\nThe feeling is compounded with the final meeting, the final report tweaking and a lovely celebratory dinner with the twentyONE+ team.
\nThis project, that has stretched us all, is as good as done – the only downside being that I will miss catching up regularly with this team that gelled so nicely.
\nI cannot start another project in the foreseeable future, I need to self nurture and to be available for my family, but the problem solving and the friendship that comes with teamwork will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n
So what do I want to be now?<\/strong> To help make sense of the near and far future I did commit to a mind map app. My recent clear out and freshen up of the studio necessitated a fresh look at this need. I still needed SEE the big picture view. There was again a tiny touch of stitch….I worked on quilting the three silk cushion fronts between tasks. My foray into getting some classes going has faltered..this morn I cancelled the first one as there were not enough bods to run it. Sad but realistic. One of my tasks with priority this week was to organise a project that has a hand stitch OR a non-machine element so that I can sit quietly at night and work at slowly. This was a task for Friday but despite a slew of ideas, both old and new, I could not settle on something that glowed with need… Down south and we decide to use the wet winter morn to head to Pinjarra for plants to fill an empty section of front fence. Natives to form a bird-attracting hedge was the current thought so we have Westringas, Waxes and Grevilleas. Fingers crossed. So cold down here on Sunday morn.<\/p>\n
\nWhat do I want to spend my time on?
\nAnd how can I continue to stretch myself and to learn?<\/p>\n![\"out](\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_4780.png\")
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\nI have needed yet another layer<\/em> of organisation to clear my head and help me to sleep better at night.
\nI did try to find a ‘big picture type app’ to suit me earlier in the year.
\nWith no success so I turned old school and printed out the year and stuck it on a board.
\n<\/em>It was not what I wanted but it did serve to scare me as I crossed off the weeks and tore off the months!
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\nA upstairs board cannot be with me anywhere else but upstairs and I needed an app<\/span> to access whenever my constantly flitting thoughts needed recording or tweaking.<\/p>\n
\nWhat I wanted was now refined as I already work well through ToDoist<\/strong> for daily\/weekly\/longterm tasks and I use Day One<\/strong> to record what I do plan and do daily.
\nBoth help me feel like those small tasks do<\/strong> make a whole.<\/p>\n
\nI needed it to be visual\/diagramatic and it needed to work on my ipad only this time.
\nMy use will be irregular – as it is a long term planning need – so I did not want a hefty system with a hefty price.
\nI settled on SimpleMind<\/a> for my ipad as it is very simple and intuitive.
\nSo far I have made three maps, Studio, 2016 & 2017.
\nEach have been tweaked a few times…each seem to clear my noggin a little? We will see…
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\nThe velour backings from the previous cushions were unpicked – an unpleasant job – and slowly I completed all three by working to my deadline.
\nI loved the original versions but surprisingly these are better…. I am so glad that these offcuts needed to stay with me.<\/p>\n
\nI have put up extra dates, on the menu above and will send them out to my database soon.
\nThis will see out the year but again, I will not advertise them widely.
\nI can get by without teaching<\/em> but I yearn to empower, educate and excite others. Salvage\/Selvedge was a forum for what I love doing best….perhaps I cooked my own goose in teaching for free for eighteen months?
\nAlas I cannot afford to do a project like that again.
\nTwo eighteen-month projects, working gratis, the first with many studio & hosting costs, has not empowered my bank balance….<\/p>\n
\nThis task is shoved to next week’s thought pile – hopefully with a more successful outcome as I am itching to get a long term SLOW project underway.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWe tried blueberries early on but despite all the advice and care given they failed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThey did survive the first night in our FROSTY garden so here’s hoping.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n