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priority push-me-pull-you

30 Jan

WEEK FOUR (january 23-29) For quite a while I’ve been trying really hard to come up with ways to use my time wisely and consistently, but a continual priority push-me-pull-you of tasks and projects that, like toddlers, demand my attention ... Read more »

filled from top to bottom

16 Jan

Jan Mullen

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 »

a blur of a big’un

5 Dec

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-EIGHT (november 28-december 4) This week was such a big week. A blur of a big’un. It certainly is that time of the year and, as always, I seem to have a deadline other than the the total wallet ... Read more »

chiseling away

21 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-SIX (november 14-20) This was such a big week filled with little things that I was left in a gently exhausted blur by the end of it… The continuing VERY full family life with lots of ordinary/unmissable ‘contact’ time, ... Read more »

thank heaven for spring

6 Sep

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-FIVE (august 29-september 4) I haven’t been that chirpy of late, laid low with the winter blues essentially, as we have just finished the coldest/wettest spell since my move to Perth close to thirty years ago. I have missed ... 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 »

reinventing the flow of my days

27 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-FIVE (june 20-26) It was a gentle start to the week after the pressure and concentration that was a large part of last week. Time to catch up on neglected and postponed tasks and to reinvent the flow of ... Read more »

teamwork is often simply a buzzword….

21 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR (june 13-19) The week starts with vim and vigour. I am off early for a swim then gather myself and my bits to head off to Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mt Lawley. Finally it is setup week and ... Read more »

artistic delight VS scourge of the bush

23 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY (may 16-22) Photo Day took place on Tuesday and I was happy to have a piece ready for AW5 – whether it gets selected actually is not too important to me at the moment. What it has done, ... 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 »