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Author Archives: Jan Mullen

back strategy + back to priorities

9 Nov
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-FOUR  (november 2 – 8) Restricted by my very sore back/hip, slowly and gently I have been able to get things done with a strategy of sitting for short bursts, moving around gently, lying on my roller when the ... Read more »

can you keep a secret, organization, our little house, quilt patterns, quilts

short week squished

2 Nov
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-THREE (october 26- november 1) This week starts with me still in Geelong. It is check out day, travel day and getting back to my bloke and my bed day. It was also a day made more lovely, quite ... Read more »

back to my past, our little house, quilts

a woolly, arty, OZQUILTy trip

28 Oct
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-TWO (october 19-25) This week I’m in Geelong, Victoria, a town that years ago I visited annually in our summer holidays – when we left our holiday caravan, and our bathers, at Point Lonsdale to visit the big smoke. ... Read more »

out visiting, OZQUILT

pre-tripping

18 Oct
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-ONE (october 12-18) I am off to Geelong next week and therefore I am in countdown mode. I have finally called it quits on my ‘lecture’ at Art Quilt Australia. I have read it a zillion times and have ... Read more »

can you keep a secret, OZQUILT, the reading pile, the zoo

downstairs at last

12 Oct
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY – (october  5-11) The weeks of the year are ticking by…forty weeks into this blog and I haven’t nearly as much to show for it, output wise, as I expected. This week though, in a few tentative forays, ... Read more »

can you keep a secret, OZQUILT

Send it off

5 Oct
Jan Mullen
WEEK THIRTY-NINE – (sept. 28-october 4) My first feathering piece, feathering the nest #1 – of hope & glory was accepted into the Art Quilt Australia 2015 exhibition to be held at The Wool Museum, Geelong. This week it was ... Read more »

feathering the nest, organization, quilts

simply empty the fridge

30 Sep
Jan Mullen
WEEK THIRTY-EIGHT – (sept. 21-27) If you’ve been reading my blog of late you will have noticed an increasingly stressed undertone….but not this week.… Ages ago I promised to take a few friends to our little house, to get together ... Read more »

back to my past, our little house, quilt patterns

start of the week/end of the week

20 Sep
Jan Mullen
WEEK  THIRTY-SEVEN – (sept. 14-20) THE START OF THE WEEK It’s been mostly another week of sitting on my bottom-friendly stool. Another week of tap, tap, tapping….of searching for the correct words….of trawling through and trying to make sense of, ... Read more »

gallery hopping, OZQUILT, quilts, The Quilt & Textile Study Group of WA, WAFTA

& clearing & cleaning

14 Sep
Jan Mullen
WEEK  THIRTY-SIX – (sept. 7-13) I started the week off with lists and a dogged attitude. It was always going to be a jam-packed week of notes and prep and meetings. It was also to be the finish line of prep ... Read more »

feathering the nest, my studio, organization, OZQUILT

still life in a never still life

7 Sep
Jan Mullen
WEEK  THIRTY-FIVE – (sept. 1-6) Another week of sitting still, staring at the screen, has me champing at the bit – I feel I have been being attached to this keyboard for way too many weeks. It is feeling quite ... Read more »

feathering the nest, gallery hopping, out visiting

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