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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330391566560889212020-05-28T06:54:38.190+01:00Indianna DreamsIndiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-33917981338945483892016-03-31T19:09:00.001+01:002016-03-31T19:09:14.417+01:00Finish Along 2016 March

I'm calling 5 out of 9 a big success for me. They were all quite small finishes, but some were very time consuming.
This apron was made using the cross back apron pattern on the Purl Soho blog. I used some beautiful linen that I bought in a charity shop in Sweden. So it brings back very happy memories of my trip last year.

My round zip pouch finally got some binding and a cute charm. This is all hand stitched so it was something different and I'll probably make another in a similar style.

The socks that took forever .... About 5 years! But I love wearing them, so I've already bought more wool.

This fabulous thread catcher is from Poppyprint's book "Make it Take it" I love it and would like to make one for a swap too.

I used small pieces of all my favourite fabrics and stuffed with walnut shells .... Though I bought ground ones instead of crushed, so they are a bit fine.

Then finally Miss Maggie Rabbit had a pretty Liberty dress - just in time for Easter.

Hope you all had a great start to the year and managed to get some things finished too :o)

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-13737080126606448752015-09-09T11:57:00.001+01:002015-09-09T12:06:38.795+01:00Bionic Gear BagWell now I'm back from my travels around Scandinavia I've had time to fix my Blogpress account which wasn't working and finally do a blog post .... Just in case you are not on Instagram.

I've made a Bionic Gear Bag which is like a "go large" version of the Sew Together bag.
The embroidered bee is from the "Little Quilts" book by Sarah Fielke and I managed to use up some of the beautiful vintage sheets from the swap organised by Mary Emmens. I added the Angelina fibre to the wings and it gives them a lovely shine.
I'm not one for mini quilts as at the moment I've no wall for them, I prefer thinks that are useful .... Though Tim does now ask as to how many zip pouches do I actually need. But need has nothing to do with it, I just like making them! So my next one won't have a zip ... As this has 4 internal zip pockets.
Next I plan to make a Japanese loop bag as I'm enjoying my Kantha stitching but that will be another post.
I spent ages trying to decide on a binding and this was the best but as it was a fat quarter I didn't have a piece for the binding that was 24" and the pattern said to trim to fit the 22" zip, so I bodged it and trimmed the zip a little. I should have then put longer zip tab ends on but I'll know for next time.
I also ripped the zip out as the way it was layered in the pattern meant that I'd be hand sewing the binding onto the top edge of the zip, so I reordered it. Outer - zip - binding and then stitched, much neater :o)
I also made tab ends for each of the zips, I will make them a bit longer next time too but they do reduce the bulk in the side seam and give the bag a lovely finish.

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-90841218920487971812015-05-14T09:36:00.003+01:002015-05-14T09:36:39.639+01:00Rainbow Petals Quilt
I found the free pattern for this "Flower of Life" quilt on Craftsy and knew that I wanted to make it for the Instagram Mini Swap.
I originally thought that I would needle turn appliqué it, but it was taking too long and so I turned all the edges under and then machine appliquéd it. Raw edge with Bondaweb would have been much simpler and have a similar effect.

I traced the leaves with a Frixion pen on sand paper to stop them wriggling around too much.
Statistics
Machine Appliqué
Approx 20" x 20"

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-42669431579321009432015-05-10T18:36:00.000+01:002015-05-10T18:36:48.307+01:00Toadstool Embroidery PouchLe Challenge - Wood

When the theme of wood was announced we had just been Geocaching and I'd found this cute little wooden toadstool in one of the caches near to Stanton Drew, south of Bristol. In Geocaching, you can take something out if you leave something else behind, so we are leaving a variety of plastic zoo animals. If someone followed us around the same caches then they would have a whole set of animals. Stanton Drew has some standing stones and it's a lovely area to go walking, we saw honeycomb in a hollow tree that had come down with the wind....but Tim was stung by a bee before we had time to investigate it.
Anyway I thought the toadstool would look lovely on a scrappy pouch with some embroidery. I've had the Cotton Floss embroidery book by Nathalie Lymer for quite a while, so I embroidered the toadstools, adjusting the pattern slightly as I don't like satin stitch.

 Chase has a lovely free pattern for a scrappy mini iPad pouch on her Quarter Inch blog so I based mine on that, but enlarged it slightly.

I spent some time trying to get the scraps to look right, swapped a few in and a few out and eventually I was happyish. I find it quite hard get the scraps to play nicely together but I love the style. I enjoy doing the hand quilting which I marked out using the rounded edge of a metal knife as I've no Hera marker and Frixion pen leaves white marks on dark fabrics. The knife worked really quite well and I'll use the same next time. I put a dab of glue on the back of the wooden toadstool and then did some colonial knots through the holes to hold it in place. Unfortunately I snipped the corners off the outer pouch to make them neater when turning, forgetting that the hand quilting was fastened off in the corner, so hopefully a dab of glue will keep it from unravelling!
I'm also linking to Scraptastic Tuesday as this is such a great tutorial for using up 2" scraps.

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-47813296395908616112015-04-16T17:58:00.000+01:002015-04-16T17:58:06.840+01:00Messenger BagLe Challenge - Tradition

Sewing has been a tradition in my family for many years. My maternal grandmother was a tayloress and my mum is very good with a sewing machine too. They both had quite modern Singer machines for the time. My Grandma's machine had discs that slotted into the top to give a variety of different stitches. I still have it hidden away in a cupboard. That is unfortunately a tradition I've inherited is to keep everything, hoard it away ..... For just incase!!!!My mum made lots of my clothes and she would make soft toys to sell in my Aunts grocery shop, I especially remember the rabbits at Easter.

My Grandma made this doll for me about 40 years ago and my mum has just made me the rabbit that was in a recent edition of Love Patchwork and Quilting.

My dad was a telecom engineer and my Granddad worked in Layland Motors making trucks. My mum also worked in a bank, Both were good at maths and very logical.

I have inherited from all a love of maths and sewing! So I've combined the two when I was pattern testing this bag for Katy. I love the maths print fabric which was from my LQS and thought it was ideal to make a messenger bag from, with a little Melody Miller to add some sparkle.

The pattern was very easy to follow. I added an internal zip using Katy's tutorial and a longer strap as I'm tall and like to wear it across my body. If you pop over to The Littles Thistle Blog you can see a whole variety of bags that the other testers made and there is a link to Katy's Pattern shop too.
Also have a look over at Le Challenge to see what others have been inspired to make from the word "Tradition". Next month's word is "wood" .... Small childish chuckle, join in and you have a chance of winning $25 .... I'm keeping my fingers crossed x
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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-85978288114498499402015-03-16T12:58:00.003+00:002015-03-16T12:58:34.651+00:00Passion....fruit!
When the Le Challenge subject was announced as Passion for this month I immediately thought of Passion Fruit. Not having much fabric with passion fruits on them I thought it might be included on this Juicy fabric from Makower....there's everything there except passion which will have to be included in the Tropical fruits! I though the Nicey Jane stripe fabric matched brilliantly and was great for the draw string cover. I save the cut off bits from when I boxed the corners to finish off the draw string cord.

I made the bag for Jenny who is @patchworkmummy on Instagram as part of a #makeafriend swap organised by Di Willowbeck. The free tutorial for this Bento Box lunch bag is over on Ayumi's Pink Penguin blog. This is the third one of these I've made and I love the wipe clean oil cloth interior, though you can't see it in the photo I found some lovely Anna Maria Horner Loulouthi laminated fabric in House of Fraser that is ideal for these bags.

The bag I received from Jenny is absolutely awesome .... But I can't show you as the pattern is being published in a book in December. So unfortunately you will all have to wait ... though I can,t wait to see what is in the rest of the book if this zip bag is anything to go by :o)

I also made Jenny a spring Kin-cha-ku bag from a pattern bought from Chase, 1/4" mark blog. I love hand quilting these and I'm hoping to build up a few pieced bag outers so that I can quilt them while we are away in our van. The Lecien cheater fabric is brilliant for this and complements the Bonnie and Camille Happy Go Lucky yellow squares. Jenny has just set up an online fabric shop "Sew Smile Fabrics " and has a lovely selection of Miss Kate and some Moda scrap bags at a great price.

