feathering the nest – Page 3

gear up & wind down

30 May

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 »

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 »

I can’t let it go….

17 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK NINETEEN (may 9-15) I can’t let it go…. When I wrote last week I was VERY close to giving up on pulling together a piece to enter in OZQUILT’s AW5 – even though there are still a couple of ... Read more »

quick, slow, slow, quick

9 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK EIGHTEEN (may 1-8) Two things to be quick about this week; Working towards twentyONE+ targets and deadlines – fast and furious – and trying, trying, trying to get a hang-worthy 40cm x 40cm Art Quilt ready to enter OZQUILT’s Australia ... Read more »

starting to breathe

26 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK SIXTEEN (april 18-24) Two things constantly vie for my attention of late – my growing family and twentyONE+. My artwork and my myriad toDO list items merely bob around on the horizon occasionally coming close enough for me to ... Read more »

a big week of doing/ a big week of thinking

11 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FOURTEEN (april 4-10) About three weeks ago I purchased an App that I had investigated multiple times. I am often slow in committing with Apps and new ways of working. Will it do what I want it to? Will ... Read more »

clear straight line vs plodding

5 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTEEN (march 28- april 3) As it is now April – a third of the year is gone. It is rushing by – though some days I ease forward and some days I go round in circles. This week ... 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 »

arrived, entered, painted

29 Feb

Jan Mullen

WEEK EIGHT (february 22 -28) At the start of the week we are waiting for bounce down…when we will take over Esther duties, whilst we await news of the safe labour and arrival of grandy number four. I keep myself ... Read more »

circuitous thinking & second guessing

22 Feb

Jan Mullen

WEEK SEVEN (february 15 -21) The waiting game has continued all week…tenterhooks have given way to resignation. This next bub, we had hoped, would be bought into the world on its own terms – for both mum and bubs sake ... Read more »