Past, Present and Future

Let's start with Present. On today's crazy schedule is a Chiropractor appt at 6:40am, a dental checkup appt at 7:30am, mailing four mail orders and some paid bills at 8:30am, and then a trip to Minneapolis to my goldsmith for a ring repair at 9:00am. Geez....I'm tired already :-) Oh...and today is trash and recycling day, so I have to make sure those items are on the curb before I leave the house at 6:00am.

(The location for the 2009 Metal Clay World conference - beautiful, isn't it?)

Future - today is a studio day. That means that I will work on, and hopefully finish, my Beading For A Cure project for the 2010 auctions. I also did have an opportunity to practice my ribbon embroidery while I was in Milwaukee. It's really going to make the cloak pop, so I hope that I can start work on the actual curves that I want, and maybe settle (in my own head) whether or not I want to try and work out a convertible neckline, or just make life easier and sew the hood into the cloak for a permanent join. Convertible would be very cool, but it may be more trouble than it is worth and may be better off coming for the next cloak instead. Then I can mark the hem, get it hemmed up and start the embroidery. I truly love the fabric - it'll be a magnificant cloak when it is finished. I also need to start work on my charms for the Metal Clay World conference that I will be attending in July. Ideally I want them to be cold-joined and multi-metal, so I'm working on two possible designs. I will finish BFAC today so that I can devote next week and the following two to this project. I haven't decided if I will enamel them yet, but they will be textured.

And past...well, that's my friend Seth. Seth and I were once very close - if things had fallen into place differently, we'd be spending our lives together instead of with other partners. He was always someone I could talk to and that hasn't changed. Although our schedules are both nuts, and he lives many states away from me, we actually merged schedules for one night of dinner and drinks and catching up on the past 30 years of our lives. He is still beautiful. There is a light in his soul that still speaks to me, even after all of these years. I have rarely had such an enjoyable night just sitting and talking, and I send thanks to whatever Powers managed to arrange for this meeting. I hope there will be more opportunities to get together in our futures.