tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41835330298932283152024-02-07T06:15:24.513-06:00The Nattie BugQuilts and occasional short essaysnattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-22541231060198552652016-07-19T22:13:00.002-05:002016-07-31T15:01:32.586-05:00Representative Images for Funky Finds Application<h2>
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nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-19553287312394802472014-10-25T22:49:00.000-05:002014-10-26T08:36:51.358-05:00On American BeautyEdited 10/26/14 <br />
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Earlier this morning, I went into Ulta to buy some conditioner that isn't sold in other retail stores. After picking up the bottle, I decided to walk up and down the aisles as I let my mind wander. This meandering through big box stores isn't retail therapy in the form of numerous needless purchases, but I enjoy the break from phones, from responsibilities, from worries.<br />
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The store was busy because of a Bare Minerals makeup event. Women signed up for free consultations as they entered the store, then shopped while waiting for their turn in the makeup chair. I had no interest in the special event, so I continued up and down the aisles until I reached the premium makeup section of the store. This section of the store is distinct from the area that contains everyday brands like Neutrogena and Revlon, whose products can be purchased for a third of the price (oh, how I covet one of the Naked eyeshadow sets!).<br />
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Logically, the premium makeup aisles are adjacent to the premium skin care products. Thus, as I turned reached the end the aisle dedicated to Urban Decay products, an Ulta employee stopped me. I had a smear of something black, possibly eyeliner, on my cheek. As I wiped my face clean at the nearest mirror, one that magnifies one's pores, all I could see were my unplucked eyebrows, which family members have previously referred to as "feral." Fortunately, after years of commentary, they've accepted that regular eyebrow plucking isn't high on my list of priorities. Unfortunately, combining a face smear, a stranger and a magnification mirror brought my inner ugly duckling to life.<br />
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The employee, a dyed blonde with plenty of premium product on her face, began assessing my skin. After explaining her credentials ("I work in the face care section), she said something along the lines of, "I can see that your acne is acting up. It's probably because of the hormones from pregnancy. Do you know you're not supposed to use products like salicylic acid when you're pregnant?" (I am 30 weeks pregnant, and it shows.)<br />
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I said, "Yep!", ready to turn away and continue drifting aimlessly through the aisles. Instead of stopping there, the employee, whose other potential customers were enraptured by the beauty event at the front of the store, proceeded to explain the benefits of a $53 face cream that is useful to pregnant women with acne who can't use the typical topicals ("I can't lie. It's expensive....Such and such ingredient is an acid, but it's plant based.")<br />
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After the employee finished reading me the contents of the face cream and listing the benefits to my face, I excused myself saying that I would keep the product in mind. As I finished drifting up and down the remaining aisles, I paid particular attention to the various eyebrow rescue kits, which all seemed to contain two shades of powder and eyebrow gel that "keep them in place for 24 hours!" My pleasant escape from reality was at its end, as I pondered whether I should invest in improving my appearance with one or more of the makeup sets available.<br />
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I wasn't too worried about the so-called acne that the employee found so noticeable. I've chosen not to follow my pre-pregnancy facial routine in order to limit what chemicals my body absorbs. In addition, what the employee noticed are scars and some freckles. If you look closely, you'll that I have blackheads on my nose, but today, there are no pimples or other hormone-induced eruptions. As a teenager, however, I did have horrible acne. To get rid of the evidence, I would have to have a chemical peel or something other equally horrific treatment. And, until today, no one has bothered to tell me they notice.<br />
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But, notice this employee did. Miss Manners would be appalled, though plenty might think that it was my own fault, really. I hadn't bothered to apply makeup--and usually do not. Why not? Because it requires re-application. Because it melts away with the sweat on hot summer days in Texas. Because I work from home and often don't see anyone other than my husband for days in a row. Because makeup is expensive. Because my husband seems not to care that I apply makeup only occasionally, when I'm in the mood to do so. Because my friends seem to love me whether I have the stuff on or not.<br />
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As I drove away and had more time to process what happened in the store, I had to consider the two reactions the interaction provoked in me. One on hand, all of the socialization about beauty in American society and my own insecurities began to surface. What to do? Apply some makeup, pluck some stray hairs and be beautiful--or at least demonstrate that I care about being beautiful? Doing so would somehow improve my life, right? Maybe more people would like me. Maybe I would be happier if I purchased some new eyeshadow and an eyebrow rescue kit and put them to use while also vowing not to leave the apartment without having applied concealer and a mineral powder foundation.<br />
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On the other hand, what the hell is wrong with this woman and all the beauty ads and perfect-seeming stars we look up to as role models? Is buying $53 face cream going to help me earn more money? Will it aid me through natural labor? Through my first days as a mother? Will it make my breast milk come in more quickly? Will it make my unborn son love me more? Will my improved appearance make my husband want to make more babies, right now? Will the value I get from the $53 purchase be greater than whatever else it is I plan to spend my "play money" on this month? <br />
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The employee who shared her product recommendation with me wasn't snarky or condescending, and I don't think she intended to insult me. I'm not angry with her, and she did not ruin my day. Instead, I see her as a reflection of society at large, of a beauty zombie who does what many of us do and make a first assessment of another that is only skin deep. Meanwhile, I can cheer inwardly and be thankful that the child currently stomping on my bladder is a boy. His teenage years are likely to be awkward and acne filled, but that will be okay. Chances are no one will ever stop him in a store to suggest that he load his cart with expensive products that will make him more beautiful, more lovable, more desirable, more worthy. His frenemies will not whisper that he is ugly and therefore unworthy of popularity. A peer in school will not comment about him, as one said about me, "[S]he's a dog!" He will not ask his partner if he looks fat before he walks out the door. He will, I hope, just be. That's enough for me. I hope it's enough for him. nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-62672693171656809802014-10-15T08:09:00.001-05:002014-10-15T08:09:28.483-05:00Saturday in the ParkWe visited the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and started experimenting with a new-to-us camera.<br />
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More memories from <a href="http://thenattiebug.blogspot.com/2014/03/163-jackson-street-nyc-quilt.html" target="_blank">The NYC Quilt</a>.... <br />
