Good Morning.
The smoke from the awful wildfires in Canada has blanketed the Northeast once again. The air quality has become seriously compromised. There is a strange yellow haze since yesterday. It gave me a sore throat but I realize, no, I am not getting sick, I have the windows closed today.
I have to make changes to my format, "Things" have become entangled, a web of going that is not easy to follow and too costly to maintain. And honestly a pain in the ass. The Forever Zone will become an archive of all my old classes and will remain in the shop as such if anyone is ever interested. I will move them all there. And there are more to add. Right now the Zone is marked sold out until I clean things up a bit. Most of you here were in those classes anyway. A Forever Zone Newsletter will be posted soon.
I will not attempt to "teach" in any organized way behind a password going forward. Online. ( Maybe in person instead. Locally.) Free and Open will simply Be, Just Going. Here. Sharing is teaching. In the process of simplifying I will be slowly dismantling Flickr and the Old Blog, which are also scraps of self. I'll sort through and see what might be useful. Maybe talk about them. Let the rest go.
This site might be down now and then for clean up.
I have also considered just beginning again. You know, like Poof!
Anyway, hey ho. There's a few summer patches in the shop, the porch door installation has been delayed, I need to get some wood split, and I am off to make some banana pancakes. Have a good day.
Soul-O’s Choice on what scraps to make with next!
I love everything you posted today about going forward and not worrying about the past blogging! Tell your stories by voice, we are all ears!
Jude, everything you offer on this space is teaching for me, your written thoughts, the images of your work, and your words I love so much
I agree …. there is much to learn in just sharing.
And what can’t be resolved with banana pancakes! One of my go-to’s too. Such a joy to peek into your life & art, finding a kindred spirit in another world.
Hi Jude,
I love the way you approach your scraps…with so much care and attention… like a rescue home for discarded fabric.
And I really appreciate that you continue to post through thick and thin.
I do know, at least my version. 🙂 Your cloth story about using both sides made me smile….actually all of this made me smile. I am glad you are finding what seems to be right for you at the moment.
Hello Jude
I love the cloth stories . Enjoy hearing about cloth. Thanku 🌸
Have a lovely day .
Big hugs
Maria 🌻
👋
Soul -O and scraps — love it!.the important things in life.
I invested in an air cleaner for smoke. It also helped my allergies.
Downsizing mentally and physically gets me more to the basics.
Yeah, I brought a filter from the other place, I should use it.
Mine has been going for a long time. Too many bad air days of late.
Jude~ One story, among many – stitching and weaving a life ❤️
We have a bit of poor air quality here too. Big fire in Central CA. We aren’t too bad, but I can feel it in breaths and headaches.
Oh well. Carry on. I planned to salvage more of the scrapbook I cleared out, but got to the point where I KNOW that I won’t use much of it and it was just too much! Too much paper-image scraps, too many decisions, too many ideas. blah, blah, blah.
I’m simplifying.
Well, lots of paper here, can always be kindling.😂
🤣 good point!!
🔥
Haha : cloth crumbs for Soul-O to follow . . . Ohhhh YES I love the backside of fabrics often so much nicer in colour
Seems drawn..
Beginning again, with banana pancakes.😊
a soft beginning…
I really appreciate hearing about your career journey, and actually would love to hear more since I’ve been struggling with finding my artistic side coming out of a corporate creative job. It is refreshing to hear you talk candidly about your former job experience. What happened to you has recently happened to me, I got fired before my retirement age, and slow stitching has helped me heal a little but I’m still quite hurt by it all. Thanks for sharing.
Lots to say about it actually, and my cloth stories will lead me through. I got fired because the textile industry moved off shore, and my boss was an asshole, more to come… it did hurt but it was a gift in many ways.
I was absolutely thrilled to find a little house in your shop this morning that was perched on a joyous base of butterflies❣️ I’ve been working a lot with flutterbyes recently (so symbolic in so many ways) … it felt like kismet to have them waiting there. Thank you 🤗
YUMYUM to those pancakes!
and best wishes as you navigate technology challenges, eeeeek 🙃
Lots of undoing to do
Happy to be here with you, Jude, however it is you move along. Take care in the smoke! Rather white sky and strange colored sunshine coming in the window. Might have to limit Rhu’s outside time today. So far, not smelling it badly. What a world! 😺
Yeah, burnin’ up in so many ways.
I love starting over. Fresh outlook. New day. New project. New diet 😂. New stories. But only with old materials…
Repurposing self.
These things so easily become a burden. You’ve always modeled really smart tech choices so feel free to share. Flickr became useless when they put a 1,000 pic cap on non-professional accts. It pissed me off so much I canceled my professional acct (which they also started billing monthly, padding a few extra dollars in). But it was painful to cull out pics from galleries curated over more than a decade. Now I keep about 965 pics over there.
It’s all out of control. I will let it all pass through me again, see what takes new form and ditch it all.
Life is constant Change, adapting. Your art speaks volumes of this!
Yeah let it flow.
” create a life “………..Ah…yes….a welcome phrase for this morning from you, Jude. I feel honored to be here, as you are continually creating yours.
I’ve been holding on to old goals, I am feeling free from that
Here, poor, there, making life as best we can…always enjoy hearing from you in whatever way…chat, scraps and banana pancakes! And Soul-O.
All wonderful things!
( But not that awful wildfire smoke😟)
“poor” –????
Ai autocorrect
DAMMIT
sorry 😐
So annoying right?
Yeah, the smoke is awful. If it’s one thing we need it’s breath
What’s good for you is best 💙
I enjoy hearing more from you too!
💙✌🏼
well here we are.
Howdy!
Hey
Good morning Jude,
As you get more settled with your surroundings and comfortable. Things fall into a natural rhythm. Take your time, always enjoy your post and happy to see what your up to.
Pat
Feeling snail ish
Eventually a sail gets to its destination. Smallish is OK in my opinion.😁