New blog has been posted at www.ihaveanotion.com/blog

Come and see what has been keeping me busy...

could it be

Who is this?

Updating with Pictures

because if we wait until I have enough time to write… it will be 2020!!! So I have an update with pictures and a few words.

see MORE at https://ihaveanotion.com/blog/

Beth

2019 Quilters Meet & Greet

Looking to meet other Quilt Bloggers you might not know about?

Victoriana Quilt Designs has pulled together the 2nd Quilters Meet and Greet, where you can meet many bloggers via their blog.

Check them out, leave comments, share on your social media where you met them and save the ones that you want to see more of in your blog reader of choice...

Oh! and did I mention there are PRIZES!!!

See you at the Meet and Greet!!!

Beth

Seemingly Disconnected...

Finally a post. As usual, the background happenings have taken most of the available time, so…

What does this…

peaceful view

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Using the Tools

I started this post on using Quilters Select Rulers because I had an opportunity to show them off in February. Once I figure out what to say, I think about supporting pictures and that leads to more things to say, and then more pictures, which makes for more post parts. So I will break it up into smaller chunks.

My Style
I really like simple and straight forward, and I hope you do too. I want to share the (my) creative process with you as well as the products “I” use so you can feel comfortable with the products available at I Have A Notion™ .....

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The State of the Store : Values, Stock and Products

In a little less than a year the state of the store has changed significantly. The web site started crashing and elements were not functioning requiring major renovations. I Have A Notion™, started down the road to the new look, new web site, new stock; well new everything! The site is modernized, sleek and organized. It will always be a work in progress, but the key elements are in place.

What are the Goals

To improve the State of the Store, new stock and products are being added all the time. Not just the newest hottest things, but the tried and true. Products that have stood...

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Quiltcon Nashville 2019

As promised some pictures from Quiltcon Nashville.

There were lots of very interesting quilts; some visually stimulating, some left us scratching our heads, and some very loud statements. Almost all of them were interesting in some way- form, color, quilting or pattern. While Quiltcon tries to be different, getting photographs was difficult. Aisles were a bit

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A Little Sticky, Some Blue and a TIP

Its been a little sticky and blue In the Creative Space. A picture of the ‘chickens’ loaded on the longarm was in the last post. So far that hasn’t changed, still no thread.

The Sticky
So what about the sticky and blue? I use a lot of fusible products and I try as many as I can find and afford. The favorite (to read more, go to www.ihaveanotion.com/blog)

New Items in Stock!

Over at the new store...

New items have been added!

Chaco Pens
Centering Tape
Hand Sewing Needles
Sewline Chalk Pencils and Leads

and back in stock

Misting Spray Bottles

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Have you bookmarked the new site? www.ihaveanotion.com... store and blog are over there new.

A new blog post is up...

End or Beginning?

Beth

a new blog post.... Paradise

and the Camp Fire. I have been beside myself the last couple of weeks. Going from numb and devastated to heart wrenching grief .

I used to live in Paradise and several surrounding communities from the late 70’s to the early 90’s. I kinda grew up there… My 20’s more or less. All the houses I lived in on the ‘ridge’ are gone whether I rented or owned them. My grandparents’ house is gone too. I am .....

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Have You Heard?

If you are arriving at this page from a list serve, a Blog Roll or a link on your own page; you may want to update it to go HERE.

Blogger made changes that made somethings nearly impossible to do- like reply to comments from email! Connecting with other like minded people is so much more fun.

So I Have A Notion... has made somethings ever so much easier including the store.

If you haven't checked it out, please come on OVER!

Or if you just want to start at the top...  go to the HOME page!

Have you checked out the new digs?

If not... come over and get caught up on Goldies news!

Find it here   https://ihaveanotion.com/blog/

More NOW!!!

Beth

Its the BIG DAY!!!

Its Moving Day.

I HAVE A NOTION has new DIGS!

www.ihaveanotion.com

Please come have a look! There will be some party favors and prizes… for comments, shares, likes, etc. I would really love your help in spreading the word.

I can’t wait to see you there!


Beth

Another Side Line

Not sure anyone will know what this is…

{It’s not a spaceship!}

but I have had a rather regular view of it… this past year. It all started a year ago when I had a tooth bothering me… would wake me at night and some discomfort during the day.

I won’t go into the details, but the tooth still bothers me…. but it will need rest to completely heal… and I am not willing to stop eating, so it is slow going. It is better, certainly!

In the meantime, it was suggested that we do some restoration… so fillings are being replaced and another tooth that suffered fractures in a car accident is was crowned. Nerves got very unhappy with that… which has lead to some more detailed procedures. At least one more visit for that! And maybe more if we determine that it is the crown causing the problem.

OH, JOY!

Remember something is Coming 7-31!!! Comeback!!!

More later!  Beth

Storms and Inspiration

Last Friday was a lost day… or mostly so. 10 hours of weather radio weather warnings… from 2:30 in the afternoon until well pas midnight! Didn’t get much accomplished and even less on Saturday due to much less needed sleep. So a loss of most of 2 days…

I did a little playing…. in early May and June.