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This quilt block was created by a friend who rode the <a href="http://tourdebrooklyn.org/" target="_blank">Tour de Brooklyn</a> (roughly 20 miles) with me on June 5, 2005. I did a search for the 2005 Tour de Brooklyn and found <a href="http://bicyclist.blogspot.com/2005/06/bike-tour-de-brooklyn-was-hot.html" target="_blank">this blog</a> written by a participant that same year -- the first year of the ride! The author has some good shots of the ride in progress. (For anyone interested, this year's tour is on Saturday, June 1.) <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWS6loFFqKD8vwEXXkWN6lE1pkQOBLUnj3VxKW8Qm8t692aBbrJ9zew90Vy2Xqn-KcDLBbbyS2lqIWfjhuU8GfqkP5LnraKsJPa6uDjcHdQY65hjrWvF72Z3aHILF0oZ55B5wPOdg1Ya7O/s1600/NYC+Quilt+Tour+de+Brooklyn+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWS6loFFqKD8vwEXXkWN6lE1pkQOBLUnj3VxKW8Qm8t692aBbrJ9zew90Vy2Xqn-KcDLBbbyS2lqIWfjhuU8GfqkP5LnraKsJPa6uDjcHdQY65hjrWvF72Z3aHILF0oZ55B5wPOdg1Ya7O/s1600/NYC+Quilt+Tour+de+Brooklyn+2.png" height="320" width="232" /></a>Later that year, in August, I went on a solo bike ride from my apartment in Williamsburg to Roosevelt Island, a skinny island between Queens and Manhattan. A paved path rings the island, so I decided to check it out. The quiet island has a modern hospital at one end and the remains of an <a href="http://www.rihs.us/landmarks/renwick.html" target="_blank">abandoned smallpox hospital</a> at the other. It was hot out, and I hadn't slept well the night before (post-breakup blues). Apparently, I shouldn't have attempted the 12-mile bike ride when I did. Just a mile or two from home, as I rode down a residential street, I crashed my bike. To be more specific, I crashed my bike into a parked, unmanned red car. There were no moving vehicles on the two-lane street. I must have zoned out because I remembered riding and then seeing a side mirror in my way.<br />
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Even more humiliating was the fact that a man in a van had turned onto the street just as I crashed. As I stood up, adjusted my helmet, and grabbed a sip from my water bottle, he drove by me, asked if I was okay and implied that I should stop drinking vodka while riding. Fortunately, I was only bruised up and not bleeding, so I made it home in one piece. nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-58382150772936705202014-05-02T18:31:00.001-05:002014-05-02T18:31:20.278-05:00Meet Midget Block 62Until yesterday, I had stalled out on my Dear Jane. I was working at a pretty fast clip until I hit Row G, Block 2. You can see the version Anina (author of the blog "That Quilt") created <a href="http://thatquilt.blogspot.com/2009/07/g-2.html" target="_blank">here.</a> The block just doesn't speak to me. Last weekend I did a search for 4.5" blocks and found the <a href="http://sentimentalstitches.net/" target="_blank">Sentimental Stitches website</a>. Under "Free Patterns" is a treasure trove of 4.5" of "Midget Blocks," based on a Depression-era quilt. The patterns for blocks 1-50 are no longer free, but (as of now) you can still download the patterns for blocks 51-174.<br />
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<br />The directions printed with the block suggest a combination of paper-piecing (which I did) and hand-piecing. I didn't think through the construction of the block before beginning, so regular hand-piecing wasn't an option. Instead, I ended up stitching together the star, then turning under 1/4" on all edges. I hand appliqued the star to background fabric.<br />
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I don't recommend doing this. Instead, I suggest paper-piecing the striped diamonds. Rather than trim them, leave each piece larger than it needs to be. Then, create an English paper-piecing template for the diamonds, triangles and squares. Sew those pieces together by hand. Now I know!nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-87853196592699399052014-04-20T12:08:00.003-05:002014-04-20T12:09:30.975-05:00Dear Jane Update -- 10 Years LaterI've been working on my version of the <a href="http://www.dearjane.com/" target="_blank">Dear Jane</a> quilt for approximately ten years now. I think I did my first block sometime in 2004 at a class at NYC's <a href="http://www.cityquilter.com/" target="_blank">City Quilter</a>. (In the book, I've written down the date that I completed many of the blocks--but not always the year. The earliest complete date I see as I flip through the book today is January 30, 2004). I have between 60 and 70 of the center blocks left to complete, and I've started laying out my blocks using the "My Block Chart" of the <a href="http://electricquilt.com/online-shop/dear-jane/" target="_blank">EQ software</a> created for the quilt. <br />
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My original plan was not much of a plan. I wanted to do a red and black quilt. Slowly, "red" came to mean "orange/pink/maroon/red" and "black" came to mean "black/grey/white." I didn't plan to do <i>a trip around the world</i>, like Jane did, but now that's the design I'm aiming for now. I am not redoing any blocks, though, so my trip around the world will be a little less clear than others'.<br />
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Recently, a friend who started a purple Dear Jane and joined a monthly "support group" told me about a blog with tutorials for each block: <a href="http://thatquilt.blogspot.com/">http://thatquilt.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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I've been checking that website for tips, as well as the worksheets provided by Judy and Diane (who teach the Dear Jane class at The City Quilter), the tips at the Dear Jane website, and other tidbits I've picked up doing Google searches. I recently found a flying geese tutorial that I really like--it's the second one in this <a href="https://www.connectingthreads.com/tutorials/Flying_Geese-Make_em_fast-two_methods__D15.html" target="_blank">Connecting Threads blog post</a>. <br />
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Today, I'm going to finish out the row G patterns (not Row G in my chart, above, but Row G in the <i>Dear Jane</i> book). G2, which Brenda titled "Mohawk Trail" is quite ugly, in my opinion. So, I'm going to do a 4.5" variation of the "Swirly Twirly Dresden" block by <a href="http://www.quiltinglodgeblog.com/2013/02/swirly-twirly-dresden.html" target="_blank">Rachel of the Quilting Lodge</a> instead. <br />
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<br />nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-2840432457567574052014-03-08T09:27:00.000-06:002014-03-09T20:53:42.689-05:00163 Jackson Street (The NYC Quilt)I lived in Brooklyn, NY for three years, and when I left, for the only time in my life, I felt like Carrie Bradshaw: in love with a boyfriend who happened to be a city. So, in August 2006, the month that I packed up and returned to Texas, I cut squares of fabric, backed them with freezer paper, and picked up a set of fabric markers. I took blocks to The City Quilter--a place where I had worked part-time, took classes, and hung out with amazing, creative women (and men)--and to a goodbye gathering at my favorite dive bar. Friends and strangers contributed blocks, and I created a larger quilt top by creating blocks from a city-themed fabric.<br />
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Just this month, seven and a half years later, I finished the quilt.<br />
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It's not beautiful and the design isn't well-balanced, but I love the finished product. Looking over the blocks that others created for me has brought back a flood of memories, many of which I wouldn't have been able to tell you about before looking over the quilt. I created two blocks for the quilt, and one of them, which depicts my apartment, has provided me with a name for the quilt: 163 Jackson Street.<br />
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I lived in a three-story walk-up in Brooklyn, just a few blocks from the Graham Avenue stop on the "L" line. At the top of the building was a decorative statue, and while at first glance you might have thought it odd to live in a building topped with a gargoyle, a second glance revealed that instead you lived in a building guarded by a stone turkey.<br />
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I started out in apartment 1A, a little studio apartment of approximately 400 square feet. The rent was $900 a month, so after paying that and the rest of my bills, I didn't have much spending money. (I taught in the public schools. Starting pay was $39,000 at that time.) Because paying rent was taking so much out of my take home pay, I got on Craigslist before renewing my lease and found an ad posted by someone who needed a roommate. Two emails later, I learned that the person's name was Dan and that he lived at 163 Jackson Street, two floors above me. I moved in (the larger apartment was approximately 450 square feet), and my share of the rent dropped to $625.<br />
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If you look at the quilt block, you'll see that I've drawn some stick figures. The one on the right is me. The little person in the middle is Dan (a short, skinny Japanese guy, definitely smaller than me). To the left is Stephanie, who became my roommate when Dan moved out, and her cat Tonto. Not pictured is Udi, the Israeli roommate who replaced Stephanie and then refused to move out when I did because he intended to become a squatter.<br />
