Dec 30
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Woven torn strips for the background, the black bar was an attempt to bring a third direction into the weaving but it failed utterly. However, it looked cool storming off the edge of the page. So the big triangle sat on it, and the white silk pages hung from it and here we are.

Very, very quiet day. Everyone is sleeping a lot, and it makes for long quiet mornings. Tomorrow we go about town for the afternoon, celebrating the early part of First Night (which we call Last Afternoon instead) watching local performers do fun things. Then supper and fireworks, and blessings on the people who organize the fireworks for midnight Greenwich Mean Time which is 7:00 pm for us, so we can see them, cheer madly, and go home and be warm.

Dec 29
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Finally I remembered – I can test things on the postcards. I am thinking about how to get visible triangles across a rectangular surface. Probably easiest if I just paste them down, but I was hoping for some kind of weaving. This came up for a first try. I don’t like the wedge shaped pieces of single color stripes, but they may be weavable as well.

Dec 28
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The muse speaks: Weave, Red Thread, Leaves of Books, now Stop.

Dec 27
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More dreams, or more like the thing I was thinking about yesterday.

I managed to finish the November Journal page today, and posted it to Flickr. The October page is there finally, having finished it ages ago but failed to photograph it. Now I am wondering if it is possible to weave something that comes out triangular. I set the Other Kate to that particular puzzle, and will check back with her tomorrow. Now all I need to do is make the December page in the next couple days.

Dec 26
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I fell asleep this afternoon as hard as if someone hit me with a hammer. Usually I nap for an hour, if I really need it. Today, I woke up three hours later to a silent house. My sainted neighbor had come to see if anyone wanted a movie at their house, and kept them for supper.

I dreamed about white nets, kind of like this. But not exactly.

Dec 25
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Thank you very much – just about perfect.

And a happy Christmas Eve to those who celebrate it. No postcard today. Maybe postcard tomorrow.

Dec 23
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Coming home today the air was warm and wet and there was snow still over everything. The view everywhere was foggy, with things recedeing into the mists at no distance at all. It made things feel very far away, and quite intimate. I was experimenting with making trees and houses vanish behind curtains of mist, using layers and layers of silk organza. I could have gone for a couple more layers, I think….

It is nice to be home.

Dec 22
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There were two duo trapeze pieces; one was my old boss’ daughter and her partner in crime, doing a fabulous thing in red and gold, the other was Elsie and Marina doing something that got faster and funnier as they went along. I very carefully forgot my camera, but the space is so horrible for taking pictures it wouldn’t have mattered anyhow. Someone with much better camerage and more experience was working on photography and even she was having issues with sight lines.

Saturday was actually spent in the car and visiting people. We caught up with Al’s sister and her kids, in NH. The kids are adults now – in their 30s – with babies of their own. Al was dandling his nephew’s baby and having major flashbacks to dandling the nephew. We crashed with the Other Kate for the night (thank you again) and had a great time hanging out and making poor puns and following extended tangential trains of thought.

Dec 21
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Friday was completely crazed, but good. Aerin and I ended it by driving to Brattleboro to help with a show at Nimble – the mid term for the professional track kids and selected students, plus some of the instructors.