the reading pile – Page 2

filled from top to bottom

16 Jan

WEEK ONE (january 2-8) The new year comes with deadlines and priorities. The last weeks of 2016 have given us extra priorities as we help to ready our daughter’s house house for market – and I still have the quilt ... Read more »

putting off works well with solitude

19 Dec

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTY (december 12-18) I put off, put off, put off making gingerbread till I could put it off no more. On Sunday morning, after putting away the market fruit and veg, I hunkered down with Richard Feidler’s last ‘Conversations‘ ... Read more »

so many photos

28 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-SEVEN (november 21-27) Finally the Mongolia photos have all been through a first round of processing and editing. There was a BIG pile of deleting but there are also a very large amount of ‘bad’ photos kept because they ... Read more »

what DO I do?

31 Oct

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-THREE (october 24-30) A few people of late have asked me what I DO. It really got me thinking. The answer should be simple BUT I have had much difficulty answering each time. I dither. Why????? It find it ... Read more »

Excited – you betcha!

18 Sep

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-SEVEN (september 12-18) For the first time I am posting before the week has ended… in a matter of hours I will be off and away for another dose of cold weather – this time in Mongolia. Excited – ... Read more »

to consider/or not consider/over-considered?

11 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN (july4-10) Creativity? Not this week. A bit of slog/whip cracking is needed to get last week’s cushion covers advancing… They are still not finished but getting close…. these are still not considered/over-considered pieces like I usually would do ... Read more »

gear up & wind down

30 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-ONE (may 23-29) As we gear up to launch the twentyONE+ website at the end of this week the information and editing is being worked in both manic and relaxed fits and starts. Our decision to have everything online ... Read more »

a thousand metres / dollars / things to do

20 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTEEN (april 11-17) It is a big week physically as I attempt to get back into the pool three or four mornings a week. I plod or glide through the thousand metres depending on the day and the state ... Read more »

lots of outs & a scattering of feathers

29 Mar

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWELVE (march 21-27) It was a busy start to the week with dinner out on Monday night – a group of us enjoying the company of visiting quilt artist Gloria Loughman and her bloke Tony. On Tuesday evening it ... Read more »

filled to the brim

11 Mar

Jan Mullen

WEEK NINE (february 29 – march 6) The week started off at home in ‘finish up/ clear up /clear out’ mode and by Wednesday we were flying out to explore Sydney. Our room was in a freshly rebuilt hotel in ... Read more »