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163 was three buildings from the corner of the street, and at the corner was a laundry shop called "Bubble Spa" (see the top right of the quilt block). For part of the first year, I dragged my laundry up and down the stairs of the apartment building to Bubble Spa and paid $3 or $4 a load to use their washers and dryers. Then, I got smart and exhausted (I was a first-year teacher and in graduate school) and started paying Bubble Spa $0.69/lb to wash and fold my laundry for me. Never has anyone folded laundry so well! Of course, paying $14 or $15 to have someone else do my laundry was another reason my money supply was limited. In less popular areas, you could have your laundry done for only $0.40/lb, but I wasn't going to cart the laundry farther than I had to.<br />
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Three other businesses are represented on the right side of my block: C-Town, East Met West (that's not a typo), and a 24-hour bodega. C-Town was the closest grocery store, just over a block away from my apartment. When I first moved to NYC, shopping of any kind was stressful, even at a small grocery store. Why? First of all, I wasn't familiar with the brands. I remember going into C-Town to buy a jar of pickles but leaving with none. There were shelves of pickles, and not one brand name I had ever seen before. I had no idea which brands in front of me were popular or even generic. I had to go back home, regroup, and buy pickles during a later trip.<br />
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Also confusing was that C-Town did not carry shampoo, toothpaste, or contact solution. I had to buy those things across the street at a pharmacy--imagine a small Walgreens. Directly next to C-Town was a produce shop (C-Town didn't carry any fresh produce either). The produce next door was seasonal and in good shape, but expensive. My dad visited me at some point and bought me a "granny cart," one of those metal carts with four wheels that you can use to lug things around. I would walk fifteen or twenty minutes to a different, bigger, cheaper produce store and come home happier...until I had to get the granny cart and all of my oranges up to the third floor. I stopped shopping at C-Town after a city-wide blackout. About a week after power was restored, I bought some chicken breast. They had gone bad, and from then on I worried about being sold food that hadn't been refrigerated properly.<br />
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East Met West was one of two Chinese restaurants in the neighborhood. I got a tofu and pork dish and huge containers of hot and sour soup on a regular business. The food tasted good, cost little, and could even be delivered at no extra charge. Getting Chinese food in Texas requires a car and more money. And, forget delivery.<br />
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The 24-hour bodega was my number one neighborhood stop. There, I discovered single-serving cups of Hagen Daz Dulce de Leche ice cream, homemade blocks of tofu, and any other items that I needed to get through the day's crisis.<br />
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At the left side of the block are two neighborhood characters. Bruno belonged to an older man who lived across the street from 163. That man, like most of the neighborhood's elderly, had immigrated from the same village in Naples to Brooklyn decades earlier. Daily, I would hear the neighbor yell, "Bruno" in his deep, cranky, Italian-accented voice.<br />
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Watching over everyone, of course, was the Virgin Mary. I presume she watched over the neighborhood. I only saw her come out in public one time, wearing a cape of money. There was a parade in her honor, and the parade was no more than two parts long: the Virgin Mary on her trailer and the people walking behind her.<br />
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I hated leaving New York, and I hated this quilt top when I first put it together seven years ago. I was obsessed with the ugly parts of it and wanted to re-assemble it, but I didn't have the energy. Now, all I care about are the beautiful parts--the memories and the thoughtfulness of the people who contributed blocks.<br />
<br />nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-29085241657033387822014-03-08T08:22:00.001-06:002014-03-08T08:22:50.286-06:00Sprouts and more SproutsIn mid-February, my in-laws drove in to take me and my husband out for a birthday meal (both of us have February birthdays). Part of the visit involved "Christmas," otherwise known as present-time, and we each received a "healthy" gift. My husband received a brand new yogurt maker, circa 1970, purchased from eBay. My mother-in-law has the same one and had purchased a back-up but never needed to use it. The appliance works perfectly, and my husband loves it.<div>
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My healthy gift was the <a href="http://sproutpeople.org/leafy-sprout-starter-kit/" target="_blank">Leafy Sprout Starter Kit</a> sold by The Sprout People. The Easy Sprout Sprouter allows you to grow two tablespoons of sprout seeds in less than a week and requires very little counter space or sunlight. Really, all you need is seeds and water for rinsing the seeds each day. </div>
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The Leafy Sprout Starter Kit comes with <b>nine</b> one-quarter pound bags of sprout seeds. Each bag of seeds is equivalent to 10 tablespoons of sprouts, which produces the pictured amount of sprouts five times over. That's 45 batches of sprouts, which is roughly one year's worth of sprouts <i>if</i> you can figure out how to eat an enormous quantity of sprouts within one week's time. </div>
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Ladies and gentlemen, my mother-in-law has given me the gift that never stops giving: 90 batches of grow-your-own sprouts. </div>
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<li>Flowers (we hired a florist for this part)</li>
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<li>Packages of moss from Joann's or Michael's</li>
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Don't get too matchy-matchy. Do consider the size of the books you buy/borrow/use. We had some stacks of two books and some of three. You want to make sure that your vase and moss rings will fit on the smallest books. We sorted and stacked our 12 sets of books <i>prior</i> to making the moss rings.</div>
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Place your vase on a sheet of cardstock (or a filing folder) and trace the footprint of the vase onto the paper. Then, use a compass (or a dinner plate, etc) to draw a second circle -- our rings were roughly 2" wide. Cut out the center and around the outer ring. Place your vase in the ring to check the fit.</div>
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<br />nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-28453280881052641902013-03-06T09:12:00.001-06:002013-03-06T09:12:26.375-06:00Mixed Greens GaletteLast night, I tried a new, healthy recipe as part of an endeavor to be more adventurous and eat more veggies. The resulting dish was terrific! Alas, Blogger won't let me post a picture right now.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yield:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Serves 8 to 10 </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will make four smaller galettes
next time and freeze two to bake for a later meal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schulman’s recipe calls for 1 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/science/22recipehealth.html"><span style="color: blue;">yeasted whole wheat olive oil pastry</span></a> and has a
link to a crust for Mediterranean Vegetable Pies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: purple;">I adapted a recipe for Tyropitakia from my
friend Marina Beasley</span>:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dough:</span></u></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One envelope yeast (2 ¼ tsp)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 c olive oil</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 tsp sugar</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">¾ c wheat flour (or more) + 2 ¼ white
flour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add additional flour as needed
(may need up to 5 c total).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will use more
wheat flour next time.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mix the
