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Thanksgiving in Ajo, Soon

mammal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:19:34 +0000

Mom just informed me that she’d be more comfortable staying over at our house than in her own with the renter there. He shows up every November 1st or so and stays until May-something. He’s a real great guy, and this has been going on for, like, over ten years. But she doesn’t think she would be comfortable, and she’s not sure his ancient Chocolate Lab would get along with her Chihuahuas, and we know that my dogs get along just fine with hers, so OK, that’s fine, we’d love to have her.
I told her she’d have to sleep on the blow-up queen mattress in the other bedroom. It’s the least civilized bedroom, only because the linoleum tiles are half up and half down, and sticky in places. But we have a big blue rug we can throw down and a couple of little rugs, and she should be comfy.
So we are starting to make the list for the trip down. Home Depot, of course, will provide the bulk of our truckload, but then there’s the extra bed, bedding and rugs. I want to take the sewing machine and make drapes for the bedrooms, and sheers for the living room.
The list is getting long already, this far in advance. But we are going to have a great time. I think we will take a humongous pan of berry cobbler, or apple, or cherry … to the VFW hall for Thanksgiving. They are having the turkey and dressing and we are supposed to each bring a side dish.
So put one of those big aluminum pans on my list, and fruit filling.

New Truck

mammal — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:25:11 +0000

Meet Bertha, our new truck. She was so pretty last night when we first drove her home, then it rained. But she still looks glorious in the rain.
The people who owned her since she was brand new used her to pull a fully-loaded horse trailer to rodeos and barrel racing events. They did some shows where you dress up in the fancy breeches. I did some of that in high school on Arabians. Full dress shows. It was fun.

Bertha

The people who had her new named her Bertha. The gal who drove her most almost cried when we were doing the final thing yesterday, but she liked it when I asked the truck’s name.

Business cards

mammal — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:46:00 +0000

So I found some creamy-colored business card stock the other day that I liked real well, I wasn’t cheap, but what the heck. Now I need to design my own logo. I will probably break down and print some off with just my name and email and number if I don’t get off the stick and come up with something soon.
I have labels for my clothing and quilts, but the business cards will have to be different since I will use them for all things, not just the fabric-goods design line.
Once I get the logo, I can order all sorts of promotional products. Here is a good place to start looking. Things like cups, t-shirts, pens. I think a t-shirt would be cool with Stewart Creations on it. I can take the shirt apart and embellish it like I do with lace or ruffles or cut sleeves. Yeah, that would be cool. I have a t-shirt design I am working on that’s SOOO funky! I’m putting regular cloth gores in it from the empire line down to the hem for an all-over flare and leaving the seams all outside for that funky look. Then I cut down the neckband and sleeves for even more funk. We’ll see how it goes, I have one prototype that I’m not 100% happy with, but working on another. i sure like embellishing things!

Beautiful Weather at last

mammal — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:34:39 +0000

Finally, it is cool enough to put the top down on the Miata. I sure love winters in Arizona, summers I could do without, but now we have a good six months of wonderful weather here. I took the dogs for a long walk today up the mountain preserve, didn’t even have to get out before dawn. Didn’t even have to carry a gallon of water. We had a really good time.
It’s funny that all the winter clothes in Walmart and Target are now on the shelves. I take advantage of this by buying up the discounted summer threads. You know we wear shorts and flipflops all winter here, so this is the time of year to shop. I stock up for me and Mom every Fall. I love the 70% off racks, but I will even shop the 30% off racks, and sometimes a real bargain will be stuck up in there. I think I’ll go out again today, still need some more clam diggers for school. Shorts to walk the dogs, but longer pants for formal events like school.
The sports equipment is changing, too, try to find a baseball bat in the stores. You’ll have to wait until spring for that. I bet you could find ice skates and mittens aplenty, though. Haven’t looked for that.

school project

mammal — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:53:52 +0000

my photoshop project

I finally made a small enough copy of the latest project to upload here. I ended up making the ‘Moon Silk’ letters silver before I turned it in. I used a light part of the bottle in the eyedropper for color, added a nice drop shadow on the letters and it looks great. Oh, and at the last minute I put small script ‘eau de parfum’ curved to fit the lable on the right bottom.

I had great fun. I have a lot of fun with all the art classes.

We have decided to go to Mom’s in Rocky Point for Thanksgiving, we won’t be here to do our shopping on that “black friday” I prefer Cyber Monday anyhow. The deals I have found on previous Thanksgiving “black friday” haven’t really been that great. I mostly stick to the internet, and count on chance encounters with great deasl while I’m just out shopping in general. You know, you find something that just screams “Aunt Nete for Christmas!” and it’s really only Halloween? I’m like that.