Proprietor Feldspar Stink

Two Issues, happily in outline format:

1. I am having a fight with the printing company- I sent my jpg image and the text info to them at the same time, but nothing showed up on the receipt as having reached them text-wise so I e-mIled them right away and got an answer right away that they never got the text. SO, I hurried along and sent them the text in pdf format within 15 minutes. I didn't arrange payment because I wanted acknowledgement that they received it, in fact I emailed them again to confirm 15 minutes later, no response. I waited 2 hours, still hadn't paid so I did the Paypal thing and e-mailed them again that it was on the way and that I want to make sure that there is text on the backs. Well, today, TWO DAYS LATER, I got a message that they received the text but the cards had already gone to printing and were on their way to me today TEXT-LESS. I am screamin' mad, cut and pasted ALL my mesaaages to them before I paid about how I wanted confirmations but never got any. So they offered to REPRINT the postcards with the text as a new order- at MY expense. If this isn't handled better I am going to rejoin QA and post their name and the story everywhere I can think of. I*am*so*mad.

And 2. I got an e-mail from Quilting Arts to submit articles on technique so I am busily trying to come up with something I do that nobody else has laid claim to in the technique department. I have three possibilities, so perhaps you can let me know if one is more appealing than another- just hit the 'comments' button.

A. What would you think about me doing collages with my vintage redwork and paint, but doing quilting stitches over the paint instead of mounting them on stretchers? Like the G-series?


B. Or should I do something with ink jet photo priinting? Somethng with cutting up photos and fusing them down so they don't work as photos, instead as fabric prints? (Like I did on HGTV but a different project?)


C. Or, how about what I did on the new Handwork quilt where I 'drew' on the back of the fabric with black thread in my
bobbin so I got a wonky line drawing on the front- I could perhaps do this on some old napkins (or vintage tablecloth) to make it more 'mine'. Thread painting for the dyxlectic!