ingredients with a spoon until the dough is thick enough to manipulate with
your hands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dough should be very
soft but not sticky – add additional flour as needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set aside while making the filling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dough felt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almost</i> too wet but cooked perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: purple;">This
recipe makes too much dough for one galette</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Make mini-galettes filled with feta cheese and Greek seasoning or some
other filler – yum!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 large onion (I used 2 sm) – Cut into
quarters from root to stem and then slice thinly across the grain</span></li>
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such as a Southern greens mix (kale, collards, turnip greens and spinach)<span style="color: blue;"> [This
is not available where I live, so I purchased 1 bunch spinach and 1 bunch
collard greens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Removed stems, rinsed,
and chopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Total weight = almost 1
lb.]</span></span></li>
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own: 2 tbsp dried thyme, 1 ½ tsp sesame seeds, 1 ½ tsp sumac, 1/8 tsp
salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">I was out of dried thyme, so I
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<li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 tablespoon egg wash (1 egg beaten
with 1 teaspoon milk) for brushing the crust </span></li>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Directions:</span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Make filling while dough rests. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Fill a bowl with cold water. </span></div>
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3-4 minutes, until tender. Transfer the greens to the bowl of cold water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drain water and/or replace with more cold
water. Grab small handfuls of greens and squeeze out as much water as
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Course chop the cooked greens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil over medium heat in a large skillet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add the onions and a pinch of salt. Cook, until
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Add greens, the za’atar, and chickpeas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adjust seasonings as necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Add a 1/2-1 tbsp olive oil if the mixture looks dry.</span></span></div>
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Beat the eggs in a large bowl. Crumble in the feta and stir in the greens
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</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dust a large work surface with flour
and turn out the dough. Roll out into a thin round, 16 to 18 inches in
diameter. Line a sheet pan with parchment and place the round in the middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The round will not fit on the pan at this
point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">[Use a sheet pan that will fit in
your freezer unless you are going to skip the freezing step (see my thoughts below).]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Place the filling in the middle of
the rolled out pastry and spread it to a circle, leaving a 3 or 4-inch margin
all the way around the pastry. Fold the edges in over the filling, pleating
them to cover the filling and drawing them up to the middle of the galette, so
that the filling is enclosed. The finished galette should be about 10 to 11
inches in diameter. There can be a small circle of exposed filling in the
middle but it shouldn’t be more than an inch in diameter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cover with plastic wrap and place in
the freezer for 45 minutes to an hour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[I
left mine on the back porch because it was snowing.]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heat oven to 375 degrees.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">**I’m going to skip the freezing
step next time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think this is
necessary – I baked some mini-galette snacks while this galette was chilling,
and the minis were just fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Brush the galette with egg wash, and place in the oven. Bake until golden brown
– 45 minutes in my oven. Let sit for at least 15 minutes before serving. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Additional Info from Shulman’s recipe: </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Advance
preparation:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The finished tart is delicious at
room temperature and will hold out of the refrigerator for several hours. The
filling can be made through Step 4 up to four days ahead and kept in the
refrigerator. The assembled galette can be frozen for up to a month. Double
wrap with plastic wrap before freezing. Transfer directly from the freezer to
the oven for baking; increase baking time by 10 to 15 minutes. </span></div>
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<span id="goog_1309807454"></span><span id="goog_1309807455"></span><br />nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-13439154919752352562013-02-13T16:09:00.000-06:002013-02-13T16:09:05.288-06:00Recent Finished ProjectsI've quilted some, but not a ton, during the past year. Here are some pics of recently finished projects.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacob's Baby Quilt. Roughly 42" x 42". Design adapted from a recent magazine...(it's here somewhere...). Finished November 2012.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I Heart Trapunto. Roughly 16" x 16". Design adapted from a template provided by Philippa Naylor. Begun as a class sample in a class about trapunto at the 2010 Quilt Festival in Houston. Finished January 2013.</td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Note: The
following essay is adapted from the eulogy I gave at my father’s funeral on
December 12, 2011.</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad, December 25, 2009</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have
always adored my father, so much so that I have sometimes denied his faults – though
he had as many as the rest of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, about a year ago, I found a Father’s Day poster I had made him
in school with fill-in-the-blank sentences that started with “I love my dad
because….”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty or twenty-five years
later, those statements still ring true: “I love my dad because he has messy
hair.” And, “I love my dad because he loves me.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When not lost in thought, Dad was an electric
current whizzing through rooms, sending off sparks of love, sarcasm, irreverence,
and occasionally, taskmaster. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That someone
who worked so hard, without complaint, to take care of his body in order to
live has died is unfair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, Dad
wouldn’t have wanted anyone to be melancholy on his behalf. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly before my grandfather died, Dad and I
sat in a room as he told me about the preparations he had made for the looming
funeral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With tears in his eyes, he told
me, “Life is so profound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all
only one breath away from death.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
expressing emotion was not Dad’s forte, he usually reflected on life in more
matter-of-fact tones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, a
month before he died, I told Dad about a student I wanted to help but could not
because of school policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad said, “Let
it go.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I repeated the story a few
days later, he said, “Nat, get over it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t ruin your weekend ruminating over this.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dad talked
often about the fact that life is unfair. He, however, was blessed with more
than his fair share of luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His luck
