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Category Archives: organization

a week of small steps

23 Apr
Jan Mullen
WEEK 16 (april 17-23) It’s an unusual week that starts with a day less – though the ‘lost’ day was pleasantly spent. We were happily held captive at our ‘little house’ mucking around with two small girls and planting two ... Read more »

movie night, organization, our little house, the reading pile artwork process, Knit One Purl One, paint chip feathers, project priority

a digital nightmare eventuates /this week needs cake

13 Mar
Jan Mullen
WEEK TEN (march 6-12) The week started with an end. The first day of the week was the last day of the long weekend. We slowly pack away the pool and the playthings and empty the fridge. We slowly mosey ... Read more »

organization, our little house artwork process, renovating, tools

my eyes were filled brim-full

13 Feb
Jan Mullen
WEEK SIX (february 6-12) It ended up being a pretty good textile week – something that doesn’t always happen – unfortunately it was not about me making but there were wonderful conversations, my eyes were filled brim-full and I kept ... Read more »

gallery hopping, movie night, organization artwork process, favourite artists

priority push-me-pull-you

30 Jan
Jan Mullen
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 »

AGWA, back to my past, gallery hopping, my home, my studio, organization, The Quilt & Textile Study Group of WA listening to, project priority, stargazey

Whack. There I go again!

23 Jan
Jan Mullen
WEEK THREE (january 16-22) Yet another abnormal week for me, and knowing it was to be thus helped me to reiterate the thought, mentioned in the last post, that Feb 1 is the official start to my new year. The ... Read more »

back to my past, organization, our little house project priority, stargazey

the new year starts soon….

18 Jan
Jan Mullen
WEEK TWO (january 9-15) Photos this week come courtesy of NGV where we spent a tiny bit of time before we flew home on Monday. We toured through Shut Up and Paint, appreciating the variety and the curation, rather than ... Read more »

away, gallery hopping, organization, quilts future thoughts

this is soul food

12 Dec
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-NINE (december 5-11) The year both accelerates and compresses in the weeks before Christmas but the title for this weeks post could have been one of many things; feeling the pressure / under the pump / Christmas bah-humbug…. OR ... Read more »

back to my past, organization, quilts artwork process, xmas

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 »

(black) swan, feathering the nest, my studio, organization, our little house, the reading pile garden delights, mongolia, paint chip feathers, studio class

let it bubble up

14 Nov
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-FIVE (november 7-13) I gratefully received responses to last week’s ‘overthinking’ post from some bods that know me very well. The comments and the support/recognition attached was very welcome. Personally, as a result of that hard-thought post, I decided ... Read more »

organization, quilt patterns artwork process, future thoughts, mongolia, tools

to under think and to over think

7 Nov
Jan Mullen
WEEK FORTY-FOUR (october 31-november 6) If you read my blog regularly you will probably have the impression that I think…a lot. Even more than that I over-think….continuously. What got me thinking about over-thinking, and my general manner of thinking, has ... Read more »

organization, OZQUILT, quilt patterns clearing, project priority, studio class

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