Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivanda
Today's entry in the Henry Miller List:
2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring." --- Translate to my world, Start No More New Quilts, add no more new geegaws to _____________(fill in the blank quilt name!) Keep it Simple Stupid. Sometimes things are better when not gussied up with things superfluous to the original idea.For all you Fiat Lovers out there, Ron Arad has some surprises for you. This is after the hoop-de-hoop over the Japanese VW balls that turned out not to be actual VWs, but instead fiberglass molded into sort-of VWs IF they were squashed round.
I'm feeling so hobbled without my machine! I have to stop back in the shop in a bit to leave them my power cord and bobbin case for a complete check- I didn't pack those up because I didn't think there was anything wrong in those areas. Stupid of me. Because I don't have that, I've yanked out an older piece that I was doing maybe 10 years ago, and with some judicious chopping, it makes a stellar small quilt. It still needs hours and hours of appliqué but hey, I'm up to it. Have black thread, will go for it. Plus I can take it home and leave it by the chair in the brightest light to work on- Boy, I hate working on black any more. Between bursts of knitting.
TY is arriving in a few days, I won't be doing much work while he's here so if I can get a start now, that will help. My goal is to finish the small quilt- well, at least the applique part, forget the layering for now- before we go to Vermont. If the machine gets ready to come home, I can work on that piece in the studio. I also have a new artists' book in the works- I have all the pages gessoed and all I need now is a reason! What I DO know is I need some silver leaf before I go further.
On my way out both dogs jumped to attention and raced me for the door. I had to say 'no' and they both stood there staring at me with their big black eyes and then they both started CRYING! I am feeling way guilty for abandoning them today, so will take my handwork stuff and go back- they will both be sleeping when I'm there, they just like to know I'm with them. Yesterday was a bad day for them, I was out most of the day with just a quick run up and down the street in between my trips. Can't do that to them again.
This is heartening:
Certain to sell, thanks to finance from a third-party guarantor, the 1982 oilstick-on-panel Basquiat, painted when the former street artist was 21 years old, sold to a phone bidder for 18.8 million pounds including fees -- less than the $48.8 million for another 1982 painting in May, though much more than the $1.7 million the unidentified seller bought it for in 2002.
Wow.
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