windthread

recent posts

about

In Demand

this is Funny.  I don't quite know how to feel about it.  

You know,  cause i've said,  i had/have feelings of taking self out of the "marketplace",  finally,  about letting my last  "Work Aways" go,  and there being the feeling of being unemployable after all these years from  15 years old…..since i am now old.  and the feeling of maybe have jumped the gun cause i'm still here,  still needing fire wood, etc.  but then the contradiction of wanting TIME to put ClothMaking FIRST…

anyway

and i am stitching away…that Kantha and phone rings and it's Jean who i worked for maybe 10 years ago and quit abruptly because she left me a note saying to please be sure to get the kleenex under the bed and i thought….NO….pick up your own used kleenex and left a note to that affect…never going back…any way,  Jean,  who said she had heard through the grapevine that i was working freelance and putting Gardens to sleep…and would i have time?  and i said i don't know,  maybe,  and she said please call her if i can,  and i said that when i finish Bill's furniture redo,  and she became GIDDY,  saying you would do that too?  and i said, sure,  why not?  It's easy and she said she was  " THRILLED"  at the thought…

so…hmmmm.  

 

DSCN6241f

Who am I?   What

am I"

 

 

Posted in

19 responses to “In Demand”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    as a self employed person, I always say no first off and then if the person is amusing and has an interesting idea I say maybe but am never available straight away. That’s for gardening, we rarely take on new people and have not accepted any art commissions since the turn of the century, time is too short & there are so many dreams still to be made!

    Like

    Reply
  2. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I love this one.

    Like

    Reply
  3. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    I say yes way too many times even after vowing not to, but it is usually for a talent I have like sewing that they need because they have not a clue. And I do it as a gift of my time, for very dear friends or family. My “job” that I was paid to do and have “quit” and retired, no amount of money could make me go back. Because now my time is given on my terms of when and where and how much. “Free”lance gives you the control to say no even after saying yes.
    The kite wants to be free, but it knows without the string and the grounding by the woman, it would tumble and fall.

    Like

    Reply
  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Very good advice from Mo Crow … but yes the freedom to choose the what and when. You took a scary step not having a move date … Very scary but it looks like things will work out. Love the kantha stitch framing this piece.

    Like

    Reply
  5. Wendy@ Late StartStudio Avatar
    Wendy@ Late StartStudio

    Mo knows a thing or three.
    It’s lovely to be asked and lovely to be able to say no or yes or no or yes or maybe. No is my favourite.
    Of course there is a kite . . . to send a kite up is a way of testing the currents in the air.

    Like

    Reply
  6. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    I never say yes right away unless I would do whatever it is–free. If there needs to be money–then I hesitate. Mostly because if I say yes -I then might have to find a way NOT to do it. Awkward. And then I see how much they actually want ME to do it. Not just someone.
    And then I ask myself if I WANT to do it. If there is NEED to do it.
    I don’t like to clean but have always wondered if someone would pay me to IRON for them.

    Like

    Reply
  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    YOU ARE YOUR OWN WOMAN

    Like

    Reply
  8. Susan Hemann Avatar
    Susan Hemann

    I do love your work! I have a slight problem, every
    time I click on subscribe, a lot of code shows up and I don’t know what to do with it? lol

    Like

    Reply
  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    time IS short. and there are so many dreams

    Like

    Reply
  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    i’m glad you do…

    Like

    Reply
  11. grace Avatar
    grace

    the string and the grounding….these are the mutual
    connections, almost a thread of Pulse
    Free is such an interesting thing, isn’t it.

    Like

    Reply
  12. grace Avatar
    grace

    the Kantha is GOOD. and now, there is almost a date,
    so soon.

    Like

    Reply
  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    she does.
    ahhh….testing the currents….a kind of Science.

    Like

    Reply
  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    so many things factor in and then shift things around…
    things like house cleaning, ironing, these are Luxuries. These are things that we don’t want to do. We could, but don’t want to. So, if we have more money than we NEED, we are happy to pay someone else to do what we don’t want to do.
    Before “the phone call” today, i thought about that last “real” job i had…that being “director” of the Children and Family Program at the Minimum Security Prison here….working for the State of New Mexico…sounds good, but an enormous amount of work for so little pay. I had to schmooze with local Chamber of Commerce, drive to Santa Fe to meet with big wigs from the department of corrections, Legislature. Wear a brassiere. I got paid half as much as i do cleaning houses. And the whole point of it became, how do i spend my TIME and make a Living?
    i’m not good at ironing. Daughter said once that i iron out certain wrinkles and iron IN different ones and she was right.
    My maternal grandmother, the immigrant from Moravia, now the Czech Republic, made her living for herself and two daughters by midwifing when she could, otherwise, selling eggs and ironing. In Europe she was a registered nurse, a Mid Wife. and keeper of Records in the province she lived. We do what we find that works. She was not licensed in the United States. Was not even ever a citizen.

    Like

    Reply
  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    i look at these words. How they are in caps. I like them. and i think about what they might mean and how that changes

    Like

    Reply
  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh, Hey!, Susan…i don’t know how to help this. Once in
    California, i will live amidst the Tech Savvy and maybe
    they can change it, but for now….
    but i like very much that you are here today…Thank You….

    Like

    Reply
  17. julie Avatar
    julie

    If you go to Jean’s, be sure to check under the bed to see if the kleenex is still there.

    Like

    Reply
  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    no way. would stay OutSide in the Gardens.

    Like

    Reply
  19. joanne Avatar
    joanne

    Yes- outside in the gardens–!!!
    When we would go on vacation with Others Who Had Money, I would do my wash and then iron. The Others would say “Could you do this for me?”–Yes. I would iron most of an afternoon. Better than to listen to them complain of being bored. And the husbands would say–“She irons? Can she come home with us?” My husband would answer that I wasn’t that easy to get along with. He was right about that!

    Like

    Reply

Leave a comment