Both these bags were made from scraps that I have bought and that's why I had to do some pattern matching on the pear fabric but really happy how it turned out. Linking up to Scraptastictuesday too.

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-57683122344162899982014-12-24T18:55:00.001+00:002014-12-24T19:19:41.301+00:00Kin-Cha-Ku
At the last meeting in Exeter of the South West Stitchers I saw Kerry had a beautifully made little draw string bag for all her sewing bits and bobs. It was made by Chase from Quarter Inch Mark who also sells a pattern for the Kin-Cha-Ku in her Etsy shop.
The pattern was well illustrated with lots of photos and very easy to follow. I love the fact it was hand quilted as this adds a lovely texture to the finished bag.
I'm not sure how it ended up this colour as I started out with the scrap of the little deer and the Heather Ross mermaids. I put one row in upside down, but I left it as it was, as it was meant to be. I quilted it with Coats Dual Duty Hand Quilting thread as it was available from Trago for a reasonable £2.95. Only when I got it home did I find out that it's not cotton, but a polyester blend. It looks ok though.

I'll certainly be making some more Kin-Cha-Ku, which means draw string bag, in the New Year ...... Merry Christmas to you all .... And see you in 2015 xx

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-35094010851912376322014-12-14T15:22:00.000+00:002014-12-14T15:24:40.797+00:00Kantha Embroidery
Last month I went up to the West Country Quilt Show in Bristol. A fantastic show with lots of quilts on display and a variety of workshops to attend. There was also the usual trader stalls with lots of bargains .... But unfortunately not many people were there on the Friday that myself and QuirkyHannah visited.
I went to a Kantha workshop run by Angela Daymond from the Fenland Textile Studio. There was only two of us and Angela provided a wonderful bag of fabrics and a variety of threads.
All the fabric and lace, some of it vintage, had been dyed using natural dyes. These included red onion skins, tulips, turmeric, woad and one I might try ... Boiling fabric in an aluminium pan with a variety of berries. The aluminium from the pan fixes the dye.
Angela explained about the history of Kantha and how it was used to make a new cloth from old saris. Traditionally it is all running stitch with different areas of Southern Asia having a different style.
I found making this very relaxing as there wasn't a specific design to follow and the stitches don't have to be accurate or all the same length.

I knew I wanted to turn this into a book cover, but unfortunately it wasn't quite big enough and so I added the extra red onion skin piece at the bottom left and also the piece above it. I use a random cross stitch with some beautiful threads which I bought from the Cowslip Workshop christmas fair. The threads are hand painted to make them variegated in lovely colours. I used an old shirt for the inside of the cover and decorated it with some rarely used machine embroidery stitch. I added the lace as I can then tuck extra bits and pieces inside the cover.

The theme for Le Challenge this month is Ink and so I'm linking up with Nat and Lucy.

Location:West Country Quilt Show

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-55056729414195897032014-11-11T19:27:00.000+00:002014-11-11T19:27:37.956+00:00Patchwork Please Triangle Patchwork Box Pouch

I've loved looking through the Patchwork Please book and so a couple of months ago I attempted the Box Pouch using a Moda Scrap Bag. There was a sew along when the book first came out and so there was some advice on various blogs. Some said they made it without many problems ... But I found it quite difficult to make.
The book says that there is a 1/2" seam allowance, but the triangle pattern has a 1/4" seam. I sewed all of it with 1/4", this was probably where I went wrong!
I wasn't sure how to attach the top zip panel to the sides, but Alyce from Blossom Heart Quilts explains on her blog that you sew it on the same as you mitre the corners when doing a quilt binding ... that then made sense.

The outer came together ok, but then the lining didn't fit :o(

I left it the right way out for ages and it looked very nice ... But I couldn't use it. Then at the weekend I finally stitched an extra panel in the lining to fix this hole. It's still very badly fitting ... But once filled with stuff it is ok.

Today I went to "Stitch Club" and filled it with bits to finish the clamshell block for my Green Tea and Sweet Beans quilt .... Or Grean Beans and Rich Tea as we have been calling it!
I love the boxy look of the bag, but I won't be making another one for a while. I will try out some of the other box pouch tutorials first.

Linking up with #scraptastictuesday over on Leanne and Nicky's blogs.

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-26130062716255719072014-11-03T17:41:00.001+00:002014-11-05T16:32:35.288+00:00318 Patchwork Patterns

I've loved seeing blocks from the Japanese version of this book over the past couple of years. So when it was published in English I knew I had to buy it. I was even happier when I found out that Allegory from athousandneedles blog was organising a blog hop which included some of my favourite bloggers!

So I though I'd try the easiest blocks first and make them 4". As I don't have a scanner or access to a photocopier I took a photo of the block as square as I could and then put it into word before scaling and printing. I was also able to reverse the Ice cream cone to paper piece it. There are not many directions in the book as to 'how to do this' and so the blog hop has been useful.

All went well with the first two blocks, once I realised I'd have to add boarders to finish them off, and so being Halloween I thought I'd make the cat and cake at 5". I printed the pictures directly onto freezer paper which I'd cut to A4 size and they came out fine..... But the cat has beaten me.... It's just too small, so I've moved onto the cake but it's not finished as I wasted loads of time messing with the cat :o(

I will return to the cat after a bit more practice at freezer paper piecing as described on Kerry's blog. I have a plan to turn these into 3 nesting boxes using 4", 5" and 6" blocks. I need 12 finished blocks so I'll try again to finish the cake.
If you have this book....and some of you must as when I checked Amazon it said only 2 copies remaining, then why not join in the blog hop?
EDIT ... The book also includes a really useful alphabet and so they were quite quick to piece, although those pesky skulls gave me some trouble. in the end I was just happy that they were the right way up!

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-67029093416221717022014-10-27T15:53:00.001+00:002014-10-27T15:53:57.891+00:00Cat Rowe Textile Workshop

Last weekend I went along to South Hill Piecemakers for our Christmas workshop. We had seen samples of Cat Rowe's work at the Cowslip Christmas Fair last year and I had bought a lovely calendar.
Cat lives in Cornwall and usually teaches smaller groups, but 16 of us all had a fabulous day and hopefully didn't give her too much trouble! We also had a lovely shared lunch but I didn't get any photos of that.
This is what I achieved on the day, lots of Bondaweb and fiddley cutting and sticking. Cat had many useful tips about the best fabrics and how to best cut out the smaller parts. I had just started to stitch them down when it was unfortunately time to go home.

Cat provided 3 different Wintery designs or if you were adventurous then you could design your own. The free motion embroidery to do the writing was interesting! I had a go, but I did resort back to my walking foot for most of the stitching.
Below are 4 of the other ladies pictures.

I was super keen to finish mine as otherwise it would have joined the rest of the WIP's. So here it is ..... Framed too!

Then I thought I'd make a card from the robin and a mug-rug from the snowman design. These are now finished too.

So that's it for now, though I love all the pictures in Cat's calendar and I've been asked to make a Polar Bear!

By pure coincidence I bought a 'New Home' card from Waitrose and then found out it was a Cat Rowe design, lovely.

Location:Golberdon, Cornwall

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-6162491621490101052014-08-30T21:45:00.001+01:002014-08-30T21:45:48.107+01:00Paper Pieced Butterfly

I love all the paper pieced patterns by Tartan Kiwi and so I was to take up the Butterfly Challenge and create this. I received the Art Gallery fabric when Fiona de-stashed it and I knew it would be perfect for fussy cutting.
To fussy cut the wings I traced the relevant pieces onto plastic. I know you can buy proper template plastic, but I save bits of packaging or milk bottles.
This works well as the wings were the first piece to be placed on all 4 sections.
REMEMBER TO TURN THE PLASTIC OVER TO REVERSE IT!

I like to line up the initial piece using the window and I use fabric glue to keep it in place.

I use the post card method for folding over each section and instead of ironing the small bits I use the wooden thingamajig.

I wanted the bag to have straight sides and a nice flat bottom so I used the tutorial by Katy, I used the same measurements and a width of about 9"

I'm very happy with how it turned out.... Sorry about the bad final pictures as I did forget about the time difference!

You can see that it is 4" wide at the base. Lovely and spacious too.

