Bobbins Broke and I don't care

Had a devil of a time with my machine last night, sounded like a bag o' bolts amplified and the satin stitch it has always done with finesse was weird, all threads from underneath.  (Because I didn't make enough bobbins and was using up odds and ends, so sue me.)  Finally I pulled out the bobbin case to see if it was threaded correctly, and it fell apart in my hand.  Drat the luck.  Now I have to haul still another project with me in my suitcase, and I am out of room.  Lucky for me it happened at midnight so there was nothing left to do but go to bed.  So, here's what's in the pipeline today-

I finished up a collage that was a good use of the tar paper circles.  And it just so happens a deadline is approaching that I can enter it.  Here is the main piece:

And some of it's details:
I've beaded the low areas heavily, added the fish and bubbles to their pools, and cut out additional kelp for the edges. I am really liking this piece, and I tried something new for hanging too. First I used batting to puff up the high points, then I inserted a piece of foam core and use that to anchor two 'O' rings to the back and secured them with buttons to make sure they wouldn't pull through. Then I layered it up and did minimal stitching to hold it in place. I may add more beads today after I see it dry- it's hard to place them when the glue is opaque. This will go live in my outside hall for the coming parties I've been working on.

And that's that!  Here is what's on the wall today, my digital prints of the red dumpster printed on shiny damask, then mounted to linen napkins with some of my collection of redwork nursery rhyme characters over the surface.  I have to back or paint the redwork cotton because it's very transparent and the dumpster color comes through, but it's pinned and ready to go when I get a bobbin case and am back in business.  The detail is 'Three Blind Mice' and the lady is about to do in a poor mousie.  What a hideous story to tell kids.

OK, that's all I got this morning, I am off to the NEQM for Nancy Halpern's talk, 'Nancy on Nancy', and will meet up with an old email pal from way back when I taught in CA.  Should be fun to reconnect.  Poor woman sure has been getting a belly-full of bad weather this week.  Sue, I am sorry, I did order sun-  want to borrow some mittens?

Then I finish emptying the refrigerator and call the cab-  off I go.