Time Flies

When I made this little self portrait TIME was indeed on my side. But now, several years later, I don't feel the same. I feel like I waste more time than ever. This might be the lament of all "right brain" types as we do tend to spend time just sitting and staring at stuff hoping for an idea or at least a clue.

Today is no different from yesterday when I accomplished ZERO. I sat and did nothing for the majority of the day (and I consider time spent on the blog-o-sphere to be nothing) and then roused myself to prepare a good dinner for the guy who works for a living. The Chicken Marsala turned out very nice, indeed, and got compliments. I got to reduce the sauce two different times and then add butter to the reduction to make it thick and shiny. Chef stuff. I do love my "chef stuff". Next time I make this I'm going to wear my chef jacket and check pants.

These next two pictures are for my friend K. We are going to be making a girl baby quilt when I visit and these are two different ideas that I am sharing with K. This pile is with the pink Dick and Jane fabric and a few others I found while rummaging in the attic boxes. Cute little homespun plaids and stripes. So we could "fussy" cut out of the novelty print and border with the other fabrics.

Now this is a MUCH better choice as it is nearly finished. I have been making this piece for years and no one ever has a girl baby. Boys! I have lots more little squares we can add and more cute fabric to make borders. But you said no depression reproductions, right? Oh, well, I at least tried to limit the amount of piecing I will HAVE to do! Grumble.


Hanna posted her tutorial of an inspiration board on her site today (she made the little heart cards that I showed you yesterday with a link to her) and so I decided to take a picture of the board in my workroom. I do use pins to poke holes in my inspirations. (Ha!) And they are layered one on top of the others so it gets quite confusing. But I would miss it if I cleaned it up.

I DO have a very nice ornamental (and plastic) frame up in the attic somewhere which we found in the Sperrmull in Germany when my children were in the high school drama club. We needed a framed picture of Harvey the Rabbit on stage so I got to paint a reversable portrait. A man on one side and a large rabbit on the other. We saved the frame not the rabbit. I could paint this frame white and have a nice inspiration board to hang on the wall. I could. We'll see. And I liked that Hanna painted a bunch of other thrifted items white at the same time. I have always wanted to give all the rumbled items in the attic a coat or two of white paint. Trash to treasure, I think.

What's Good Today: LOVELY sunny walk with the puppy this morning and we have another planned after his nap. Sent G off to work with a nice cheeseburger lunch cooked by me and his dinner sandwich packed by me. I've had some caffeine. Brownies to be baked for his lunch tomorrow. Mangoes are finally ripe enough to cut into slices for my breakfast fruit the rest of the week. I'm trying to think of something to make for my dinner that is tasty.

What's Not: Our street is covered in slick ice. More snow coming tomorrow.