The last couple of weeks I have been busy reading. The culprit of my reading and new book acquisitions is mostly due to The Temecula Co. blog which has been displaying adorable doll sized quilts and the books that inspired them. Viola, I have Childhood Treasures and Small Endearments! I have also always wanted the Barbara Brackman books, I love American History so they are a really good read for me, with the bonus quilt patterns as a prize.
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| These are all great books for inspiration! |
I always buy the Fall issue of Country Gardens, it gives me something to ponder for next years garden. Well at least a wish list for the gardens I wish I had, if I weren't busy quilting. This one has a neat little building made of cord wood and an even neater bottle placed in the wall for the birds to nest in. Very Cool!
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| Fall issue of Country Gardens by Better Homes and Gardens. |
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| Walt Whitman has a simple way with prose that keep me grounded in what is here and now. |
Walt Whitman's Songs of Myself written in 1881 seems soothing in a world moving at a dizzying pace.
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| The Spirit of the Quakers is an anthology of letters written by Quakers old and new. |
While this book doesn't actually teach about the religion its self, it does give the reader an insight to what it means to the writers of the letters contained within. I enjoy their descriptions of the meetings and what the movement means to them personally. I think maybe it might be a better way to view different religions, to see it through the eyes and hearts of the practitioners. I think you really can't understand a society or its history unless you look at the various religions that are practiced and are important in shaping the people of that society.
As for Focus, Focus, I have to admit that I have been lagging. It has been a busy couple of weeks and it was my week to work a stretch, leaving little time for focused sewing. I have been busy rearranging the house for the sale in October, which it occurs to me that I should let me neighbors know is happening. Oh well, add it to the list.
My days off last week were used reclaiming a under used guest room and making it a reading room, which will also work much better to display items for the sale. Out went the twin bed and all the quilts on it and all the stuff under it, in went a small table, a tall narrow chest of drawers, and a book shelf. Out of the closet comes the small bureau and doll's house that was my mothers. All that is left is to quilt the tablecloth and deciding what to do with the books on the shelves behind the door.
It occurred to me this morning that I still have to repaint the kitchen floor and stairs, and repair the wooden scarecrow that will serve as a sign by the road. Oh and I probably should clean the carpets and finish a few bazillion projects to sell. Maybe, I will just settle in with Walt again.... hummm, I guess that won't do. Time to go and get it all done!
Have a great and happy day! I hope all in your world is as busy as mine, enjoy! Joanne
The books look great! The magazine, too--I miss buying all the mags I used to get in the US but so many went out of business. I would LOVE to make a room into a reading room--it sounds like heaven. One of my neighbors has a small room for his soccer books--wall to wall bookshelves filled with them.
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