I was too hot and tired to blog yesterday. I didn’t accomplish much other than getting to my Dr’s appointment in the morning. I got to see my CT Scan and was shown how clear all my sinuses are except for that bit of blockage behind my right eye near the optic nerve, the carotid artery and my brain! Not a fun place for someone to be poking around. He believes that my headaches are from allergies and not blocked sinuses. I am following good hygiene of saline rinses and cortisone nasal spray – without those, I would have more problems. So for now, we are putting surgery on the back burner. I will go back in December and probably have another CT scan.

Yesterday, we had the east winds which are hot and dry and blow everything around. Today, I had an allergy headache, but I dealt with it. It is probably something I will have to live with here in the NW.

Today, I went to Terry Grant’s house to help check with the color proofs of our Twelve x Twelve book. We found a few blips, but overall it looks fantastic. It is really gorgeous – bigger than I expected – nicely laid out. I can’t wait for it to arrive next March.

Tonight, I was determined to do something in the studio so I did another fiber sketch which is a variation on a theme. It is the photo up at the top. I am working up to making some of these larger.

I have also been working on allegro, thinking about various layouts for it.

I have been thinking about going back to making some of my own clothing. I love artsy things and it is very hard for me to find clothes in a retail shop that fit me without some altering. I love this outfit that Michelle Obama was wearing on Martha’s Vineyard.

I finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest tonight. I enjoyed the trilogy and am sorry that there will be no more. I am happy that I have gotten back in the habit of spending some time reading a real book every day.

I am working on a couple of pieces that I cannot show. Today was a day of getting myself organized so that I have some uninterrupted time for working.

I bought some beads and blue perle cotton to finish the lorikeet felted piece. I love to test myself. I went off to the store with no color samples and came home with perfect color matches.

When we were remodeling a house in North Carolina, we had all of our furnishings in storage. The designer we were working with picked a blue for the dining room walls. I came in and looked at it and said, this is wrong. It will not match the Karastan rug that is in storage. We kept fiddling with the color until I was happy with it. When they unrolled the carpet from storage, she took one look and said, “Damn, you are good!”

I found a bag of scraps that I started saving after taking a class with Sue Benner. She is a fuser. When you attach Wonder Under to the back of fabric, it does not go all the way to the edges. She cuts these off, leaving a bit of fusing on the edge and then uses them to create wonderful strip landscapes.

I used some of the painted lutradur as the background and let it show through in areas. That piece is rather Lorikeet looking, don’t you think?

Tomorrow, I am off  to see the ENT doctor and find out if sinus surgery is in my future. Then, I hope to get a lot done in my studio. No time to waste.