Category: business
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The Life I Chose
I was 19 – and in Sweden, a trip I’d worked hard to make happen the year following graduation – when the first intimation that my life was about to change significantly occurred. My father was gravely ill. When I got home about 4 weeks later, my mother finally told me dad had multiple myeloma…
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Deadline Dance
Trying to find peace today in the face of a deadline going ballistic. There was a miscommunication – an email went astray – and the yarn I need for a project, due in the hands of the publisher very soon is only just now en route. Sometimes juggling deadlines is the hardest part of being…
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Busy
A not uncommon sight in my studio – bins piled up with warps, spools, general…messiness. While it may look messy to someone else, there is a certain level of organization in the mess. Because I never work on just one project, one warp at a time. My approach to getting everything I do, done, is…
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Details, Details
Not too long ago, in a conversation with another textile professional, she commented that people like us were always running 15 projects off the sides of our desk. I had to agree. My working life is a constant round of keeping various and sundry plates spinning on their respective sticks. Sometimes I don’t always manage…
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Showing Up
I’m over half way through this bin of rayon chenille scarves, but still hours of work to do yet. Today Doug is working on installing a new light in the laundry room and, for safety’s sake, the computer that runs my loom needed to be shut down. Ergo, I could not weave. While it was…
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Multi-pronged
There has been conversation on one of the internet groups I belong to about what it takes to be a professional in the leisure/hobby textile profession. An oxymoron, of sorts, but not really. Because there are many people who follow the profession of teaching or producing textiles to a greater or lesser extent. There…
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Messy
My messy life… I am trying to cross some long delayed chores off my task list, the primary one being getting my ledger entries done, balanced, reconciled to my cheque book and file my GST (sales tax) for the second quarter of the year. I’ve got until the end of the month, but I’m due…
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Stubborn/Persistent
A few years ago (quite a few, but let’s not count them up) I was asked to do a guild presentation about my life as a professional weaver. After the presentation one person approached me and said that she had re-invented herself three times, with three different professions, but had been intrigued with how I…
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Stash-a-lanch
I am in the throes of finding my teaching aids for the two Olds classes I am teaching in June, which is a bit of a challenge because I also have all the samples for all the other workshops I’ve taught over the years. Things have gotten shifted multiple times over the past year due…
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Passages
Some of the homework for the Olds master weaving program. Plus yarn. Stash to be used up. Plus bins of warps, wound, ready to be woven. When I get to them. Life is full of passages. Some smooth, some rocky. But that is just life. The first time your heart gets broken. Getting fired. Having…