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-23416207091800565812014-07-28T15:44:00.001+01:002014-07-28T15:44:15.677+01:00Hip Bee BlocksAfter returning from our travels in Spain and Portugal I had to play catch up with the HipBee blocks. Thankfully all the bees were very patient in waiting for them. I thought I should stitch them in order, but Rachel, Mamafairy had asked for flower blocks in 3 sizes and I'd just borrowed a quilt book from Quilt Club with this Rose of Sharon block....so that was first.

The colours Rachel sent me were suitable for a daffodil, so I found a pattern online, although it was for a 6" square block, so I added longer leaves and a bias stem, once I'd found my Clover bias maker.

I was also looking through Carina's new book Stitched Blooms and I thought that this embroidery pattern would translate beautifully into an appliqué. The book is great as it comes with a CD and so you can print off the design any size you like, 6" square. All of them were top stitched with Aurifil 40 wt, yummy.

I found these ones for Jill, The Nocturnal Stitcher, the hardest as I'd already seen some brilliant designs in the Flickr group, but with limited fabric, I also didn't want to mess up. I found a lovely tutorial on YouTube of how to piece improv curves and took it from there. Unfortunately my second block didn't have enough fabric to make 12" and so I added the best beach fabric I had. I think they look quite cute and will make a lovely picnic blanket.

These two paperpieced blocks were for Second Chance Tan for her mums quilt. I enjoyed piecing these, although it's difficult to judge how much fabric is required as paper piecing can be quite wasteful.

Yippee...all caught up and July is my month. I chose to make these scrappy mini stars using Cindy's tutorial on the Fluffy Sheep Blog. I bought 2 Lark Jelly Rolls...but unfortunately they are nothing like Moda ones. Some of the strips are barely 2.25". So I'm expecting to have to put lots of iron on interfacing on the back to stop little holes appearing :o(

We have one month left in the Bee and then unfortunately due to busy lives we are all buzzing off in different directions to do different things. It's been loads of fun though and thanks to Di of Willowbeck Designs for being a great Bee Mama and organising us so well.

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-78384384542340650212014-07-17T10:28:00.000+01:002014-07-17T10:28:23.595+01:00Embroidered Dachshund BroachLe Challenge - Small

I made this tiny broach from some Liberty Scraps and embroidered it using Aurifil 40 weight. French knots using fine thread were so tiny that they kept popping to the back of the fabric. Jodie who designs the lovely RicRac patterns had this cute Dachshund embroidery pattern as a free pattern available on Craftsy. It was supposed to be much larger, but I used the small illustration and he turned out about two inches long.
It might be a bit big to wear as a broach, but ideal to attach to a bag or put in a frame. I put him on the front of a card and sent him away to a friend who I know likes the Hens Teeth designs, so he is inspired by those lovely creations.
I really enjoyed making him and I can see myself making more in the future as they are ideal to make while away in the van. I just need to think what to print on the top tape...perhaps ... "I love sewing", with a sewing machine or a bobbin? Or "I love the beach"?

Linking up just in time to Le Challenge, why don't you link up with Lucy and Nat something tiny you have made, as there's a chance to win $25, I'm keeping my fingers crossed x
Ps sorry if you have read this twice as I put it on my travel blog "Liberty Blue Van" by mistake
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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-12696873228799954342014-04-15T16:48:00.001+01:002014-04-15T16:48:41.758+01:00Midge Net and Drawstring PouchLe Challenge - Bright

Just before we came away to Portugal in Libby I finally got around to making the midge net that we needed. We both seem to attract midges, with very big teeth!

I found the perfect BRIGHT neon blue spotty binding for the top and bottom. Sorry girls, it's a very tenuous link!!

We've known for ages that we wanted a midge net, but the problem was also how to attach it to the van. Amazon had the answer, little magnets with hooks, but with a 20kg pull, enough to go through the van carpet lining. Well it's now been tested and it works perfectly.

The net needed a cute little drawstring bag. I wanted it to be unlined and I found this brilliant tutorial on aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com. The bottom is like the base of a coffee bag, which gives it some depth, without having to cut the corners off. You might be able to see what I mean in the top photo. It was such a good tutorial that I made a matching one for my down jacket, that I picked up in T K Max for a bargain £16.
These are the first things that I've made from this camping organic Birch fabric and I was very disappointed that the brown dye, left marks in my green water when I ironed it :o(
I will be washing the whole lot, before I use it in anything else.

....and other news, I didn't finish anything in my finish along list, despite its length, but I did start something else new. I've been embroidering the Best Friends Forever block of the month and managed one a week, so far!

I'm also slowly stitching EPP diamonds into stars and love the pattern already. These are both great hand stitching projects to have along in the van with me and it's nice to have the time to sit and sew. Other British 'vanners' are complaining about the loss of the BBC transmission to their satellite dish...wot no East Enders!!! Not a problem for us though.

Location:Alvor

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-21914836862615675652014-03-15T19:27:00.001+00:002014-03-15T19:27:07.094+00:00My First Custom Order

Yipeeeeee...I've finally made some money from sewing. My friend ordered one of these to give to her friend as a birthday present. It's a drawstring bag for putting campervan thermal window mats in.... And I received real money for making it!!!
Though the fabric is a lovely design, it wasn't cotton and frayed like mad and so I did a French seam to make it last a bit longer. It was also quite difficult to photograph, so I strung it from the washing line!
Please ignore the ladder and the Canadian canoe and look at the pretty pink Camellia instead!

Linking up with Le Challenge....who's theme this month was order. I had several ideas as the theme left it open wide, but this one fitted the best. Amazingly the word order came up in two blog titles next to each other in Bloglovin! Nicole from Follow the White Bunny was blogging about the Order to stitch things in an embroidery, she has lots of interesting stuff, so pop over and take a look.

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Indiannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-7375658065759105142014-02-23T14:40:00.001+00:002014-02-23T14:41:35.950+00:00Lilipopo Glasses Case & EPP Diamonds
I must be getting old as just before Christmas I needed my first pair of reading/sewing glasses. They needed a nice case so I used the tutorial over on Lilipopo's blog. She has some lovely embroidery patterns and they are a style that I find adorable....plus she lives in Cornwall.
I used a tiny, tiny scrap of Liberty fabric for her dress and as Sarah is encouraging us to put our scraps to work this year then I am linking up at the end of the month.
I'm also just in time to link up with Amy, who is hosting TGIFF this week. I hoped to have this finished by Friday but had a bit of the sniffles that I brought back from our Valentine trip to Bristol.

Tim's Valentines card was found in a charity shop while hunting for vintage sheets. It's like a simplified game of Beetle.

Although I have loads of WIP's .... I seem to have started another one! I didn't feel like concentrating on much last week and as my very thoughtful friend Karen had bought me this for Christmas I had another look through it. I love the travel quilt idea as we are always off out and about in Libby our little campervan, blogged at LibertyBlueVan.

They are 2" diamonds and stitch up quite quickly. I've completed 3, but cut and basted quite a few more.

Though these all look coordinated, as I've used the remains of a Moda Scrap Bag, I think the rest will be quite scrappy. I don't have many scraps, as some of you know, I've been swapping, buying, begging and borrowing scraps from everyone...can you borrow scraps??? I'm not sure. Anyway it's a great project as you can see below the selvedge gets turned under and the maths geek in me worked out that the minimum strip width, to give 1/4 inch seam, is 2.23".... Do you remember SOHCAHTOA?

Years ago I found these in a charity shop and they are great for fussy cutting.

Jessica also has a link up on her blog, Lifeunderquilts for how many stars are finished My Total = 3

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Indiannahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-333039156656088921.post-43124561433523125582014-02-15T20:49:00.001+00:002014-02-15T20:50:58.591+00:00Kokeshi DollLe Challenge - The Rising Sun

When reading through the inspiration for Le Challenge I thought that I'd use the perfect piece of fabric that was in the Goody Bag from FQR London last year. It was a small piece of lovely Art Gallery fabric which reminded me of a kimono.
I used the pattern from Homespun Magazine issue 15.1 for the little Kokeshi Doll. The pattern had 3 strung on a string, but I only had enough fabric for one.

