Housekeeping Again: Resubscribe with new service follow.it

 

Feedburner is dead, or will be shortly.

I could take all your emails and drop them in another service, but that seems rude.

So, if you want to keep getting whatever it is I am serving, you will have to subscribe with this widget for follow.it

https://follow.it/about

They promise not to be jerks. 

We shall see.

It's down towards the bottom of the blog, below the monster label cloud (that got big and not so useful. I will have to reconsider).

Putting it at the top looked really rude. I cannot make it smaller

but there it is.

Actual sewing content soon

Follow by email? A little housekeeping news

 

If you get this blog by email, that is going to change.

I can let it go, or find a service that will accomplish that.

Whaddya want? Any suggestions for replacement services?

Let me know in the comments.

Housekeeping Note: Switching to Fridays

 I am taking a college accounting class this fall, as well as working, and my homework is due on Sunday night. 

I just finished my homework for today, and really can't wrap my brain around editing photos and wrangling captions and in-bedding videos and talking about sewing for work. 

Which I have been doing, and I have thoughts. The Pekka jacket is on version three, heading for four.

This is version two, the elephant version without the midpanel princess seams.

Four! And I hated it out of the gate. Go figure.

I have been trying be consistent about keeping a schedule on this here blog/storage shed , and trying to publish on Sunday nights. That's not going to happen for awhile, so I am shifting to Friday nights.

You can always read it Sunday night.

Or Monday morning.

It's a pandemic. What is time?

 and yes I am shameless

https://www.zazzle.com/i_am_going_to_survive_this_espresso_cup-183297920927885084

The Middle of the Night // Creation Myths and Rituals

Stolen from Seamwork again.

I take my inspiration where I can get it.

I feel compelled to point out that Ms Tharp is a taskmaster who does not suffer much.

I'm putting REG in here because I love him.
Deal with it.

My sewing ritual is more of a unruly thing that i am trying to change.

For the last..... twenty-two years, I have been someone's on-call, in house mother.

The sons have both been out of the house for the last year, but those years have burnt a few habits into me, habits I would like to break.

That is: I can't start doing anything creative until after bedtime. 9pm.
And this is annoying, as I have other hours I could be doing this stuff in.

As much fun I have at the expense of them, I do get inspiration from the Seamwork/Collette emails, and the idea of the sewing ritual reminded me how I have been avoiding my problem with it.

Yes, I'm going to illustrate this with GIFs.
I consider writing stuff down as a form of "I will do what I said I would do", and I can think of no better scold that Dwayne Johnson. Mr Whupass.

A friend of mine and I passed a can of Whoopass (shown below) back and forth as a  "get 'er done" reminder to do what we had said we would. We finally opened it, and it was piss yellow and ghastly as hell. Ice cold would be the only way you'd get er down.

https://bevwire.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/jones-whoopass.jpg I no longer have the can, but you can be sure I looked for it for twenty minutes because this blog isn't getting down slowly enough

My sewing process, my 'creative' process doesn't really start until after dinner and the dishes have been done and the kids are in bed.

But the kids do that somewhere else now. There's no reason for me to wait.

But I still can't get going until about....9pm. Even on days where I have the whole day to work on a project for me, I just can't get the juice going until the sun comes down.
I'm writing this at 10:15pm. and editing it at 6:16pm a day or two later, while I'm cooking dinner.
Or burning it, I should say.

It soaks out pretty well, though. We ate the not-burnt stuff in the middle with a lot of peanut butter and coconut milk mixed in. Tasted just like peanut butter with coconuts.

Luckily I can start earlier if it's a work project. Hemming would not get done in time if it only happened from 10pm - 1am. Same thing for costumes and mending jobs.
And now it's 10:19pm.

I keep a notebook on me at all times. I find no matter what time it is, I can do some good thinking with a pencil in my hand, and I am getting a little better at spreading that creative time over the day. Instead of opening up the phone, I open up the notebook.

I am also trying to make myself keep office hours in the cave. 
Which, like Vegas, is open 24 hours.
It could be some of the hours during the day.
However, I did spend time letting dinner burn making this a pretty GIF of worthiness.

I am not worthy but he is.
This is clearly a work in progress.

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Mary had to lean way over to stoop to my level.

I had a wonderful time chatting it up with Mary of PDXSquared at Seattle Frocktails yesterday evening; I was an honorary Stumptowner. Mocktail consumed, runway applauded, and bus stop right outside of event location was for my bus route. Practically perfect night for me.  Mary and I have never met in person before, and it's super nice to put a person to a social media account. 

@Pimpslapped does the twirl

Blogger, give me back my email notifications for comments

Part of my blogging is to keep up the information and the links on this blog and make them as current as I can, given that I am one human with a shrinking brain.

Google Blogger is taking away OpenID, which is annoying, and (most annoying) discontinuing comment notifications by email. Which means I won't see that you commented right away. More to the point, if you have a correction or a comment on an older post, I might not see it at all and continue to be wrongheaded when you tried to set me right.

https://blogger.googleblog.com/2018/05/its-spring-cleaning-time-for-blogger.html

I will make sure Anonymous is available. If you wouldn't mind putting your moniker in the comment, that would be more friendly like.

So if you're posting a comment, I may not see it. I set that moderation wall for comments on older posts, we'll see if that catches things.

I promise to check it regularly.

Meanwhile.....

I have prom photos to paw through, and a couple more photos to take. 

I said I didn't have any prom work this year.

Never say never.