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Comment by viki hagan on August 31, 2012 at 11:12am

So true, I do need to get that dwr done.. but on the bright side, I won't lose the customer, she doesn't have anyone else to sew the dwr's for her. I am heading to the sewing room right now though. I said I'd put in a booth at the craft fair the humane society is having.. if nothing else, that should keep me motivated for the next month until the fair, gotta help all those puppies and cats and the stray rabbit or two...Thanks, Riana for the tough love, I definitely needed some.

Comment by Riana Noyes on August 31, 2012 at 10:40am

Viki, I know the feeling, BUT you have a paying customer waiting. And if you want to keep the paying customer(s), you'd better schedule in 1 hr. per day at the very least. Do it early enough in day so you have the rest of the day free to do whatever. Once you get tough with yourself and do it, you're self esteem will keep you going. Just give all those other projects a rest, they're siphoning off your energy. And as you pointed out, there's a limited quantity of that.Now get to work!!!

Comment by B. Sue Lohr on August 29, 2012 at 10:10pm

I hope you have been able to get past your slump!  Maybe you have too much on your plate with the UFO's?  Eat the elephant (one bite at a time).  I usually look at other people's quilts, or go to a good fabric store, to get past that feeling.  I have to haul everything out to my dining room to sew, but I'm just grateful I have the time and everything I need to be able to do it! 

Comment by the rogue quilter on August 28, 2012 at 8:59am

i miss new jersey for same reason. neighbors thought i was nuts. one even thought that the berries i was picking were poisonous. wild berries of all kinds grew along roads and in the woods around my house. lo bush blue berries, red & black raspberries, ground blackberries, dewberries (the "poisonous" berries lollol) but they all loved the jams & jellies i brought them! in northern california i hiked the forests picking red & black huckleberries. and of course the himalayan blackberries were everywhere, they grow here too, but i just found that out a few months ago. wild loganberry type berry grew where i used to live in northern ca. the second growth forests where i had picked huckleberries few yrs before had been clearcut. there were no more berries to be found.

thinking about maybe planting some berries under my fruit trees, but i am having more & more trouble maintaining what i have planted. and more trouble doing all the things i love to do as time goes on & the forever flu kicks in more frequently, & increasingly more severly. i hate it. so frustrating.

but this a.m. fresh crabapple jelly on whole grain toast for breakfast. the only reason to eat bread! well, except for fresh tomatoe & lettuce sandwich :)).

Comment by viki hagan on August 27, 2012 at 11:22pm

I haven't made any homemade jelly in a long time.. I miss Alabama for that, I had about two miles worth of wild blackberries that grew along the trail behind my house and a good friend that I worked with who grew blueberries, so we'd trade a few pounds so both of us could have both kinds.. but up here I don't know anyone with fruit growing at all... oh well.

Comment by the rogue quilter on August 27, 2012 at 9:36pm

...and another "by the way" ...since when have we restricted ourselves to "quilt related" huh? lollollol...giggle...so happy got my jelly done w/o mishap. :))

Comment by the rogue quilter on August 27, 2012 at 9:34pm

...or a mix of drops of dish soap alcohol and baking soda and pour over soil. also good for aphids, ants or whatever else ails ya lollol.

carla the enchiladas turned out great. bbq extra meat last weekend after cutting pork loin into steaks and roast for freezer. used that for the enchiladas. dh was surprised to have a "winter" meal in august, lollollol, but told him tired...cooking and cleaning for two days...fruit flies from all the fresh fruit i have been working with cleaned out, oven & kitchen already hot from white nectarine/cherry cobbler. so throw in enchiladas..a little mix ro freezer, four enchiladas w expected leftover for coming week. the operative word there was "expected". sigh!

yah viki...that 'ol tired thing does get in my way. my "forever flu" kicked in big time this am...but this afternoon i decided to go for it w the crab apple jelly. figured the worst that could happen is burn the jelly or have that hard rolling boil that can't stir down just bubble all over the kitchen. so i would have something else to clean :))!! but tho it took longer than should...knob set at lower temp than should be ...took me a while...actually QUITE a while to figure that one out lollollol. but got four large little jars of pretty pretty ruby wine colored crab apple jelly. my very favorite. so...the bad day became a whoohoo!! day!

Comment by viki hagan on August 27, 2012 at 9:33pm

lol.. I wanted them too after I read she was making them.. I settled for tacos, faster and easier for just one person

Comment by carla j walton on August 27, 2012 at 8:59pm

by the way....... now i want enchiladas.

Comment by carla j walton on August 27, 2012 at 8:58pm

well this is not quilt related or even slump related but as an ex landscaper/nursery person, i can tell you that likely most of your fruit flies hatch from the dirt in your brand-new beautiful plants that you bought to make your house look lovely. you can usually fix that by putting a small amount of insect kller on the dirt and watering it in........:) 

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