began when my grandmother, Emma, married Herman Jacobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poppy, as I called him, was a grown-up kid,
and my dad loved him dearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Poppy’s
funeral a few years ago, Dad talked about the fact that Poppy never met a
person he couldn’t befriend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told
those gathered that knowing Poppy reminded him it was worthwhile to make
friends. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greasy and Poppy (Emma and Herman Jacobs), Date unknown</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Most people
haven’t ever heard Dad complain about the horror of having company over or
having to make an appearance at a social event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What they do know is that once the party started, Dad had the time of
his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He might have stolen the
showing, out-talked the host, or laughed so hard he nearly cried. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seems to have been friends with every
person he came into contact with, from the guard at the office building to
court reporters to strangers bicycling in Holiday Park to the judges he
addressed with nicknames such as, “Georgie Baby.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dad was
lucky throughout life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was lucky to
break his arm badly enough in the 70s that he missed serving active duty in the
Vietnam War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was lucky to have a form
of prostate cancer that grew slowly over a period of years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was lucky to have had numerous heart
“events” but never a heart attack until last Thursday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also lucky to have a wife who
tolerated his absentmindedness and who knew how to keep him in line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did, by the way, love my mom dearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My dad was
most lucky to know that he was lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
didn’t take being alive for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
didn’t moan and groan about aches and pains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Simply put, he got up each day and lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am a
teacher, and this past year, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how alike
the classroom is to the world at large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We adults are not much different than a class of tenth-graders – for
better or worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I love most about
teaching is seeing glimpses of the little kids inside the pubescent minds and
bodies of my high schoolers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being
around my dad was also a regular reminder of the joy and power of childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Foremost
among the outstanding qualities of kids is a willingness to ask questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad had an insatiable curiosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He always wanted to know more, whether the
topic be brewing beer, the Civil War, or playing ukulele, which he started to
do two days before dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad in one of my parents' many gardens.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My dad was
also passionate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His hobbies changed
regularly, but he was 100 percent focused on whatever had caught his
interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At home, this meant he might answer
a question incompletely or that he was leaving track marks on floor as he paced
back and forth talking to himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes, when I called and asked, “What are you doing?” all I heard
was silence on his end of the phone line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once re-engaged with the rest of the world, someone – Mom, one of the
kids, a neighbor, a friend – was going to learn something new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like a kid,
my dad had an unvarnished sense of right and wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike most adults who protect themselves or
their interests with a flexible perception of right and wrong, my dad always
stood by his beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charlie Smith
wrote <a href="http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/dfw/guestbook.aspx?n=robert-ford&pid=154959970&cid=full" target="_blank">this comment</a> in response to Dad’s obituary</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
“</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bobby
was and will always be remembered as a man of great character. He never failed
to do the right thing no matter the consequences to himself.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What Charlie wrote is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Bob’s daughter, I found his steadfastness sometimes
infuriating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whining and cheap arguments
rarely changed his views.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
did get my father to make a concession concerning the cell phone bill,
however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of Dad’s death, I
was thirty and engaged to be married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
had allowed me to stay on the family cell phone plan for about eight years – a situation
he and my mother found embarrassing and galling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The extra line cost $10 per month, and I paid
him $30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In actuality, the plan cost
about $15 after taxes.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In recent years,
Dad had tried to foist me off the cell phone plan, but I made an agreement with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would allow me to stay on the
plan until I got a job that paid more money or until I got married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I was engaged, Dad told his friends he
couldn’t wait to get my line off the cell phone bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, I stayed on for five months after
the wedding, but surely he knows now that I am completely and permanently
financially independent.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite photos of Dad. He was demonstrating his skill as an Olympic gymnast. Sacramento, California.</td></tr>
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most brazen of kids, my dad loved to make jokes and laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike those kids who grow up to be school
bullies, my dad’s jokes were never the sugar-coating for venom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some neighbors stopped by to pay their
condolences on Saturday, and they laughed as they recalled Dad rolling down the
window of his car to yell, “Get off the street” as he drove by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was not one to say “I love you”; instead,
he gave the people he cared about a great deal of heck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This includes having answered the telephone
in hundreds of different voices, and when I was away at camp in high school, telling
a friend I couldn’t come to the phone because I was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad once hid behind parked cars in a garage,
waiting to jump out, in order to scare a secretary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reveled in taking photos of strangers
walking in parks while on vacation in San Francisco with my mother, stood on
the table to sing opera, and during one of many impulsive moments, put shoe
polish on his head to mask the spot where he had shaven off too much hair.</span></div>
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the funeral, my family informed me that I related the shoe-polish story
inaccurately, so I will amend that story now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dad had decided to cut his own hair with an electric razor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother had cut her hair before, and my
brother regularly shaved his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can
only guess that these facts were encouragement to my father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad pulled out the razor and buzzed
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guard was not on, and he
