Sept 10
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
Here is the last of the family portraits in shades of blue. I realized I wanted to cut out from the right side fabric that had already had fusible applied to the back. In a fit of brilliance, I printed the black and white image I wanted onto freezer paper, on the paper side, and ironed it to the fabric. Then I could iron fusible to the other side and cut out exactly the image I wanted with no flipping it around or going backwards. I got braver as I went along, with tiny lines and two colors. I like the set of four together. I wonder if more shades are possible.
For today I spent my time spinning. I think that comes from Jamaica, where someone is not attaining much forward motion, for all the effort they are putting into it. Kate sympathized that it was much like the unexpected nap of the young child. It is very difficult to decide what to do, how best to use your time, when faced with a nap of unknown length. It took a while to learn to chunk life into nap sized pieces. Of course it all fell apart when they stopped napping, but school started eventually and ... well, you all know this I am sure.
Mostly what I did was swat things on my to-do list. I showed Al my list, a half sheet of paper scribbled and about half crossed out, and he said "oh. overhead." He frequently says "half life is overhead" by which he means that for any fun thing you do, you spend at least the same amount of time preparing for it and picking up after it. I think it comes from grant writing, when the university took 50% off the top of whatever you were awarded for overhead. Fifty percent to cover the basics; turning on the heat, the electricity, keeping it clean, all under overhead. So to speak.
So maybe I should think of today as spent on overhead. I missed the fun part though. Have to make up for that tomorrow.
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