quilts – Page 2

the new year starts soon….

18 Jan

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 »

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 »

after christmas comes….

10 Jan

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTY-TWO (december 26- jan 1) After Christmas comes Boxing Day. This day’s ritual is the Mullen family get together and this year, with parts of both interstate families in attendance, the venue, not ours anymore thankfully, is at bursting ... Read more »

what was the panic all about?

10 Jan

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTY-ONE (december 19-25) It is the week before Christmas and the countdown cannot be denied. Panic is setting in as it will be a big week of cooking, cleaning, babysitting and working as much as possible on the ‘wedding ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »