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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
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 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!!! 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.
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 hu
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.
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 
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 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
Call it a Blowout, Inventory Reduction, Crazy whatever, but there is
still lots of stock to clear out. Too MUCH!
Are you looking for something?
Everything in the store at www.ihaveanotion.com is 50% off.
That includes:
Floriani Threads and Stabilizers!!!!
Lots of Notions!
And Machine Embroidery software.
EVERY SINGLE THING in the STORE!!!
Haven’t checked it out?
What are you waiting for?
Order before noon EST and it will go out the same day…. most days!
Lina has taken advantage of the thread discounts not once but twice and sent some additional pictures of what she uses it for! These are called “Butterfly Bowls”
Aren’t they just beautiful!
It seems blogger is making some changes… comments are not being emailed, (a Google bug or related to the GDPR thing don’t know), Open ID is going away, as well as some other things changing). Some days I hate change!!!
So go shopping!!! and I’ll tell you,
More Later- Beth
Do you find yourself starting a project and then you find yourself… doing something related or along the way… and that leads to another and another, and another… and pretty soon several hours have passed and you have not yet finished the first task?
I have finally finished or disentangled myself from several large projects and obligations. Yesterday and today were almost totally ready for my own stuff. But as I mentioned above… not so fast.
Today I had planned to put up a blog post, but you know what today is? May 25th, the deadline for the GDPR to take effect. While I know what it was and that for anyone reading from the EU would need to be notified about any data collection done on the blog and the store and what you do with it. Truth is I don’t collect anything. I can hardly keep track of me and my stuff I don’t need the added responsibility of someone elses stuff too.
This all started after reading a post written by Darlene of QuiltShopGal about the GDPR and Privacy and why we should care. That sent me on the chase down rabbit holes to define and create the I Have A Notions GDPR and Privacy Policy update. The short version is posted at the top of all the blog pages and there is a slightly longer version on the Dedicated Policy page, and there is an even longer all inclusive one at the store, which will also have some new verbiage soon (the other end of the rabbit hole).
We should all be concerned with where our information is and how it is being used by sites we visit, especially with the inability to control cookies, all the website data breaches/thefts and the demise of “Net Neutrality” (if you feel inclined let your legislators know that we want Net Neutrality back, but that is another rabbit hole.
So… while I had visions of getting things accomplished today… it took just about all day to get here!
What did you do today? Do you care about Privacy Policies, GDPR or Net Neutrality?
Sound off in the comments.
More Later- Beth
I had to wait… to post…and then other posts got in the way …. can you say Clearance! Yes it is still going on. I still have too many items, so go and check them out! www.ihaveanotion.com
Goldie and Linzi… in January 2018 (4 months old)
Goldie is 9 months old now and almost that size. Her early difficulties… kind of held her back a little. Since we started down this path to getting her colon cleared she has gained lots of weight and grown to almost the correct size. I took another sample up to the specialists… for testing in late April. For some reason it took more than a week to get the results…. (their tests result timeline is all over the map). I was hoping to say that we got the all clear and on to a normal dog life for her.
Goldie in March 2018
Nope, she is still positive for Cryptosporidium. Doc doesn’t like it, but doesn’t see any reason to do more invasive tests. I’m happy, my wallet is happy and I’m sure Goldie would be happy too, if she knew what we were discussing.
Goldie napping… May 2018
Vet has suggested that we continue with the antibiotic powder for 4-5 months and then retest. Not a difficult issue, except that she has to be dosed with a meal every 8 hours! So no late nights or sleeping in… for at least one of us! This schedule also means no opportunities for both of us (humans) to be away together yet. We got as far as making plans and kennel reservations, and then the idea of counting on others to medicate her on time, scared us ….into…. one of us staying home.
Goldie and Linzi playing…. as you can see Goldie has done some growing… almost as tall as Linzi… and can easily out run her, but that might be more youth than growth!
So there we go… hopefully by her 1st birthday(September) … she will be clear and ready to take up the ‘dog life’…
More later- Beth
Look at this.
The maker calls it a Butterfly Bowl. I couldn’t imagine what it looked like from the name… but she also sent a picture. Just beautiful!
Lina took advantage of the ‘Clearance Sale’ and snapped up a bunch of the Floriani Variegated thread and sent the picture with permission to share.
The butterfly (Luna Moth) is Machine Embroidered, using the same thread top and bobbin so the back side is just as pretty as the top.
Still lots of Floriani in the shop…. and the price can’t be beat! HALF off!
Shop www.ihavanotion.com
More Later!!! Beth
EVERYTHING in the store 50% off!!!
Featuring FLORIANI Thread
(Great for machine embroidery, longarm quilting or thread painting/sketching).
Beautiful sheen, 100's of colors
Don't wait some colors are getting low! and a few are gone!