I used a different fabric to line her sleeves. Each of the dolls has a different hair style, but this was my favourite. She is only 6 inches tall but has a big personality!

The pattern is available in the Melly and Me shop and includes a cuddle size mama Kokeshi.

I would have loved to make something from this Japanese book that I got at the Cowslip Workshop Christmas fair for £1 ... But it will be more of a long term project as it's quite complicated. I googled the isbn number and eventually found out that this type of Japanese reversible patchwork is called Orinuno. I will have a go at it as it is all done by hand and so it will be a good portable project for me.

Linking up with Le Challenge ... Why don't you pop over and check out what Lucy and Nat have made, as well as the other links.
Also linking with the Slow Bloggers as I'm averaging less than one a month at the moment as Instagram seems so much quicker, but I appreciate that not everyone is on IG. Also I can't leave links on IG either.
Moira is hosting the Slow Bloggers this month.

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1. Martinique Heart jelly roll quilt
July 2000 not touched since then as I've not a clue how to quilt it!

2. Bang on the door hippo...I designed this from a card
2005 ish ... Might make it into a pin cushion!

3. tail feathers quilt...
Started January 2011 ... All embroideries finished and frames done. Need to make squares and log cabin border.

4. Warn and Washed Winter Fox Quilt...
September 2012 made the background on a Warn and Washed workshop but I'm not happy with the trees.

5. EPP ...
December 2012 ... All finished but needs making into a cushion.

6. Paper Pieced puffin and Penguin made from TartanKiwi patterns.
Autumn 2013 ... These are so cute that I really should use them somewhere!

7. EPP from Fat Quarterly Retreat ... I think this needs adding to and making into a cushion as I love the design.

8. Cathedral windows cushion.... This one is my friend Kath's ... As I swapped classes at the FQR mine is still just a pile of white squares that I prepared and took with me!

9. This is my Noodlehead super tote which I was making to take to FQR!

10. Quilt I started using Verna and these Monaluna fabrics. Also the campervan fabric is with the strips of stacked coins I made from the Verna ... Just don't think the two go together...or need to find a fabric to tie them in ... Also need to find the bag from the depths!

11. Camelot Quilt .... Just started hand piecing this!
January 2014

12. Green Tea and Sweet Beans ...also just started
January 2014

13. Rainbow Sprouts Quilt ... Collecting scraps to go with the rainbow and LV charm squares ... Slow progress.
September 2013

14. Scrappy Stars.... Proposed HipBees quilt for July 2014

15. Secret EPP with these Liberty Fabric hexies.

16. Make another bag to donate for the Quilt Club Raffle. Green flower/spot fabric and this pattern.

17. Secret project with great fabric for a thread catcher, etc.

Then there are quilts I have the fabric for...but not even started ... I'm trying to list everything just so I can keep track in my own mind and stop drifting around on the Internet and actually finish something!

18. Liberty quilt.... Slowly collecting fabrics.

19. Heather Ross fussy cut quilt. These are just some of the HR fabrics.

20. Vintage Sheet Quilt.... Last year it was going to be a giant star, then a Cherry Star....then a scrappy trip pattern and by the time I get around to it it will be whatever!

21. Cath Kidston star quilt ... Still need a couple of fat quarters!

22. Cover for ....... ....... Using Unicorn embroidery, which I will find ... Just had a look and it's not around, but did find....

23. Mums teapot cosy for August 2013 birthday...was waiting for insulated fleece, now needs making.

23. Last of the stuff I can find ... There is more hidden away in the depths... Socks ...
Summer 2012 ish!

Phew....I know there's more....but I can't find them and also don't really want to think about it now!!! And now I've had to edit the post as I forgot to add Katy's cute little button.

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Thanks to Lucy and Nat for running Le Challenge this year. When I look back through my blog posts it appears to be the thing that has kept me blogging this year. Like others my enthusiasm for Blogging has taken a dip but then I remember how precious online blog friends are and it keeps me going.

Cindy recently wrote a tutorial for a fantastic block when I was having trouble visualising how it was made....to me that is very precious. Thanks Cindy, I've made a block already and in this picture stolen from Fluffy Sheep Quilting Blog you can see how the hidden stars appear.

And on to precious number two.....
Sarah is expecting Little Beany and so she had an online Baby Shower which you can read all about here on her blog Narcoleptic in a cupboard.
I thought Sarah would like a little happy cloud and so I made this from a tutorial on Refabulous Blog. It was easy to follow....though I did sew all those little strips on the wrong way up the first time...I should follow the instructions!

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I'm a month late for the Thriller theme....I so wanted to make Bubbles, but suitable socks were not to be found in Biarritz! Then when the next theme was stripes....I thought I'd make Bubbles come to life.

There are lots of tutorial on line for making sock monkeys but the two I found most useful were these ones, the first for the clear pictures and the second for the excellent way that was suggested to stuff the tail with a piece of wadding to make it smoother.
Tutorial one
Tutorial two

Carefully select your socks, as the heel and toe colour will make a big difference. Some tutorials used the heel for the nose and others used the toe section. I tried both ways and I thought the heel section worked better.
There isn't that much sewing and could easily be made by hand. The hardest part was attaching the nose section.

I pinned all the bits in place first to get the right look.

I used Google images to see lots of different monkey expressions and I think he looks quite cheeky.

He was definitely grumpy when I asked him to wear his hat though!

Location:Bubbles the sock monkey

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 When Nathalie and Lucy announced that the Le Challenge this month was Heroes, I immediately thought about Super Ted. We still have a glow in the dark Super Ted and Spottyman on the wall in what was "The Girls" room. I'm not too sure what our visitors now think of them!

My partner, Sandy in Buenos Aires, for the Fab Little Pin Cushion swap received this super cute little bat from me. Though he is only small, one day he will grow and be as awesome as his hero Batman! (...poor link I know, but it's the best I can do!)
Sometimes I can search for ages on the Interweb for a suitable pattern, but as soon as I saw this, I knew I had to buy it. The pattern is by Maritza Soto @Soto Sew and available in her Etsy Shop. I reduced the pattern by 50%, if Sandy really wants to store pins and needles in him, then I hope she carefully puts them in his wings so as not to hurt him!

In return I received a fantastic Deep Dish Pincushion from Leslie, made in fabric by my hero...Heather Ross!

There is still time to enter Le Challenge. Link up is on the 15th September.

Click the link in the sidebar to look at all the inspiration on the Le Challenge blog.

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My mum's birthday is in August and she is visiting this weekend. I knew when Nathalie swapped me this butterfly fabric a while ago that my mum would love it....I just had to decide what to make with it. Charlotte who blogs over at Displacement Activity has a great tutorial to make a tea bag wallet, very easy and quick to make, but looks very impressive. Well I think so anyway.

This week there has also been some Bramble and Apple jelly making....after picking 3kg on a long walk. Last year I didn't make any until late September, so this is much earlier, but the berries weren't as juicy. I even squeezed the bag to get more juice, as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall suggested, but still not as much as last year.

The first lot of fabric has turned up from Sarah, from the HipBee and so now I have to put my thinking head on and make sure I don't mess up on my first month in the Bee.

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These paper pieced houses are from a free pattern on Craftsy. It was called holiday houses, as there was some snow on the roof and tree. I missed off the snow as Amy wanted a white background. Amy put a shout out for scrappy little houses for her wonky village. If you fancy making her a couple have a look over here and I'm sure she will be grateful.

I seem to have lost my blogging mojo since I was at the FatQuarterly Retreat in London. I think I was overwhelmed by all the talented ladies I met and by the amount of stuff I then had to blog about. I didn't speak much to "old" bloggy friends as unfortunately there just didn't seem time to talk to everyone. I made some lovely new friends and through visiting London I am now pleased to be in a bee..... With the HipBees....I just hope they will be patient and don't mind waiting a few weeks for their blocks if I'm away on my travels....which I will be soon. You can read all about where we go on my other blog.

So, a short and sweet post, linking up with Liz to Brit Thursday Sewing and Paper Piecing Friday with Kristy...must be Friday in Australia!

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These UR Priceless coin purses have been made for my sample swaps for the Fat Quarterly Retreat in London THIS weekend.

