scraps and tidbits

In which our plucky heroine remembers the past, and reminds self that getting older is a privilege not granted to all...

"They followed him quickly up a flight of stairs which couldn't be seen, and through a door which didn't exist. In a moment, they had left Reality, which is sometimes a hard thing to tell, and stood in a completely different part of the forest..."

recently have been listening to an audiobook version of "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster, which was a favorite of mine back in the days of my young adulthood. I think I first read it in middle school. Am fairly impressed with the meta-content implied in the story, and how it relates even now to my values and ethics. I guess we all are children of the times we came to awareness within, and there was a lot of a modicum of hopefulness back then, which seems lost now, for eversomany reasons alas...

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tis the season of pruning, and the beginning of the season of watering. As the sage is all done flowering, ditto the lovage, they have been pruned and cut back. Also every morning I've been going out and thinning the apple clusters, and trimming back the new growth, to keep the fruiting branches within reach. If all goes well there will be at least some apples this autumn

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Finished sewing the linen undergowns for Genivieve, and for Isabel. Sewed a linen Norse apron dress for Aesa. Now at this point pretty much my entire Casta Fabri/Blue Cedar House group has enough clothing to get through ATWW in July. Still need to sew a wool coat for Drusa, and then if there is time, I myself could use some new SCA clothing as well

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40% off sale of both Speedball printmaking supplies and all Jacquard fabric dyes and paints - Artist and Craftsman Supply all June and July... I love my local art store, and am considering what of my textile surface design supplies to replenish

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June SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	pickled garlic scapes	Isabel apron dress trim	small crock pot
2	seven baprons	Drusa hat trim	cracked iron pot
3	undergown Genievieve	pruned sage	-
4	undergown for Isabel	pruned forsythia	-
5	Norse apron dress Aesa	continued pruning apple	-
6	x	-	-
7	x	x	-
8	x	x	-
9	x	x	-
10	x	x	-
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x