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Day: January 21, 2009
Tarts Inspiration???
This tea set has a lovely warm color and wonderful shapes. I can see sitting in a big comfy chair with one of these cups in my hand.

This is one of the most divine teasets we’ve seen.
Buttermilk yellow and moss green glaze. 4 cups and saucers, a milk jug and sugar bowl (open style). 10 pieces in all. No chips, no cracks, no crazing, in perfect condition.
Susan Shie Updates her Garage Door
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SFMOMA and the 1000 Journals Project
I have been slack about posting my various holiday adventures, but, with this post, will try and redeem myself. One of the great things I did on my break over the holidays was go to the SFMOMA with friend Julie. My goal was to see the actual journals from the 1000 journals project in person. Julie has posted a great set of narrated photos about our adventures.
They ended up putting the project in the Koret Education Center. There are people there to watch you, somewhat, working on the journals, so it probably made them feel ok about touching.
Stupidly I didn’t plan ahead and bring an art kit like I had planned, so I rummaged through my purse to see what I had:
- an old temporary drivers’ license
- breast health center “how to get your results” sheet
- pink pen
- Golden Gate Ferry schedule from 1997
With the pencils, glue sticks, pens, etc that the SFMOMA provided my theme turned into bureaucracy. I was able to make a page with which I was pretty satisfied. As Julie said, it was hard to make art standing up. Not very comfy. Other viewers of the exhibit also have a different sense of personal space than I do, so I had to glare at some people who were just too close, and ask them to step back.
I was disappointed to see that some contributors had basically defaced the books with a message of anger and hate of their own. If I had had colored paper, I would have glued it over those messages, which, I guess, is defacing the books as well, in a way. There was a lot of 13 year old boy potty humor as well. Sad to think that people aren’t enlightened enough to think up something that they would be proud to have endure through the ages. Perhaps I am just being a snob because what they wrote doesn’t fit my idea of ‘good’.
I had fun. I found that I actually can do a visual journaling piece. It made me think that, perhaps, I have too many options at home.
I am happy that I got to spend the day with Julie (no children/young adults=freedom) and that I got see and write in the journals. I feel like I made a contribution. The journal I wrote in was number 754.
Inspiration Wednesday
Word of the Day: Skills
Cultivating skill in quiltmaking is often for the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake. I generally try to learn new things so I can improve my quiltmaking, make better quilts and express my ideas more truly to the picture in my mind.