And as this one is a wonderful toffee colour, has chocolat on the front and "T" on the back...T for Toffee then my homework is done for Le Challenge. Hopefully Lucy and Nat will forgive me for being last minute again. If you have not seen Le Challenge yet then click the link in my side bar. The next challenge is to make something using Heroes as inspiration.....I have an idea....just need to get on with it!
These are the other purses and I have been lucky enough to do a little swap with Di @ Willowbeck for one of her wonderful Liberty book of Pockets. So Di the little bike one is on its way to you. Thanks.

I also must show you this fantastic quilt name tag that Ceri of Inspired By Felix made for me.......it has the cutest little fussy cuts and the back even says have a nice weekend on a large London Transport ticket....think I will still need my Oyster Card too though.

This is the one I made for Ange @ Heart of Charnwood

And this is what I made for ME ME ME....

Ok.....it was supposed to be a Noodlehead Super Tote......but the weather was just too nice so we went away for 3 nights and came back 10 days later!

Oh.....this is getting so long that if you want to see a picture of me or find out a bit more then please look back here at my Liebster Award post.
See you all soooooooooon.

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As you might have expected, TK and Rachel's big lag falls away as the teams make their way to Taiwan. Ron and Chris jump out ahead as a result of what certainly appears to be Chris successfully convincing a ticket agent to deny tickets to the other teams, leaving TK and Rachel, Nick and Don, and Nate and Jen in a big bunch once the teams get where they're going. In fact, TK and Rachel jump out ahead of the other teams in the group at a Roadblock featuring an underwater plunge, so they have time to run off and do a thoroughly unchallenging Speed Bump and still be right in the hunt as the teams head for a Detour offering a choice between a fire-lighting task that looks kind of complicated and a bumpy-rock-walking task that just seems vaguely uncomfortable. Naturally, everyone goes with the bumpy rocks, and Ron and Chris slide into first place with little difficulty. TK and Rachel pass Nick and Don at the bumpy rocks, and they finish second.
Have we mentioned it's Jen's birthday? It is. And all day, she makes these little "I can't believe you're being so mean to me on my birthday" noises as she and Nate return to bickering, arguing, bitchy form. So it's them and Nick and Don battling it out at the finish line, and to the absolute shock of everyone who's been waiting for their inevitably victory through clenched teeth, Nate and Jen do not finish third. They finish fourth, and they are eliminated, and they are definitely not going to win, and I recommend that you repeat that to yourself many, many times, because I'm here to tell you -- it won't get any less great. And that's not to even mention how great it is to watch a guy as old as Don go into the final three, or how great it is to watch a kid like Nick get a payoff for carrying two backpacks all the way around the world, or how great it is that Nate and Jen seem, in part, to be booted on account of their inability to stop arguing and think through a problem. Rarely does a team that sucks get tossed because they suck, but here it is. And it kind of seems like they might be breaking up at the end, but you know what? I doubt it.
Warm up for the finale, folks.
Previously on Spoilers And Foilers And Phil, Oh My: You may not know it, but there was a spoiler going around for the last couple of weeks that predicted an outcome so horrifying that many were tempted to stop watching, including me, which is why the last three recaps were completed by my clone, Miss Salli, who takes over any show when I believe my heart is about to be broken. She is also in charge of pretending to care about PBS documentaries by Ken Burns. I won't tell you what the spoiler said, but as you can see, I am back. Not that she'd tell you the truth if I weren't.
In other news, the teams went from India to Japan, with TK and Rachel striking out (so to speak) on their own and ending up sucking several hours' worth of jet fumes as a result. Don and his old-man bones started to get a little more seriously tired, and Nick mastered the Two-Backpack Run, because his seventy-year-old grandfather was almost as reluctant to tote his own gear as Flo. Her legacy of goldbricking is tarnished! Nate and Jen once again wanted desperately to come in first, and they were once again denied -- this time by a late-surging Chris and Ron, who have been doing a lot better since Ron stopped bouncing basketballs off her head. TK and Rachel wound up about three hours behind the pack, but they avoided elimination. Instead, they were promised a Speed Bump during this next leg that would force them to play a little harder to avoid coming in last. Four teams left. Three essentially don't suck. What are the odds? Oh, reality television, you fickle bastard. "Who will be eliminated...tonight?" Aw! Old-timey introduction! Yea Verily, Phille Has Blowne The Show's Wee Wadde.
Credits. I barely remember Shana and Jennifer. It's like they were on three seasons ago. I feel like they lost on the same night as John Kerry. I feel like one of their tasks was digging up dinosaur bones that were still warm. [BOMP.]
Back from commercials, we are in Osaka, Japan. Phil welcomes us back to Tempozan Park, where the teams checked in for the last pit stop. It has a Ferris wheel, which can only be associated with happiness and good cheer...unless you've seen Atonement. Or Big. Obviously, Phil wonders whether TK and Rachel can make up their three-hour drag (no pun intended), and further wonders which of these four teams will not be making it into the final three.
7:02 AM. Ron and Christina. I am more tired of Ron's parade of "Who's Your Daddy?" shirts at this point than I ever was of any hat. (Olde Schoole Hatte Joke! For Olde-Tymers!) Because, really, "Who's Your Daddy?" was half-funny exactly once, and after that, it became not funny nine times, so Ron's account is running a serious deficit. The clue tells them to take a taxi to "the building with a hole in it" and find the Floating Garden. Phil explains that this clue should lead them to the Umeda Sky Building, which has the aforementioned "hole in it." (Awesomely, the first time I watched this, I missed the audio and wrote down the name of the building, from the on-screen caption, as the "Umedasky Building," and I was thinking, "Man, 'Umedasky' doesn't sound like a very Japanese name; I wonder what's up with that." I AM A GENIUS.) Based on the pictures, I'm not sure I think that building has a hole in it so much as it has a decorative feature with a hole in it, but...all right. Once they get there, they have to figure out that the "floating garden" is a rooftop observatory where the clue box is located. Ron and Chris get a cab, and as they get going, she talks about how proud she is of the fact that her father has stopped berating her. On the one hand, relatively speaking, I agree with her. On the other hand, it's...kind of depressing how all she wants is a break from the screaming. She says it's all about progress, though, and she knows her dad is genuinely trying. "This is the race to the final three," Christina says somberly in the cab, and Ron unfortunately does not respond with "That's so clichéd."
7:15 AM. Nate and Jen. They get in a cab, and Jen announces that it is her birthday.