shaved off too much hair on one side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One could clearly see scalp through the hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other side soon matched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an effort to correct his mistake, my
father applied shoe polish to the overly-shorn spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shoe polish didn’t help much, except to
add hilarity to the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, like
I said before, I loved Dad’s messy hair.</span></div>
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working in a profession with a dark side, Dad retained a trusting nature and
was not cynical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He believed, without
fail, in a justice system in which all individuals’ rights are protected – one
in which all judges and attorneys fulfilled their duties honorably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the midst of making prosecutors scramble in
court, Dad would do something like loan $7 to a homeless man on his way out of
the office, believing he would be repaid but laughing when he was not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps his greatest success as a criminal
defense attorney was his appeal of Chelsea Richardson’s case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I understand it, his work on that case was
equal parts defense of Chelsea and a repudiation of prosecutorial negligence.</span></div>
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mom once told me that she had asked my dad what he missed most from the
past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This happened after a number of
life-changing events had occurred, and Dad told her that he missed family
dinners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For decades, mom had cooked
meals from scratch, and the five of us would sit down to eat dinner, sometimes
in near silence, sometimes in a noise-filled room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting around the dining room table is the
image that comes to mind when I think of Home.</span></div>
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am so grateful that we had many family dinners in the weeks preceding my father’s
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful that the day before
my dad died, I told him a story about Cheese Whiz that made him laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful he and Gina last talked to one
another in gangsta voices about gangsta activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful that Paul assumed the role of
head of household in the days after Dad disappeared, and I am grateful that Dad
approved of the Christmas decorations mom had put up the last day he was alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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died doing what he loved, bicycling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
and I rode together for a period of time, and he frequently told me that he
felt best physically when he was on the bike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dad died knowing we loved him, and I, for one, know that he loved me,
even though he refused to give me a hug upon request.</span></div>
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remembrance of my father, I will find moments today and everyday thereafter to
be conscious of life – to feel, to laugh, to acknowledge what I have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing that and occasionally dropping an
F-bomb for no good reason are the best Bob Ford tributes there are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-18648753053762419902011-08-02T06:46:00.002-05:002011-08-02T06:55:51.570-05:00Airing the Family Laundry<span xmlns=""></span><br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">My most recent customer is responsible for bringing a quilt to the annual Graves Family Reunion. The names of over just over 50 family members (or family groups) are included on the quilt, and the quilt is raffled off during the course of the reunion.</span></span><br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">In recent years, the names of family members were machine-embroidered onto pieces of fabric and then sewn into the quilt top; however, hiring someone else to machine embroider the names can be very expensive. I called two or three shops and received quotes of $250 to $450 for the number of blocks in this quilt. As a more economical alternative, I suggested that this year's quilt have the family members' names printed (via ink jet printer) onto fabric.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">Crafters who shop at Joann's and Michael's may have seen paper-backed fabric made by June Tailor or another company. This fabric is expensive and a pain to work with. The paper backing on the fabric has some sort of adhesive on it, and I have never been able to peel off the entire backing. Some always sticks to the fabric. For this quilt, I used fabric treated with Bubble Jet Set 2000 by C. Jenkins (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.cjenkinscompany.com">www.cjenkinscompany.com</a>). </span></span><br />
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<span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;"> In order to print, just iron freezer paper onto the back of each sheet of fabric. I made the mistake of not trimming off a couple threads, and the printer revolted – once I got that problem fixed, printing was smooth sailing.<br />
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</span></span></div><span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">Because this quilt had to be made quickly, I used a pattern rather than work one out on my own. Published by Fig Tree & Co. (Joanna Figueroa), the pattern is called "Twinkle" and is made up of just two repeating blocks.<br />
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</span></span></div><span xmlns=""><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">I also hired the Cowtown Quilter, Jerry Mundine, to do the quilting with a long-arm machine. He did a great job and had a quick turnaround. </span></span><br />
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</span> </span>nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-16098058143281863872011-07-03T17:20:00.000-05:002011-07-03T17:20:21.125-05:00Merry Christmas, Much Belated<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87b78bMW-hTuKbeD8ieZOUwWlFyVk3Zew0jjjEIuGcTc5brvybQrEuMKq7wPkuuYI6BKZPijUcnOaF_kljSFreS2UWDm38yfc1RVyTUh4CMjbh0Ef3CQHlGdXXKOig-fqcCt_q-lgvftu/s1600/Gina+Pillow+Finished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87b78bMW-hTuKbeD8ieZOUwWlFyVk3Zew0jjjEIuGcTc5brvybQrEuMKq7wPkuuYI6BKZPijUcnOaF_kljSFreS2UWDm38yfc1RVyTUh4CMjbh0Ef3CQHlGdXXKOig-fqcCt_q-lgvftu/s400/Gina+Pillow+Finished.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
I started this pillow approximately six years ago. I was living in NYC and had taken a Hawaiian applique class. At some point, I decided to make a pillow for my sister for Christmas, and when Christmas arrived, I had the applique and quilting done -- but no finished product.<br />
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The finished pillow is filled with stuffing and sewn shut. I wanted to make a pillow cover with invisible zipper; alas, I got frustrated. As a friend used to tell me, "Better done than perfect."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-15507855205385048112011-04-27T18:54:00.000-05:002011-04-27T18:54:38.072-05:00For the Love of TCU<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>For the Love of TCU</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Original design, piecing, and hand-guided machine quilting by Natalie Ford.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dimensions: TBA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">April 27, 2011</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Design and photographs ©Natalie Ford – All rights reserved.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">__________________________________________</div><br />
I just finished another T-shirt quilt -- just after 7:00 this morning. I had created a hand-written tag for the quilt, but the pen I used had too fine a tip, and the ink looked faded after a turn in the wash. I ran into Joann's and bought a pack of 8.5" x 11" fabric/paper yesterday afternoon. The ink stuck well and the label looks more polished, but getting the paper backing off is a bear.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This a birthday gift. The gift-giver will sign her name in the blank space.<br />
