{"id":1433,"date":"2009-03-21T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:35:04","slug":"small-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/small-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I listened to an interview with Mary Lou Weidman on Annie Smith’s podcast this morning. I listened to and wrote about it before<\/a>. You can find the podcast and show notes at Simple Arts<\/a> and the podcast on iTunes. It is the 4\/17\/2008 episode<\/a> and well worth your time. Mary Lou is a really positive person and what I noticed about this podcast was her discussion of small blessings. I know that blessings can be a loaded word for some. I think of her concept as small treasures anyway.<\/p>\n

Mary Lou talked about enjoying the small things in life: a special pear with a wonderful slice of cheese on it, a nice cup of tea, a wonderful bar of soap or bottle of lotion. While I have been trying to, generally, think positive, this comment gave me a little shove in the right direction. I also realized that there were a few recent things that I have really been enjoy.\u00a0 I recently received some apricot vanilla bars of soap and some of my favorite chocolates from a very special person in honor of a very special anniversary. Times are tight financially right now and these were in lieu of the\u00a0 wished for trip to Hawaii. I find, however, that I am not too disappointed and that I think about these gifts very often. I really<\/strong><\/em> am enjoying them.<\/p>\n

\"Fabric<\/a>
Fabric Closet, Working<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also, I have been rummaging through my stash quite a bit lately for fabric for the Tarts<\/a> and other projects. I do this pretty regularly, but am not buying as much new fabric, so I am paying more attention to the fabric I have. It is really fun!<\/p>\n

\"Crazy<\/a>
Crazy Test, Complete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I also finished the Crazy Test on Thursday. It is ready for…something. I don’t know what it will end up as or who it will end up with.<\/p>\n

In general, all is well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I listened to an interview with Mary Lou Weidman on Annie Smith’s podcast this morning. I listened to and wrote about it before. You can find the podcast and show notes at Simple Arts and the podcast on iTunes. It is the 4\/17\/2008 episode and well worth your time. Mary Lou is a really positive … Continue reading “Small Treasures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[316,75,330],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-gifts","tag-media-review","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}