'twixt and 'tween
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threadwalkerHow can you tell it’s not going to be a productive day? You look for excuses to do anything but work. And I have too much work to be doing that. heh! back to it momentarily.
Lately I've been really uninspired to make stuff or what umph I've had has been short term. Partially I've got little steam left when I'm done at work (not a complaint because I like my job and my boss, it's just that I'm swamped). I also think it's because I'm process driven and the end results, though nice, are a side-effect of the process. Now I'm all fired up and it's the process that has me jazzed.
Session one of the 1066-1211 AD Norman/Saxon workshop was last night. The workshop is for my students and close friends, so it's not very big. Last night HRJ presented on surviving garments for more than an hour and discussed "the database of doom". It was universally desired to have the special remote access and password to the database! I had no idea there was such a vast number of surviving things. Wow! The advantage of having SOMEONE ELSE present research was there was so much that was new to me. And today I am (predictably) fired up and ready to run.
Sadly, I had to be the follow-up act to the headliner last night. Oh, well. I discussed art for 45 minutes. Everyone looked glazed by the time we were done. I think I might have seen drool spilling from the corner of someone’s mouth! Heh.
What we need to do next (which is a "process" thing!!!), is take the information that's available and come up with a "plan". Based on the glazed looks last night, I have a game plan. woot. My to-do list for the next workshop to help people visualize what they are making:
1. Color charts of fiber color. Based on what’s survived (standard caviat about color-fastness, time and UV) and what my soon-to-be replaced dye books say about natural dyes (The whole lot of them have vanished. Did I loan them out? I thought I didn’t loan my books out. Did I drag them off to a corner of the house to read and leave them there? Sigh.)
2. Suggested fabric cutting layouts from published sources and my own notes as a handout.
3. decorative motifs from art
4. Mock-ups conveniently sized for my kids (heh!)
In the meantime, I’m also doodling with some linen because HRJ had stuff from Abegg about gathered fabric. I’m doing this without reading anyone else’s theories because I want to wrap my brain around it without being pre-disposed to someone else’s solution. I want to “feel” the fiber and "walk with thread".
Anyway, I’ve got 2 weeks to do all this.
And I'm all jazzed about collegium again because of the "process" of it.
I just got the paperwork for the site, so I can forward that the Herr Seneschal. (woot). I need to schedule time to walk the site with Chef Juana. I need a web minister (probably me) and I need to pull together all the teachers I already have. I also need to contact my proposed fall site and get on their calendar. In a few months I need to visit that site, too, with A.S. to see if it meets her culinary art needs. (Heh!) I’ll be glad when my schedule isn’t driven by the need to keep this event moving. I look forward attending and supporting without being the engineer. Even though I enjoy the process, it absorbs so much of my sparse free time (i.e. the hours when I'm supposed to be asleep), that it will feel good to pass the event off in good shape to whomever takes it next. Hopefully I’ll have enough in place for the fall event that whomever follows me will be able to step into the fall event and pick it up without undue fuss. Ideally 90% of the pre-event leg work will be done and they'll have to follow-up on the items-of-the day.
Forecast: not a lot of sleep. I’m definitely going to need to be efficient in my time at home and keeping the family on a schedule.
Sigh. Looks like it’s a good weekend to stay home and work on all this Collegium stuff. Well, except for the Chieftains, who we’re seeing on Saturday night at the loverly Fox Theater. (Woot!) And tonight is movie night with the kids – they are clamoring for the ScoobyDoo movie, Monsters Unleashed. So it will be popcorn, un-cola, jammies and lights-out with lawn chairs in the family room. And Roobie-Doobie-doo. It’s quite the scene – they look like they are in a drive-in. hee, hee, hee.
Lately I've been really uninspired to make stuff or what umph I've had has been short term. Partially I've got little steam left when I'm done at work (not a complaint because I like my job and my boss, it's just that I'm swamped). I also think it's because I'm process driven and the end results, though nice, are a side-effect of the process. Now I'm all fired up and it's the process that has me jazzed.
Session one of the 1066-1211 AD Norman/Saxon workshop was last night. The workshop is for my students and close friends, so it's not very big. Last night HRJ presented on surviving garments for more than an hour and discussed "the database of doom". It was universally desired to have the special remote access and password to the database! I had no idea there was such a vast number of surviving things. Wow! The advantage of having SOMEONE ELSE present research was there was so much that was new to me. And today I am (predictably) fired up and ready to run.
Sadly, I had to be the follow-up act to the headliner last night. Oh, well. I discussed art for 45 minutes. Everyone looked glazed by the time we were done. I think I might have seen drool spilling from the corner of someone’s mouth! Heh.
What we need to do next (which is a "process" thing!!!), is take the information that's available and come up with a "plan". Based on the glazed looks last night, I have a game plan. woot. My to-do list for the next workshop to help people visualize what they are making:
1. Color charts of fiber color. Based on what’s survived (standard caviat about color-fastness, time and UV) and what my soon-to-be replaced dye books say about natural dyes (The whole lot of them have vanished. Did I loan them out? I thought I didn’t loan my books out. Did I drag them off to a corner of the house to read and leave them there? Sigh.)
2. Suggested fabric cutting layouts from published sources and my own notes as a handout.
3. decorative motifs from art
4. Mock-ups conveniently sized for my kids (heh!)
In the meantime, I’m also doodling with some linen because HRJ had stuff from Abegg about gathered fabric. I’m doing this without reading anyone else’s theories because I want to wrap my brain around it without being pre-disposed to someone else’s solution. I want to “feel” the fiber and "walk with thread".
Anyway, I’ve got 2 weeks to do all this.
And I'm all jazzed about collegium again because of the "process" of it.
I just got the paperwork for the site, so I can forward that the Herr Seneschal. (woot). I need to schedule time to walk the site with Chef Juana. I need a web minister (probably me) and I need to pull together all the teachers I already have. I also need to contact my proposed fall site and get on their calendar. In a few months I need to visit that site, too, with A.S. to see if it meets her culinary art needs. (Heh!) I’ll be glad when my schedule isn’t driven by the need to keep this event moving. I look forward attending and supporting without being the engineer. Even though I enjoy the process, it absorbs so much of my sparse free time (i.e. the hours when I'm supposed to be asleep), that it will feel good to pass the event off in good shape to whomever takes it next. Hopefully I’ll have enough in place for the fall event that whomever follows me will be able to step into the fall event and pick it up without undue fuss. Ideally 90% of the pre-event leg work will be done and they'll have to follow-up on the items-of-the day.
Forecast: not a lot of sleep. I’m definitely going to need to be efficient in my time at home and keeping the family on a schedule.
Sigh. Looks like it’s a good weekend to stay home and work on all this Collegium stuff. Well, except for the Chieftains, who we’re seeing on Saturday night at the loverly Fox Theater. (Woot!) And tonight is movie night with the kids – they are clamoring for the ScoobyDoo movie, Monsters Unleashed. So it will be popcorn, un-cola, jammies and lights-out with lawn chairs in the family room. And Roobie-Doobie-doo. It’s quite the scene – they look like they are in a drive-in. hee, hee, hee.
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