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</tbody></table>This lap quilt is for a TCU fan; since he didn't have a horned frog T-shirt collection already, I picked out nine shirts at Academy about a month after the football team won the Rose Bowl.<br />
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The quilting is my favorite part, and I have to remind myself not to make my designs too small or intricate. I am very pleased with the trace of the quilting on the back (notice that the clusters of smaller flowers versus larger flowers affect the brightness of the quilt).<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Despite having always said that I would never do machine embroidery, I changed course as I constructed this quilt. I created the words "horned frogs" using my grandmother's Bernina Artista, which has a machine embroidery module. Once I got the thread and fabric tension sorted out, the embroidery went quickly.<br />
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Below are a few close-ups. Enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final inches.<br />
April 25, 2011<br />
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</div>nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-7469964688753860142011-03-20T17:31:00.000-05:002011-03-20T17:31:44.094-05:00Scenes from the Construction of a Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>This week is Spring Break, and I've made progress on my latest commission. The T-shirts in this quilt are new -- purchased specifically for use in a lap quilt. I believe there are nine T-shirts (some had usable logos on front and back). </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The central panel (above) isn't large enough to form the finished quilt, so I decided to pull out the embroidery module for my sewing machine in order to learn to use it. After lots of trial and error, I ended up with this:</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oops...I mean this:</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I knew even before I had finished spelling out "Horned Frogs" in machine applique that I wanted the words to spill over the side of the quilt. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the way, I constructed the remainder of the quilt top at a retreat at Our House in Milford. It was a pleasant, productive evening, and I look forward to returning to the facility.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Unfortunately, I don't have a nice, pretty photo of the quilt before I basted the layers together with safety pins. Therefore, the final quilt design looks rather ragged in the pic below:</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As usual, I am doing the quilting on my sturdy Bernina. I do free-motion quilting and haven't used a template or drawn out the design before I sit down to quilt. The view below is of the back, so you can see the quilting more clearly.</div><br />
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Original design by Natalie Ford.<br />
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Copyright Natalie Ford 2010nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-32429371875131812572010-10-28T07:05:00.001-05:002010-10-28T07:31:25.071-05:00Getting What You Want<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">"Be careful what you ask for. You might get what you want. [<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/muffingate-or-the-making-of-a-pbs-style-euphemism/4524/">You stupid monkey fighter</a>.]"</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">This typical refrain to statements that begin with, "I want..." follows most of us, or at least me, all over the place. A year ago, celebrating an annual marker of sorts, I said of the upcoming year, "Bring it on!" If I were <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh">Sherlock Holmes</a> and had an arch enemy, she would have begun laughing: "Mwah ha ha." (</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">On the same anniversary this past September, I avoided any statements that might antagonize the universe.)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">So, what's the lesson here? Never ask for what you want? Figure out how to tap into your 90-year old self with its lifetime of wisdom before you speak?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Perhaps all of us should proceed with caution--but without becoming cynical. Over the past month and a half, I have begun to receive exactly what I asked for. The gifts could not be any better: a library card, many wishes to "sleep tight", laughter, requests to make plans a month from now, public displays of affection (ranging from holding hands to Facebook announcements), and countless other instances of "as you wish." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The only similarity this instance of getting what I want has with others that have made me cringe is that the results are nothing like I expected. I'll admit that I am sometimes terrified. I want what I have asked for (keep it coming!) but don't always know how to accept it. Life seems to work the other way around, usually. I look down and think, "There's a pile of poo in my lap. Do I really have to take time to figure out how to clean it up?" After using up countless paper towels and taking many hot baths, I move along and attempt to behave as though I am one experience wiser.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Now, though, all the usual lessons, fraught with the threat of "you're going to regret doing this," are lined up on the windowsill. What I need to do is pull out a duster and push them outside. Instead of detailed analysis of every possibility, the dual meanings of every word, the possible outcomes five days or five years from now, I realize that I need to spend less time being careful. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">And, you know what? At least for now, I don't seem to have asked for too much. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Bring it on, baby. I'm not always going to know what to do, but I suspect it's time to learn some life lessons about being happy and sharing experiences with someone who contributes as much, if not more, just because he wants to. Imagine that.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sometimes, you get exactly what you ask for, and it's one sweet deal.</span></span></div><div><br />
</div>nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-26637612165459726732010-10-15T10:08:00.002-05:002010-10-15T10:08:57.574-05:00Life is Like a CupcakeMusings created during a writing activity with students calle "Life is..."<br />
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Life is Like a Cupcake<br />
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Life is like a cupcake, a concoction of ingredients topped with frosting that becomes something unique. The liner represents our beginnings – the place from which we each come. Some cupcake liners are pink; others are yellow. Still others are silicone. Each of us has a different background and upbringing, and it is this structure that shapes us into who we are.<br />
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The recipe for making cupcakes is like life’s rules. Instead of adding three eggs and beating until frothy, we follow the Golden Rule and determine whether each of our actions is appropriate for the situation at hand. The resulting batter, poured into the paper liners and baked in the oven becomes a cupcake, which is like each person. It’s size, shape, texture, and appeal is determined by which ingredients have been added to the batter.<br />
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Each cupcake, no matter how carefully made, turns out slightly different. Each of us is unique, though like cupcakes, we come in batches. We grow up in a community, a society at large, just as cupcakes come in groups of 12 or 24. In addition, the texture of cupcakes is neither liquid smooth nor teeth-cracking hard. Life isn’t either; events, situations, and feelings can be described in shades of gray, with right or wrong, true or false hard to define. <br />
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The frosting on top of the cupcake defines the cupcake as more than a muffin – it becomes dessert. The frosting is like our families and friends, the people who make life worth living. The sprinkles and cherries represent those joyous moments in life that are sometimes spread far apart. They exist, nonetheless, and make life worth living and the cupcake worth eating.<br />
