Jan Mullen – Page 14

hilarity and materiality

11 May

WEEK EIGHTEEN – (may 4 – 10) I’m continually tweaking or re-inventing systems to help keep me on track. I am a list maker, a filing tweaker, a time-tabler, a shelf re-organiser, an anytime spring cleaner and, I suppose this ... Read more »

baby bunting & cosey corner

4 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK SEVENTEEN– (april 28 – may 3) As you are now likely aware from recent posts, I have been working, very slowly for a couple of years and very quickly of late, to re-edit my older STARGAZEY quilt patterns, updating ... Read more »

a trumpet at mid morn

28 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK SIXTEEN – (april 20 – 27) When I set up this Black Swan project, and this blog, I did it like all the proper business plans I’ve written ….ooops that would be none! These formulaic plans, this way of ... Read more »

a glorious link

20 Apr

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WEEK FIFTEEN – (april 13 – 19) Disaster on the feathering front. I have run out of Posca pens and so has every store vaguely close to me. I have ordered online but they won’t be with me until next ... Read more »

crayon on brown paper

13 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FOURTEEN – (april 6 – 12) Exhibition time this week was spent at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (UWA) to see Yirrkala Drawings. Interestingly I went prepared to not enjoy this show despite friends, whose opinion I value, lauding it. ... Read more »

easter, eaters, art

7 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTEEN – (march 30 – april 5) I’ve feathered another set of samples this week – this time Formica – a small and rather ugly sample set of my fathers. They were slippery-shiny and the black pen has improved ... Read more »

wettex and doilies

30 Mar

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WEEK TWELVE – (march 23-29) It is week twelve and my week has just lengthened. I started with ‘short’ dates to realistically represent the working time I had available – four days. Alas, as always, my days rarely work to ... Read more »

caught up with the blog, held up by a spider

22 Mar

Jan Mullen

WEEK ELEVEN – (march 16-19) I have caught up to real time – that is real time plus a few days which helps to give the past week perspective. Instead of forging ahead downstairs I have been held up – ... Read more »

refining, feathering, reading

18 Mar

Jan Mullen

WEEK TEN – (march 9-12) I’m still refining the blog and adding pages each day.  I may need to get into the rhythm of keeping notes and taking progress snaps so the process becomes a bit more of the moment. ... Read more »

self made pressure

17 Mar

Jan Mullen

WEEK NINE – (march 2-5) You may have noticed the difference between POST dates and the headings of WEEK dates – they are coming together. Whilst the project started in January the posts only started in March. This week, week ... Read more »