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There is a pending bill in the Illinois House (HB 3533) which would require persons who have been granted a driving permit or license reinstatement after having been convicted of a second offense DUI to drive for five years with a BAIID, instead of one year as is currently required.
Here is a link to the bill's status:
Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall require the use of ignition interlock devices for a period not less than 5 years on all vehicles owned by a person who has been convicted of a second or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, other drugs, intoxicating compounds, or any combination. Provides that a person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of driving under the influence of alcohol, other drugs, intoxicating compounds, or any combination, or where the use of alcohol or other drugs is recited as an element of an offense, may not make application for a driver's license until he or she has first been issued a restricted driving permit by the Secretary, and the expiration of a continuous period of not less than 5 years following the issuance of the restricted driving permit without suspension, cancellation, or revocation of the permit, or violation of a regulation requiring use of an ignition interlock device.
Is this a good change to the law? I think it is extreme. In order to obtain a restricted driving permit or reinstatement after a second DUI, the petitioner must prove that he or she has completed alcohol treatment and is not a danger to the public. The Secretary of State scrutinizes these cases and do not reinstate as a matter of course.
Five years is a long to time to have to have a BAIID in your vehicle. They are expensive, and it is embarrassing to have to use one. Plus, the BAIID is not easily removed (for good reason), so every one in the family who uses that vehicle has to go through the same embarrassment and humiliation as the repeat drunk driver.
For the story behind the bill, here is an article from by Kevin Craver of the Northwest Herald:
Joel Mains got a call last November from the Palatine Police Department that would make any father's blood boil.
The drunk driver who killed his stepdaughter a decade earlier in a head-on crash was picked up Nov. 15 – yet again – for driving under the influence.
Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Weese was driving back to her Wonder Lake home on May 22, 2003, when James Stitt, then 23, swerved into the oncoming lane on Route 72 near Gilberts and struck her head-on. Weese died two days later, just weeks before her 18th birthday and her graduation from Larkin High School in Elgin. She was to be the maid of honor in her sister's wedding.
Stitt was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, was released in 2009 and got his driver's license back in January 2013, according to records. He had been convicted of DUI twice before he killed Weese, and was driving with a suspended license that night.
Drunk-driving offenders who are eligible to regain driving privileges under Illinois law must have their cars equipped with an ignition interlock device, which will not start a car if the driver blows more than .025. But that device comes off with the end of a driver's suspension, and even repeat offenders under state law can get it removed after 12 consecutive months of driving without the device ever detecting alcohol.
A law now sailing through the General Assembly will increase the time and the steps that repeat DUI offenders must take to get their driver's licenses back. And it started when Mains and his family reached out to their state lawmakers – including the one Mains had unsuccessfully tried to unseat in the election weeks prior.
With the initial aggravation, the kids and I talked about it, and we were all pretty upset and wanted to do something," Mains said.
State Rep. Barbara Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake, wanted to do something as well when she received the email from Mains, who was her Democratic opponent for the 64th House District she has represented since 2012. They worked together to craft House Bill 3533, which is before the Illinois House for a vote.
"Something is severely wrong with the law when somebody who has multiple DUI convictions, and murders someone, is driving [without monitoring] when they have a problem with alcohol," Wheeler said.
House Bill 3533 prevents a repeat DUI offender from applying to the secretary of state's office for driver's license reinstatement until the person has gone for five years on a restricted driving permit – which limits car usage to work, grocery shopping, school and emergencies – without incident. It also increases to five years the amount of time that a repeat DUI offender has to drive with an ignition interlock. Such devices are installed at the driver's expense, come with monthly monitoring and rental fees, and are regularly checked by state authorities for compliance.
The bill passed the House Transportation: Vehicles and Safety Committee on a 9-0 vote March 18. Mains, a firefighter paramedic with Downers Grove, had a large contingent of his fellow firefighters sitting in the audience in a show of solidarity when he testified on its behalf. Besides being touching, Wheeler said, it made an impression – three of the committee's members have signed on as co-sponsors of the legislation.
When it passes the House, the bill will go to the Senate, where Mains' state Senator, Republican Pam Althoff, R-McHenry, will carry it.
"This is a nonpartisan issue. Families of all makeups get affected by the thousands, and people of all types cause this," Mains said. "We didn't want this to happen to any other family."
Weese was the first DUI victim in Illinois honored with a memorial sign from the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Mains and his wife Diane became actively involved in the group Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists, and Joel Mains now sits on its board. Diane, Weese's biological mother, died in 2006.


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Beds: 4
Baths: 2
Sqft: 922
Sqft lot: 24,000
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Property Type: Single Family - Detached
Year Built: 1950
Neighborhood: La Mesita
Days On Website: 675
MUST SEE!! WITH SEPARATE RECORDING STUDIO. 2 BED/1 BATH in each unit with plenty of extra land in the back of the property. Studio space has features include -- John Sandford built control room and tracking room. Two ISO booths with floated floors (no parallel walls). Each booth is built on a covered sand floor for extra deadening. Rooms are professionally tuned. All studs sit on neoprene rubber with separate slabs. Control room is built on a raised wood floor with slab that sits on sound diffuser. 8 inch air gap between rooms. Studio is block wall construction with double drywall interior and 1/4 inch air gap through out. Professionally installed double glass window set at 45 degrees. Security doors, steel doors and motion detectors installed. Outside patio with plenty of parking.
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The Most Powerful Reality Transurfing Technique
In this post, I will share with you the most powerful reality transurfing technique that will absolutely change your life forever.
Hi this is Sunny from Personal Mastery Quest and today I want to show you a reality transurfing technique that can change your life very quickly.
Here it is:
The world is a mirror that reflects your relationship to it. If you tun your back against the world, the world will turn its back on you. If you fight the world, the world will fight back. Once you end the battle, it ends.
You might not understand the magnitude of this statement yet so let me explain it to you more clearly.
The world is a mirror that reflects your relationship to it.
Meaning your life will literally change when you change the way you look at it; when you change the lens through which you look at it.
Your world will change according to how you react to what is happening to you. When you end the battle against the world, the world will literally fall at your feet…
When you train your ability to react positively to everything that is happening to you, you will change your perception and your perception is what controls and determines the outcome of every single event in your life.
When things don't go according to your plan, your mind freaks out. Your mind produces all sorts of unsettling, fearful thoughts fueled with anxiety.
This makes you lose control over your actions and you start to act according to those negative thoughts and emotions.
You begin to have contracted awareness and start to look at the world as a threatening place and you start to fight against it.
Unconsciously YOU MAKE A CHOICE to live in a hostile world full of negative events always happening to you.
And by law, the world reciprocates your choice and becomes hostile.
But what if I told you there is a better choice.
What if I told you that if you changed the way you reacted to the things that are happening to you, the world you look at will change. What if I told you that you don't have to fight and struggle to live a beautiful happy life?
See your mind freaks out because it looks at uncertainty with fear. It looks at everything that doesn't happen according to plan and labels it as bad.
But your mind is not connected to the alternatives space(the realm of all possible events) and therefore it has no way of predicting what is to come in the future.
That's why it labels things as good or bad or failure and success solely on if they were a part of its original plan.
But let me ask you this question, how can the mind construct a plan to take you somewhere you have never been before?
How could it possibly know if an event is good or bad for your future?
Simple, it can't.
Only the heart can because it is directly connected to the alternatives space. Your heart knows how to get you from where you currently are to where you want to go.
That's why your heart does't freak out when an apparent failure takes place. It knows that everything that is happening is part of the plan and is getting you to where you want to go.
With this knowledge, when something happens to you that wasn't a part of the mind's plan, you can attune to the power of the heart and retain your innate ability to create a positive abundant life.
Always remember, the outcome of the situation is dependent on NOT the situation itself, but instead your attitude about the situation.
If you fight against the situation, the situation will fight back. If you accept and allow it, and look at it as positive, it will reward you.
Here are two ways you can practice this principle in your life.
#1: A reality transurfing technique called coordination.
This is how you do it: Anytime you get "bad" news, react positively.
This will enable you to break through the negative energy of the pendulum, retain your freedom of choice, and transform that event into something positive for your future.
This will absolutely change your life and your perspective quite quickly. You can even practice this with little things throughout your day.
Anytime something happens that irritates you or frustrates you or ignites anger from within you, you have to wake up and realize what is happening right then and there.
You have to realize that a destructive pendulum is trying to provoke you and trying to hook on to you. In that moment you have to decide to stop playing the pendulum's game and break the rules of its game by not reacting the way it is expecting you to react.
When you react positively to something "bad" that happens in your life, you transform that event into something positive. You won't be able to see just how this will happen, but it will.
Additionally, you gain the energy that the pendulum used to try to provoke you and you retain that energy which makes you stronger.
There are two branches to every event that occurs. Each branch represents a life line; one positive and one negative.
When an event occurs in your life and you fight against it and perceive it to be negative, life will fight back and most definitely transform that event into event into something negative in your future.
Because of this you will suffer, be in pain, and become stuck in the energy of that negative branch life line.
But if that same event occurred in your life and you accepted it just as it was and perceived it to positive, life would have reflected that relationship and transformed that event into something positive.
By giving a positive meaning to that event, you would have went onto the positive branch life line where positive energy lies in abundance.
See it's not at all about the event that occurs itself but purely how you relate to that event. Practicing this can become a superpower for you that will transform even the smallest frustration into something positive.
#2: Whenever you see something missing in your life, try to find the cause of it within yourself and heal that part of yourself.
For example, if you think that people don't love you enough and don't treat you well, take a look at how you treat yourself and truly consider if you show yourself as much love as you want others to show to you.
Often times, we are so self critical that the harsh lens we look at ourselves through is projected onto how others view us. Other people will look at you similarly to how you look at yourself.
So if you are constantly hard on yourself for your character traits and your negative qualities, other are more likely to be hard on you for them too.
But if you neglect your negative qualities and focus on appreciating your good qualities, others will do the same.
This is the way to fix the way others look at you. Change the way you look at yourself.
How can you expect others to love you and admire you if you yourself are so hard on yourself and criticize yourself so much!
Therefore, love yourself as much as you want others to love you. Treat yourself as well as you want others to treat you. Don't be self critical and hate your negative qualities. Accept and appreciate yourself the way you are and focus on your strengths.
Hope this helps, good luck!


