More Leaf Pounding...Bad News into Next Project

 Continuing on in my leaf pounding project.....I was working them all up for the 30 x 30 project through Blue Line Gallery, but got word yesterday that 50 people applied for 20 spots and I wasn't accepted, so I had to spin on a dime and come up with Plan B....

 And Plan B was to take twelve of the 30 I had worked up and finish them off, stretch them and put them in the gallery mid-November for the holiday rush and hope some sell...they are small, make a nice gift and I'll sell them for about $35...we'll see what happens.

 And the others that are smaller and I have an abundance of, I will hold off to the side for another day and the singles that I've been pounding, I'm making into holiday ornaments.  See below....layering them with batting and backing, sewing with gold through around each leave and in the center of the leaf, adding green twine as holders...sew and trim and I've got an ornament.  Making about two dozen to contribute to the holiday tree at the gallery.  Have to do my part and contribute to the holiday cause.

People ask me how I can get so much done............and I think to myself, I have plenty of time, why not just sew or create.  And I can sew fast and accurate at the same time.  When you've been sewing as long as I have, and let's face it, it's been a long long time, I can get things done. 

Once I get these simple pieces out and off my table and to do list, then I can concentrate on the harder pieces that I have planned to do...time consuming projects, experimenting with new ideas and just having some good old fashioned "fun". 

Primary Colors and turning "70"

"Primary Colors" by Patti Wallace...my purchase from the KVIE Art Auction last weekend...have it hanging just inside my front door...my cell phone didn't take the best picture, but you get the drift....love the colors and abstract feeling....sort of scrambled like I feel some days lately.

Took a walk this morning and collected fresh leaves along the way to pound once I got home...came up with several great poundings to add to my collection...need 30 good pieces to start working on the 30x30 piece I'm hoping to get finished in time for the November show.  Wasn't going to do the 30 x 30 this year, but then I couldn't resist the challenge..submitted my ideas two weeks ago and waiting to hear if I got accepted. 

Moved my working table and accessories back into my studio..out of the house and back into the studio attached to the house...the weather is cooler now and I definitely prefer the light from outside and above out in the studio...and I do like my space out there. Had a little issue moving the table out into the back room myself...I have to put it on it's side and push it across and into the back room...the folding chairs got caught up with the tables legs and then came tumbling down and I was trying to catch them and then my socked feet slipped on the tile flooring and down went the table, the chairs and me....dang that hurt.  And no one here to take pity on my but myself....picked myself up, brushed myself off and started all over again.  I'll be sore tomorrow for sure.  I know I should wait for help, but that could be days or weeks since I don't have many folks stopping by the house...and when I have an idea to do something I don't like to wait, so I just do it. 

I was looking all week at dining tables/chair sets on the internet as I had to idea of putting in a formal like dining area............but dang, the ones I like are expensive and I don't want to just put in anything, I want something unusual and we're talking from $1500 up...every time I think of spending a bunch of money on something, I thing to myself...you shouldn't do that right now, you have to pay Lynn's Board & Care and that has to last for a long long time.....so, the idea is out of my head for now, I put back my Pier One table w/floral tiles top..possibly I'll purchase four new chairs as these old ones are just too wobbly at time...maybe that's the alternative for now.

Thinking about working up a new blog on starting my Seventh Decade...I turn 70 towards the end of this month and turning 70 and facing that number is rather crazy and it does change things....when you say you're 70, they all say, you sure don't look 70 or you don't act 70!!  What does that mean...you can act any old way you want to act at any age.  I know people who are young and they come across as being quite old.  Anyway, thinking about doing that, but it would mean I have to get a following and I'd have to work on that.  Have to research that aspect of this idea.

Later.......................