I am a recent finder of the Floriani thread, and I have been playing with it on the longarm. I think it is a finer thread than Glide, which is a 40 weight thread, so it does not show quite as much, something I like. And by not showing quite as much the sheen is a little less as well, again something I like.
One of the other things of note is that Glide likes to untwist while traveling from the spool/cone to the needle, on my longarm, as I hear, also on many other longarms as well. The Floriani does not seem to do that!
More Later!! Beth
Yep, it is.
Everything in the I Have a Notion store (www.ihaveanotion.com) is on sale.
What does that mean? It means
Every item in the store is 1/2 off! If you find a product that is not marked down… (exception is the $4.00 books), let me know… I will mark it down another 25%
CHECK it out, there just might be something you need or want or….
Scissors, Embroidery Software, Thread, Notions
EVERYTHING absolutely EVERYTHING!
Beth
As usual… I have been busy and behind as far as keeping things caught up or current. Part of my problem is that I don’t think much of what I do is interesting… or even worth mentioning until after the fact!!! Sometimes well after the fact! Does that happen to you too?
Sometimes I see my obligations as just that -a job to accomplish… and don’t stop long enough to see that there is value in just doing the job. For instance. One of the guilds in town will be hosting a Quilt Auction as a fund raiser that will feature both a Silent Auction and a Live Auction as well as a rummage table we are calling the ‘Quilters Attic’. While my hand was resting in February I built a web page for the guild… nothing spectacular in terms of design, as it was to show some of the quilts to be auctioned. If you are interested in visiting that page…. go here: Nine Patchers Quilt Auction and of course if you are nearby… please come. Next up was taking pictures of those quilts. It was the photographing, that I think I missed a great opportunity to talk about.
Over the years there has been lots of information shared about how to photograph quilts… so I took much of what I remember reading… about the subject… using a tripod, appropriate lighting, level camera and quilt display and distance as well as focal length. I am a nature photographer… and generally don’t have the patience for lighting a subject with artificial light.
The shooting quilts went really well, even though all of them were photographed indoors! and without a neutral wall behind them at one location and pretty closed to the ceiling… several had to be pinned to a sheet. Our weather in Kentucky hasn’t cooperated with warm enough days…. to shoot outside, and not bright enough to use south facing windows for a nice natural light indoors… So I had to also play with fluorescent and fill flash. Overall I think the quilts look good.
Next I was asked to photograph a knife. That proved to be a different lighting difficulty. For this I actually wanted the dull dark grey skies!!! Metal reflects light and creates bright reflections that look like imperfections in the metal work. We decided that a new lens would help with that problem… so another small obstacle … to over come. Well after a couple of weeks of experimentation… I think I finally nailed it.
Have I been doing anything remotely related to fiber recently…NO!!!
I’ll have to explain more later… What about you…. are you keeping up?
Beth
Some days I feel like all I do is “whine” about time and where has it gone? And this week doesn’t feel any different!
There must me something I no longer do … as well as I used to, or is it that things take longer now than they did before? Or have I just gotten lazy? But I sure wish I could figure it out!
So Kelly sent me these on Sunday…. a little late to posting… but they make me smile. I wish I had a neighbor like this!!!
Until… later… and More!
Beth (and Kelly)
Hi…. and what exactly is up at I Have a Notion?
Our rainfall and snowfall amounts are up in Kentucky. Almost 3 times more snow than was predicted… and if we get too much more rain… we will float away.
Also up are the wild Hyacinths. These pop up every year in the lawn, and they are naturalizing. The first year here we only had 2 or 3 plants and now we have 20! I love them. We also have lots of wild violets… under the maple and just to prove its spring… even if the temperatures don’t say so, the dandelions are blooming too.
This little one is up to 1 month old! I spent a day last week with her. It shot the whole day… by the time I drove up, we had lunch, a quick spin around IKEA, and the drive home… But well worth it! 
And just like the rest of America… some of this! and it is taking more than one day!
What has kept you busy? Sewing or Taxes or….?
Today is Worldwide Quilting Day!
I hope you have set aside some time today to do something Quilty to Celebrate!
When I lived in Nebraska, we always had a Soup and Sew Day sponsored by the guild. To build and cement our Quilting Life and Friendships. It was always a big deal since the National Quilt Museum is in Lincoln Nebraska!
I celebrated a few days early, and unfortunately, no pictures!!!
I did a presentation on thread for the Kentuckiana Longarm Guild I belong to. Based on that presentation, I was asked if I would come and share it with a Guild in Indiana.
Our date was set, and I ventured up to Indiana on Thursday afternoon to share my quilts and some thread information in the evening with the Washington County Quilt Guild. I had such a great time sharing some of what I have been working on the last few years!!!
So while I may not make it into the Creative Spaces today… I did spend some Quality Time this week with Quilts and Quilters!!!
So how are You celebrating “National Quilting Day”?