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Life is like a cupcake, a combination of separate ingredients that, when combined, become rich and exciting.nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-3371581580610442842010-09-30T07:22:00.001-05:002010-09-30T07:24:15.384-05:00Hunting Fruit FliesFor the last day or so, I've been swatting at fruit flies in the kitchen. Just now, one joined me at the computer. I have become an obsessed hunter, like a cat chasing a horse fly or Rainsford and Zaroff hunting one another in <i>The Most Dangerous Game</i>. This morning alone, I've dedicated at least half an hour to crushing those nearly invisible buggers with my bare hands.<br />
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"Whack!" I try again to catch one of the remaining flies, but it's to no avail. "Clap!" I try stopping one mid-flight by catching it between my palms. What has been most frustrating during this early morning hunting season is that each time I kill one of the last two fruit flies and think, "Ah, ha! Only one more," another appears. The pesky insects seems able to clone themselves in air.<br />
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Fruit flies are annoying, yes, but this simple fact does not explain my persistence in tracking the fruit flies' flights through the kitchen, alarming the cats with the crashing sounds I make as I smack the counter, the stove top, the refrigerator door, the toaster, the waffle iron, the ledge of the sink. I am having my own private taping of <i>Man vs. Wild</i>, and I fully intend to defeat the wild. Fruit flies, watch out. Nothing else, not even knitting, interests me right now. It's your soul I am after. <br />
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Or...maybe, it's some control that I'm after. Worrying about fruit flies in the kitchen and defeating them, only millimeters long, is a reprieve from the rest of the world, where I am one of billions of fruit flies.nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-89706273453784581192010-09-06T13:34:00.000-05:002010-09-06T13:34:34.028-05:00Feathered Dragons<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My role as Dragon Lady has come to an end -- the quilt is done.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Aidan (Feathered Dragons)"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commission</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sept. 5, 2010</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">42" x 53.5"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Original design.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Machine pieced.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand-guided, free-motion quilting.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Wednesday, we visited two yarn stores, Gauge and the Knitting Nest. Gauge is smallish and nice with a basic selection of yarns. The Knitting Nest is located in a larger, airy space with tons of wonderful natural lighting. The owner was friendly and helpful -- and there was plenty to look at. We ate dinner at a fabulous (and inexpensive) Mediterranean restaurant called Marakesh. It's on Congress, about a block from the capitol. Yum, yum, yum.</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We retreated to the hotel to knit -- which is required when you drive three hours to another city for the sole purpose of visiting yarn stores. Two notes: We stayed in room 908, and we didn't have any alcohol <i>at all.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I did make a trip to the ice machine but got a bit worried on the way back because I wasn't sure about the room number. It didn't help that my key didn't work in the door of 908. I knocked, certain that an angry, hairy man in a bathrobe would open the door and yell at me, but it was just Stephanie. </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>Interlude: </b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Just so you don't get bored because I don't have pictures of the places we visited, here's the yarn I purchased while in Austin:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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In any case, yesterday morning, Stephanie went to work out and took the good key with her. I ventured downstairs to check out the outdoor pool and decided I wanted to swim. On my way back upstairs, I stopped at the front desk and asked for a new key. The woman asked what room, and I said "308." Name on the account? I gave her a name -- nope, not it. I thought for a while and realized I was in room 908. The woman was not impressed.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">New key in hand, I went upstairs to change and headed back downstairs to take a huge, splashy jump into the pool. Unfortunately, I first had to use my keycard to open the gate in the (matching) metal fence. The directions for entering the pool area were very clear: Insert card, turn handle, pull gate. So, that's what I did. Nothing happened. I tried again.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Well, a hotel employee walked past and told me I could just reach over and open the gate from the inside. Again, I turned the handle and pulled. Hard. Nothing happened. The guy leaned over and--Ta da!--the gate flew open. Why could he do it and not me? He pulled on the gate......I pulled on the fence.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">But wait! The story continues. I splashed around in the pool, dried off, and headed to the restaurant to order breakfast. I read the paper, did most of a crossword, and enjoyed a humongous omelet. The waiter brought the check, and I wrote down my room number. Room 908, right?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Before we checked out, I made a final run downstairs to check email and look up directions to a quilt shop (The Quilt Store -- fabulous, bright, cheery fabrics) and check email. I also returned the ice machine on the ninth floor. When I went back to the room, I saw room 910 and assumed I was in front of 908. I slid my keycard into the lock and saw a flashing red light. I tried again. Nothing. I thought, "Really, why can't this hotel make workable keycards?" The answer is that the hotel's guest was trying to enter room 912. Ay ya yai.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Of course, I immediately told Stephanie what I had done, and she laughed in disbelief. We agreed that I do need a longer summer vacation, possibly involving my being locked into my bedroom. We then went downstairs to check the bill and make sure everything was in order. Interestingly enough, no breakfast had been charged to the account. There were now two people behind the counter: the woman who had made me a new key and an extremely tall man. The man dashed into the restaurant to check the receipts. The woman looked at me and said, "You thought you were in room 308 earlier...." </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Yep. I did. And when I signed the breakfast bill, I wrote down that I was staying in 308. Whoever stayed in that room had double the breakfast charges. The woman behind the counter was still unimpressed with me, I was giggling, and Stephanie kept reassuring the man that she had never walked on a bill. At least not until she used her credit card to reserve a room that I was sharing with her!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">As we exited the front doors of the hotel, the man behind the counter yelled, "Remember, don't drink and drive!" You, of course, know that I had had no alcohol at all.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">All I could stay to Stephanie as we got into the car was this: "Are you glad your son was a student in my class for a year?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">In my defense, it's still summer vacation until Monday, Aug. 8 at 8:00 a.m. The kids don't come back until the 18th. I have time to get myself sorted out.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Note: I did consume alcohol in the form of Dried Cherry and Pecan Bread Pudding with Bourbon Cream Sauce later in the day. Try it yourself at the South Congress Cafe, which serves delicious foods during brunch and dinner. I also had a goat cheese salad, but Stephanie and I both discussed the temptation of Carrot Cake French Toast.</i></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The good news: The applique is firmly attached now, and I'm waiting for the momma-to-be to get home from work, so I can deliver the quilt!</div>nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4183533029893228315.post-14327540527345325732010-06-08T21:16:00.000-05:002010-06-08T21:16:03.264-05:00Time for a Delivery!Fortunately, I am not pregnant and don't have an impending labor pains; however, the Baby McCarty quilt is finished and ready for drop-off tomorrow. It's in the wash right now, leaving me to wonder if anything will unravel or unknot in the next hour or so....Pics tomorrow.nattiebughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04134101373876732328noreply@blogger.com0