Becka's Project Journal

Wednesday, August 29th

hug your horses

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I think my niece should have received this by now, so I can post pictures. Her birthday was in July during my summer camp frenzy, so I just finally got this finished and mailed off to her a week or so ago. I hope she thinks it was worth the wait. Please excuse the appallingly bad pictures - don't know what was up with that. The quilt was inspired by the horse fabric. My niece is a BIG horse lover and rider, so I knew she had to have something with this fabric. The back of the quilt is horseback riding "stuff" - helmets, gloves, boots etc. I wanted to do a little piecework, while still showing lots of meadows, so I did just a stripe of little squares made from all kinds of prints I had in my stash - leftovers from costumes, other gifts and quilts. It's just big enough to snuggle under while you watch a movie or read a book, so I hope it sees lots of use.
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becka on 08.29.07 @ 05:44 PM CST [1 Comment][link]

Thursday, August 23rd

finished

Summer camps are done. (A huge sigh of relief is heard.) Maybe, possibly, I will get a little time back. Wow. While I do some much needed hibernation, here are some photos...

a cute apron for my sister's wedding shower.

Made from Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Fabric.

Staffing the ticket booth at a recent event (wearing a super cute dress I got for $20).

and finally, Puppies! German short-hair pointers from my to-be-bro-in-law's sweet woofer Zeta. Poor Zeta was looking after 9 wiggly puppies in 100 degree heat when I met her. That's one patient girl.
becka on 08.23.07 @ 04:50 PM CST [1 Comment][link]

Monday, August 20th

the home stretch

Summer camps are done after Wednesday and I am hoping my life can resume some sense of normal. It has been too much. In the meantime, here is what I have been working on in my spare minutes here and there...

... cozies for iPods, cell phones and other small doo-dads. I sent them off to an art show this weekend in WI, and will be putting the rest in my etsy shop sometime soon. They are knitted and fulled and then embroidered with something fun.
becka on 08.20.07 @ 08:12 AM CST [2 Comments][link]

Wednesday, August 8th

You go girl!

I just watched the video on NASA's website of the space shuttle Endeavor lifting off and sending a teacher in to space! I have to admit that I held my breath, although I already knew it went without a hitch. Hooray for Barbara Morgan . Hooray for teachers!

becka on 08.08.07 @ 06:51 PM CST [2 Comments][link]

Wednesday, August 1st

thank you for checking in

Thank you to everyone who has checked in with us. We are fine. Safe and sound. We have heard from lots of friends and family and everyone is well. None of us will be sleeping well tonight.
becka on 08.01.07 @ 10:41 PM CST [2 Comments][link]

Monday, July 30th

personality DNA

Stumbled across this on another blog. I can't resist this kind of thing.

The description is very "me".

Your imagination, confidence, willingness to explore, and appreciation of beauty make you a CREATOR.
You are independent, and you enjoy your self-sufficiency.
Defying convention, you are very innovative, and you have a vivid imagination.
You have a strong interest in what is new and exciting—and that includes forging ahead with new ideas, not simply discovering what is already out there.
You trust yourself to be innovative and resourceful.
You prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute.
Your reserved nature, understanding of the world, and faith in others make you RESPECTFUL.
You trust those around you to do the right thing, so you tend not to get involved in other people's affairs.
You have fewer friendships than some, but the relationships you do have are very meaningful and important to you.
You tend to enjoy the world through ideas and reflection, which allows you to get a lot out of the time you spend alone.
As someone who is calm and centered, you aren't likely to rush into things—this patience allows you to see many different perspectives and options.
becka on 07.30.07 @ 07:03 PM CST [3 Comments][link]

Sunday, July 29th

too many hours

Too many 50+ hr weeks in a row = not much blogging.

Summer camps are in full swing and this year has thrown me for a loop. We have been so busy. Wonderfully busy, but it leaves little time for me to catch my breath and I feel like I am about 2 weeks behind with what I wanted to be doing this summer.

I owe one niece and one honarary nephew their birthday presents. I am working on them bit by bit and they might have them next week. Will be worth the wait, of course.

I am reading Harry Potter VII again. Slowly this time. Savoring. I read too fast usually. I finished about 2 1/2 hrs ahead of Andy. Much to his distress. He banished me to another part of the house until he was finished.

Spent the day baking, despite the heat. A friend is taking her 17 yr old daughter for brain surgery week after next. Bringing cookies to her doesn't begin to be enough, but it is something.

I keep forgetting to remark on our backyard fauna. A couple of Sundays ago we had a personal record for backyard species spotted at once - chickadee, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, sparrows, goldfinch, house finch, blue jay, robin, cardinal and squirrel. All within a 10 minute span. Our birdbath is popular. We often see nuthatches and juncos, but they didn't make an appearance that day. I also imagine that we had several sparrow varieties, but we were not ambitious enough to look them up. This afternoon we sat and watched a group of about 8 chickadees hunting for bugs in the leaves and taking turns visiting the peanut feeder and birdbath. Once in a while the nuthatch would swoop in and scold them and they would flutter up and wait for him to take his turn.
becka on 07.29.07 @ 06:17 PM CST [Add a comment][link]

Saturday, July 21st

8:05 am

two copies of Harry Potter
two lattes

becka on 07.21.07 @ 04:01 PM CST [2 Comments][link]

Friday, July 20th

photos

Went last night to a talk by Lynn Redgrave. Her daughter documented Lynn's breast cancer treatment through photographs. Since breast cancer has touched so many people in my life, I decided that it would be interesting to go. The photos are on display at the MN Center for Photography. I was blown away. Some photos are accompanied by a bit of a journal entry about that day and some are on their own. I don't often find an exhibit that resonates with me quite like this and I am so glad I went.
becka on 07.20.07 @ 07:22 AM CST [1 Comment][link]

Monday, July 16th

tagged and shook hands

The art mobile for the art center where I work got some extra decoration by a group of delinquents with a can of spray paint last week. Big squiggles and stars where really none were necessary. It just makes me sad, my poor truck. I went out to repaint Friday to try and cover up the mess and as I was going around doing touch ups, since I was there with the paint, I discovered that the hoodlums also felt it necessary to shoot the windshield 7 times.

Sigh.

In happier news, we went to see the musical 1776 this weekend with a friend. He knew a cast member and so we waited around at the stage door and I got to meet Gaston. That is Gaston as in "Beauty and the Beast" and "I use antlers in all of my decorating" Gaston. His name is really Richard, he is super nice, and he did the voice in the movie. Cool huh? 1776 was a good production of a sort of boring musical, in my opinion. It just isn't one of my favorites. But it was fun to see and go to the new Guthrie Theater.
becka on 07.16.07 @ 07:30 AM CST [6 Comments][link]

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