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14/12/182019 Calendar
We have launched our 2019 desk calendar. The calendar this year continues our close association with the sea. South coast harbours is the theme for this year. All the photographs within this calendar are from harbours along the south coast, west from us at Selsey Bill. Enjoy these relaxing views over the sea to help you unwind during the day.
The calendar is of course printed by ourselves here in Selsey near Chichester. We have again chosen to print the calendar on an uncoated material on our Eco UV litho printing press.


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Framingham Democratic Town Committee
Framingham Green Community Room
136 Maynard Rd. , Framingham, MA 01701
Meeting Minutes – Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 7:00 PM
Call to Order: Chair Beverly Hugo called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM
Announcements & Updates: Our last meeting was in June. Since then we have hosted two candidate debates and held our annual BBQ. We congratulate Maria Robinson for her victory in the primary election to fill the seat of the late State Rep Chris Walsh. A Co-ordinated Campaign Office is now open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 1071 Worcester Rd., 4th Floor. There is elevator access; the office is handicapped – accessible, including restrooms on the first floor. A memorial service for long-time FDC member Stephanie Mercandetti was held on September 22 at Cushing Park. A park bench and a tree were dedicated, and a scholarship established in memory of Stephanie. Jay Gonzalez will speak at the First Church at 6 Eliot St in Jamaica Plain on Oct 1 at 6:30 PM. See Larry Stoodt for information. Former FDC Secretary Barbara LeDuc is filling in this evening for Secretary Barbara Fontes, who is at her daughter's wedding this evening. Best wishes to Barbara Fontes and her daughter!
Attendance: Members: Lori B. Bornstein, Craig (Chris) Broyles, Robert Case, Patrick Dunne, Kurt Fusaris, Gwendolyn Holbrow, Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, Beverly Hugo, Michael Hugo, Barbara LeDuc, Christopher Lorant, Joan Rastani, Maria Duaime Robinson, Farooq Mirza, Margareth B. Shepard, Norma Shulman, Cheryl Tully-Stoll, Larry Stoodt, Parwez Wahid, Mel Warshaw. Lifetime Members: none. Associate Members: James DeSimone, Amanda Northrop, Summer Shaud, Amanda Shepard, Adam Steiner. Youth Members: none. Candidates / Officials: Margareth Shepard, Cheryl Tully Stoll. Guests: Beth Amslei, Andrew Harding, Robin Lucia, Katie Murphy, Stephen Roche, Nora Watts.
City Council:
– City Councilor Cheryl Tully Stoll noted that the recreational marijuana plan has been settled. Six outlets have been permitted, but not that many will open; the permissible zoning areas are in the Route 9 or Route 30 areas. One medical marijuana site is currently open and another is due to open shortly. City Councilor Adam Steiner agreed with Cheryl's assessment.
– City Councilor Margareth Shepard noted that a recent District 7 Priorities meeting identified traffic, sidewalk repair, downtown crime, the need for a Community Center as priorities. Margareth is soliciting opinions on the Mayor's appointment of police Chief Trask; he is viewed favorably.
School Committee:
– Beverly noted that information on the Fuller school debt exclusion will be included on the next agenda.
– Maria Robinson is the Democratic nominee to replace the late State Representative Chris Walsh on November 6.
– Chris Lorant is running for one of the two male Disability Seats on the Democratic State Committee. That election will be held November 14. Chris is running to advocate for accessible conventions and education of disabled persons about available assistance in the voting booth. To support Chris, please mention our local support to members of the DSC.
Coordinated Campaign Office:
The office needs canvassers and volunteers. It will be open Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 to 8 PM, Saturdays 10-4 PM and Sundays 11 to 5 PM. Quentin Palfrey, candidate for Lt. Governor, will be at the office on Saturday Oct 6 at 10 AM.
Ballot Question Discussions:
( n.b. The Mass. Democratic Party's official position is to vote yes on all three ballot initiatives)
Question 1: Law Proposed by Initiative Position: Patient Safety Act, see below
Question 2: Commission on Limiting Election Spending and Corporate Rights. Mel Warshaw.
Question 3: Referendum on an Existing Law: Transgender Anti-Discrimination, A yes vote would keep in place the current law.
re Q2: the MA Democratic party is advocating for a "yes" vote on Q2. Mel noted that we should establish a commission to overthrow Citizens' United. However, the danger in opening a Constitutional Convention is that many unrelated issues/changes can be introduced.
re: Q3: the MA Democratic Party is advocating for a "yes" vote on Q3, i.e. to support the current law which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in places of public accommodation.
re: Q1: the MA Democratic Party endorsed a "yes" vote on Q1: Speaking in support: Katie Murphy, previous employee of BWH & MWMC, & currently on the Board of Directors of the Mass. Nurses Assoc. Speaking in opposition: Andrew D Harding, Acting CEO and Chief Nursing Officer of MWMC, a graduate of St Anselm's College, and Editor, J. Emergency Nursing. There was a 15 minute presentation by each speaker, followed by many questions from the audience.
Norma noted there will be two forums on Question 3 coming up.Committee Reports:
Civics Education: Pat Dunne & Adam Steiner: Framingham had a 21% turnout for the recent primary election. The committee is assembling voter information. The Fuller School vote will be held 12/11/18.
Communication: Mike Hugo may reactivate the newsletter; please send items for publication to Mike.
Legislative & Advocacy: Kurt Fusaris prepared a demonstration of Ranked Choice Voting concerning favorite cookies. The subcommittee also discussed moving Mass primary elections to an earlier date, upcoming environmental legislation & actions, and the Indigenous Peoples act.
Outreach: Margareth has been preparing voter information in Portuguese and English. A version in Spanish is under construction.
Programming: Rozzy Hooper-Hamersley discussed programming for 2018-2019. She will additionally email an updated version of overall proposed programming for the calendar year.
Secretary's Reports: Barbara LeDuc: Previous reports will be presented at our next meeting.
Treasurer's Report: Larry Stoodt
The March 28 balance was $3,899.50. Income of $445.98 and expenses of $514.47 yielded a current balance of $4,276.99.
Chair Beverly Hugo noted that the FDC needs a new banner. Barbara LeDuc made a motion (seconded by C. Lorant) to approve up to $250 to pay for a new banner. The motion passed. Beverly will order a new banner.
FDC needs to elect a new voting member to replace State Rep. Chris Walsh. Amanda Northrop was nominated by N. Shulman (seconded by M. Hugo). A motion to close nominations passed and Amanda was elected by acclamation. Congratulations to Amanda!
Chair Beverly Hugo made a motion to table a change in member status until our next meeting.
Rozzy Hooper-Hamersley noted that there will be a new format for charitable donations. A list has been assembled and each month there will be a speaker for the subsequent charity. This was approved at this meeting.
Margareth Shepard noted that BRACE will be our chosen charity for our Oct 21 meeting. BRACE needs money to fund the 2018 Election Guide plus non-perishable food items and hygiene products.
Mike Hugo noted there is uncertainty as to whether we must vote to approve new Associate Members. The state charter indicates this may be true, but our current Bylaws may be ambiguous. A vote was taken and approved to ask Mike Hugo to contact MA Party Chair Gus Bickford to determine the correct actions and report to us next month.
On Oct. 28, the League of Women Voters will host a Candidate & Ballot Question forum.
All business being concluded, a motion to adjourn passed; adjournment was at 9:15 PM
** REMINDER ** Please give as generously as you can to the work of BRACE (see above) with either cash/check donations made out to BRACE or non-perishable food items and hygiene products.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara LeDuc, Secretary Pro temp


