how you bring this up….who we have become, who we were….
    this is a really Fine Thread of Thought

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  21. Josh Wise Avatar
    Josh Wise

    Always enjoy your posts 🙂

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  22. grace Avatar
    grace

    HEY…..!!!!! Thank YOu!!! you are in Australia….yes????

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