So I finally got glasses. I had a pair years ago, picked while drunk and lost while drunk. They’d never been replaced because they were so expensive I thought all glasses were out of my financial reaches. So I asked for them for my birthday because reading was getting to be stupid. That’s me, today. [...]
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May 12, 2013
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Bad Endings
By Caitlin Jane in friends, loveThis is all I’m going to write about the last 2 months. A long time ago, 6 years, when I first got back together with Shannon, a lot of people weren’t terribly thrilled. My best friend at the time was particularly unhappy about it, she had been around during the first break up and she [...]
March 16, 2013
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Thank you
By Caitlin Jane in love, UncategorizedI will write more when the shit has been cleared from the fan but I really wanted to let everyone know that you’re being heard. I have read every kind email and message and I promise to reply to each one when things calm down a little. And an especially big thank you for all [...]
January 2, 2013
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It’s still Wednesday
By Caitlin Jane in friends, love, workI was sent this picture today and thought I should share it because we look so adorable in it. Me and my employer, Therasa. I’ve worked for her for more than 5 years now and most days feel like I am the third sister she never had (and realistically would probably hate me if I [...]
December 18, 2012
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More about the new space
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, daily grind, workHere are a couple more pictures that I posted on Instagram but probably need a more permanent home. My sewing area. I finally did a little Xmas sewing a couple days ago, that felt good. This is the other window, it’s in the middle of the south facing wall, between the previous window I posted [...]
December 13, 2012
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Moving on
By Caitlin Jane in a good day, daily grind, loveShannon and I moved on December 1. We actually traded spaces with a cooperative circus school, we went from about 3,500 square feet to about 1,000 square feet and the transition has been difficult and cathartic. We got rid of mountains of stuff, not only ours but furniture from the woman who had our old [...]
October 10, 2012
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Anxiety
By Caitlin Jane in hmmmm, making stuff is good, seriously?My best friend and I have opened an etsy shop. We had been talking about collaborating for a long time and finally came up with a name, a logo, and stock. For some reason, however, I find myself completely unable to actually put my baby quilts in the shop. I have no real excuse for [...]
September 28, 2012
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Old dog, new tricks
By Caitlin Jane in making stuff is goodThere’s this old footstool here, it’s incredibly ugly but a decent shape, so I’ve decided to recover it. Re cover. Which is it? I got some very awesome fabric and what I’m doing is called free motion quilting. You drop your feed dogs (the little teeth on your sewing machine that keep things flowing) and [...]
September 20, 2012
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Because no one asked
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, crochet, making stuff is goodI picked up 3 fat quarters of the new Heather Ross fabric, Nursery Versery, at The Workroom yesterday. Heather Ross is possibly my very best fabric designer and every time I look at the back of my green quilt I wish I’d saved some of her Far Far Away 2 line. Then I remember that [...]
September 19, 2012
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Knitting season
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, crochet, making stuff is goodThe weather has cooled considerably and I’ve resumed knitting. It helps that purl has posted a few simple but classic patterns. I also resume knitting this time of year because there is suddenly an influx of tv things to watch. This is the second version of this hat I’ve knit this week. One may well [...]