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Press Release - Brussels, 30 November 2018
The results of EuroCIO's Supplier Satisfaction Survey contain a 'wake-up call' to the major vendors - SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, Google and Amazon -, revealing a substantial and increasing level of dissatisfaction among CIOs/business users with the vendors' pricing strategies and inflexible licensing /contract management models. These vendors dominate the market, but score low on flexibility and user satisfaction, and users criticise their commercial practices.
The survey reveals a slowdown in cloud adoption and deployment. About 20% of the client base of the main cloud providers are opting to scale down their cloud-based services. Furthermore, recent changes in pricing models generate additional licensing costs and are forcing CIOs/business users to investigate exit strategies. Use cases are being analysed in order to guide EuroCIO members with alternatives from open source application platforms.
For Belgium, Beltug has been involved in this study. The licensing policies of the major software vendors are a priority for the Belgian CIOs.
Problematic practices revealed
EuroCIO members list the following examples as some of the most problematic practices by SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Google.
SAP, with its new business and license model and indirect access approach, receives the most mentions for problematic practices. The new "non-human"-metric (Indirect/Digital Access) is a major aggravation for EuroCIO members, as it generates cost increases linked to unbalanced and non-transparent conversion rules.
It also shows the lack of a clear definition for new metrics. VOICE, the German CIO Network, has filed a complaint with the Bundeskartelamt regarding SAP's new license model for indirect usage.
Oracle's inflexible and non-transparent contracts, lack of customer engagement and hostile audits are among the most often mentioned frustrations for the CIOs, and have been an issue for some years. The absence of clear guidance on Oracle processor metrics calculation when deploying virtualisation makes it nearly impossible to accurately calculate costs.
More recently, the change in Oracle's Java license policy came as an unpleasant surprise to the CIOs/business users. The vendor introduced a "dual licensing" policy with a new open-source freemium version released every six months for developers (short cycle), and longer-term commercial licenses (3-year LTS) with support for business customers. The financial impact of these pricing policy changes for EuroCIO's large corporation members, as well as SMEs , results into significant higher costs (going from a free license to a paid one).
The foremost criticism for Microsoft is that the vendor doesn't offer clients adequate tools to control their capacity and costs in the Azure Cloud, making it impossible for users to accurately forecast and control the amount of money they spend. Microsoft announced last summer that all purchase orders will be handled through the new platform. By 2021, all on-premise products and services will be in the Cloud platform catalogue. On-premise solutions are already discouraged by higher pricing. With the new licensing-per-core model, yearly costs can increase by 50%. Another grievance is that in Microsoft Azure EA, downscaling is not an option: customers must commit to a certain capacity.
As a result, contrary to the 'cloud promise' of easy up- and downscaling and 'pay per use', flexibility is non-existent. In fact, instead of having licences as a token of rights and costs, clients receive an unfulfilled promise of flexibility, which in reality means handing over all controls, and data, to Microsoft.
Finally, Google scores lowest on data protection/data ownership according to the CIOs that took part in the survey. For a company that handles so much personal data, this is a serious concern and should motivate Google to improve its game.
The impact of an uncompetitive market
Many of these practices are textbook examples of the impact on customers of overwhelming market power in the hands of one or very few supplier(s), combined with prohibitively high costs for changing supplier. Many of the incumbent, major software vendors show signs of monopolistic behavior. Although cloud market is now more competitive with a broader range of vendors, some of the fast-growing 'new kids on this block' are trying the same tactics, or, alternatively, are bought by incumbents and brought in line with their market domination policies.
On the other hand, the higher costs of remaining with the existing vendor strengthens the business case for transferring to another supplier. By sharing experiences on how to exit from major vendors, EuroCIO and the national CIO Associations are helping their members to reduce transfer costs. Even so, it remains difficult to avoid ending up in a similar lock-in situation with the new vendor, due to the lack of a large and competitive market.
Results discussed with EC DG Competition
Following the first edition of the survey in 2016, this second Supplier Satisfaction Survey collected feedback from more than 100 'user' companies. The results and the trends were discussed in September 2018 with the European Commission's DG Competition. EuroCIO has requested that these vendor practices be added to the political agenda, and that an approach to the lack of alternatives be further investigated.
EuroCIO is available to speak with vendors individually to analyse their own position in the market in the domains of services, quality, delivery, customer engagement and license /contract management practices.
EuroCIO Contact: Emmanuel Gaudin and Thomas Endres, Co-Chairmen EuroCIO, firstname.lastname@example.com
More info on EuroCIO can be found on eurocio.org.
EuroCIO is a not-for-profit association representing the business ICT users' needs and cooperates with various departments of the European Commission. It counts over 1000 member organisations, represented by their highest IT manager or CIO. It also partners with European national level organisations including
AICA (Italy)
Beltug (Belgium)
Cigref (France)
CIO Club (Bulgaria)
CIO Council (Romania)
CIO Platform Nederland (the Netherlands)
DANSK IT (Denmark)
Hellenic CIO Forum (Greece)
TIVIA (Finland)
TUBIYAD (Turkey)
VISZ (Hungary
VOICE E-V (Germany)


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This did not happen. I woke up walked outside to see how it was and it was sooooo windy I almost blew off the sidewalk. Not to mention the wind was bitter cold. WHAT THE HELL??!?!? Us WI people need some nice weather! This winter has been hangin' around way to long.
I admit to being cranky about this. A little put out. I thought ok lets make the best of it. So little man and dear husband and I went outside attempting to find a side of the house that was slightly less windy. My son promptly fell in the garage and got a bloody nose. Parenting fail. He is just learning to walk and is pretty unsteady at times and I was right next to him, but not quick enough. I still feel bad.
I laid him down for his nap after cleaning and cuddling him for a while. I sat at the table and cursed the weather. An hour later I walked outside and it was slightly less windy and much warmer. I thought ya know what lets try this again.
Family run!!
Despite the attempting to get out of the jogger he had a blast and it was nice to get out with our dog as a family. We stopped at the farm, and little man got the enjoy a tractor ride.
Now we are going to grill out. Things didn't turn out so bad after all. I just needed to pull it together and make whatever situation arises work for my little family. I'm so lucky that I realized it before wasting a whole day.


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Has anyone complained to you about the weather lately? When the temperature gauge reaches 100 degrees + you know that summer is here! Here in our sultry mid-Missouri summers it can be difficult just breathing when humidity levels read the same as the temperature.
My personal favorite is just around the corner- fall. The crisp air and vibrant fall colors make for a rich day of living. Besides the fashion display of color, the tell-tale sign of fall is seeing your breath. When you walk out into the cool crisp morning air and you put the keys into the ignition, frosty air wafts up in front of your face each time you breathe. You know it's fall! We normally don't "see" our breath. But when the temperature changes, we see visible evidence that we are "alive".
God has a record of using breath to initiate life and great events of His choosing in Gen 2:7
the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Gen2:7(NIV).
God used His very breath to give life to Adam. This life would not have had a soul unless God had done this. We are living souls, living spirits inside a shell of clay. God caused us to breathe perpetually until life is finished. There is life in the breath.
When Jesus had gone through the crucifixion and arose from the grave, He appeared to His disciples in a room in which they were all gathered. He was there to commission them for service in His Kingdom. Just as God understood the importance of breathing into Adam for life, Jesus instituted His church with the breathing on of His Disciples.
21 Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. John 20:21-22 (NIV)
Theologians have conversed for years whether they received the fullness of the Spirit at this time. For sure, this was the initiation of the coming work of the Church. We know that there is life in breath, for without breath death comes soon. When Jesus breathed on them they were commissioned with life to share in His great mission of spreading God's love, message of forgiveness, and hope of eternity, and the Holy Spirit found a new dwelling place.
hat breath was soon to become the fulfillment of God's promise of the Holy Spirit. In Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost, God sent His "breath" in the form of the Holy Spirit to descend upon each believer. Tongues of fire landed upon the head of each believer present and gave them the utterance to speak in unknown languages. What an incredible, supernatural event to take place in the lives of human beings! God has been breathing into His disciples since the beginning of time. And before His great and glorious return, He is pouring out His Spirit one more time to give life again to His followers. Those who have run out of oxygen gasp for air. Those whose lungs have become damaged, gasp for precious air. Believers who have walked into smoke-filled hallways of life gasp for the air of life. They gasp for the breath of Jesus. Are you getting enough oxygen into your spiritual bloodstream? Or are you gasping like many around you who do not know real life. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." Can you see your breath!
In Christ,
Pastor Jerry