Welcome to My Tizzy

.

Here's a prototype for something I was playing around with yesterday. It would be for Sticky Notes and cards - maybe add some borders and frame it. I think I like it. The image could be stamped better and I think the black dots should be red. Because I've made so many of those Lone Star blocks with the tips a different color too, this one looks unfinished to me. As you can imagine gluing those little diamond tips can be a pain in the neck, and that's me talking, who generally enjoys pain in the neck stuff. Just had a thought - maybe I could cut those last diamonds away (easier) and layer it on another color star so that 3rd color shows through. Hmmm.

I didn't mean for this one to look Christmasy; those are just 2 of the colors I had stamped out long ago - found them in my to-do box the other day.

I'd appreciate hearing your suggestions and thoughts.

~ ~ ~

You know when I go days on end without blogging that I'm busier than a one armed paper hanger. As I've said I'm very excited about this upcoming Quilt Show this weekend. I'm actually in better shape than I thought I might be. I have been working my butt off. On Sunday I embellished 75 cards. I worked from 6:30 am to about 4:30 pm, with a couple of breaks for meals and Sunday paper reading. When I was done, I decided to take my laptop into the living room and catch up on some email. I wasn't there 5 minutes when I couldn't keep my eyes open so I laid down for a cat nap. Steve was there reading and he fell asleep too because he'd been helping his daughter move all day. We was w-o-r-n out.

I finished up the cards last night and counted them. I have 121 cards ready for sale. That's about 6 times the amount I sometimes have for shows. I've got 4 kinds of new magnets and bunches of pins - including several new ones. I'll concentrate on Sticky Notes for the rest of the week. Thankfully, I thought ahead to take Thursday off so I can focus on finishing everything and I want to make some new signage.

Vendors are requested to choose their own set up time on Friday. I'll have to review the paperwork but I think I picked 11:00 as my first choice and 2:00 as my second choice. My preference would actually be first thing in the am but I figured lots of people might want that so I tried to pick a "second wave" time. The shows starts at 5:00. So if I set up at 11:00, I'll come home for a while; if I set up at 2:00, I'll stay right through.

* Edited to add: I received an email from the quilt show co-ordinators last night - and it seems I chose 9:30 as my move-in time. Shows what I remember. That's even better - I can definitely come home before the show starts at 5:00.

I'm sorry. Now I'm just rambling, thinking out loud. I mostly wanted to check in and say hey. I miss blogging! And I miss reading blogs - I feel out of touch with my friends.

Friday, June 5, 5:00-8:00

Saturday, June 6, 10:00-8:00

Sunday, June 7, 10:00-5:00

Genesee Valley Quilt Club's Garden of Quilts

RIT Gordon Field House

One Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5603

.