Inspired by red poppies that are planted by the Department of Transportation in Kentucky in some of the highway medians,

and a delicious commercial poppy print.

I created a little free motion thread painting sample for a workshop in early July where I shared my process.

I wanted to leave the back visible, so they could see the stitching- thread work that is usually covered by the backing.

I teased with this photo on Instagram… A full image when I have it completed.

I am in the process of adding the quilting. Of course not much to show… It also requires a little more threadwork on the flowers.

Big NEWS coming… Check things out on July 31!…. I have some more giveaways too.

More Later! Beth

Well Ladies.... Not one of you had the correct guess!!! 

So I think we can rule out fabric! Maybe some day... but not at the moment.

There are books! But New books coming!!!

Tutorials, possibly.... just have to find a few minutes to do them.

Since there were only 4 comments I decided you were all winners.

Would Cheryl, Claudia, Jocelyn and Lisa Marie please send me an email with your mailing address!

 I have a quilt to trim, Yes I spent a few minutes at the longarm. 1st time in months! Yay for me.

How about you... been using up some thread? 

More Later! Beth

Modern Woes!!!

I wonder if they said the same thing about electricity and telephone when they became part of the mainstream of life?

In my case it has been mostly the Internet! I think we may finally have it all ironed out. Lucky for me I got the attention of the right person and have had a focused team attempting to get it all ironed out, at least from the pole to the house and the signal in the house!!! I am hoping I never have to revisit this again!!!

On the plus side the new computer is a nice addition, the old one still needs to be fixed, but I will have to wait on that.. Until I have 2 days to take it apart and then put it all back together!!!

Life aside from the ‘modern woes’ continues. Goldie is doing very well and I think she will get a clean bill of health either at the end of July or in the first week or two of August after her last sample is tested. In the meantime she will be under going a ‘Girlectomy’ 7/31. She will be rendered unable to reproduce after!

As I have been saying (over and over again)… I have been working hard behind the scenes at IHAN and changes will become apparent soon. So many little things to get lined up and the difficulties with the Internet did not make it any easier. But check back soon… lots of surprises, games and giveaways coming!!!

We’re going to have some fun and games in the meantime. Are you on Facebook or Instagram? Find and like “I Have a Notion” for future… games.

For now its a guessing game what do you think is coming? Leave a comment with your guess below. Three winners from the comments on this blog post. Winners announced on Monday evening.

Stop Right NOW!!

I can hear Meatloaf in the background shouting that line from 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights’. A totally different meaning as to why though.

We have been under some heat stress in Kentucky!!! Along with a huge chunk of the USA! STOP!! was what the outside part of the indoor/outdoor thermometer decided to say… the inside part was content though. I bought it when we moved to Chicago for $10 bucks in 2007. It has since lived in South Africa, Virginia and Kentucky!Pretty well traveled thermometer. I will miss it!

On the other hand it has been upgraded! To a weather station. Now I will know so much more about what is going on… than just the temperature. Of course it was monumental getting it up. On a very bright hot morning…

Since it has been up highest temp it has recorded was 102, with a heat index of111. We’ve had exactly 1 thunderstorm since we put it up…. so the rainfall has not been significant really about 1/2 the amount showing, because I had to spend a day calibrating the little dump bucked…. a pain for sure. 

Another places I would like to shout STOP is with the Internet!!! Between the website  melt down again…. with a bandwidth cap reached. Nothing to do about that but wait. The Clearance Sale had something to do with it,I think. There are still have some things that need to go, so if you are looking for thread, machine embroidery designs or stabilizer… there is still plenty!!! EVERYTHING is at least 50% off!

This is not a heat map, but a map of an Internet outage. I am working on a solution and it is taking way more time than I anticipated! So far 3 dedicated months of all my creative and otherwise unallocated time. Who knew that road block after road block would pop up. Most of them seem to have been technology related. Internet Service issues… outages, followed by Provider Equipment failures and then yep my computer failed. Nothing serious, just a power button that refuses to work. So days of a project that were not saved to the NAS (network area storage) device are stuck in that computer!!! So I have to back track… for the 3rd time!

I am not complaining… just disappointed that I do not get as much of anything done as I have on my imaginary timeline. I was hoping to be moving forward long before now!

Of course bringing a new computer up to speed takes a serious chunk of time too. I will try to not be so quiet and share more…. but I was really hoping to fill up all this quiet blank space with excitement and FUN!!!

Please Stay tuned. There really is LOTS more coming! And do check out the store, Ihaveanotion.com the Clearance continues!

Beth

Out of Control

Out of My control!

As things go… this is the worst… and not something I was aware of. But is seems IHaveaNotion.com has a bandwidth cap and the Blowout Sale has exceeded the allotment!

Good news is your are visiting the shop.

Bad news is …. no one can visit the shop.

But you can call me or email. Its the long way around… but doable for the short term.

quiltnotions@gmail.com or call 270-9004564 (no texting on this number)

WHAT To Do?

I’m working on it so please be patient… Please Please Please be patient.

More Later! Beth