Summertime Goals: June Summery Summary

Daily Goals (new):
Do a Daily Drawing. 26/30

During my vacation East, I came up with a series of Clutter drawings, starring my Betsey Johnson Kitty Bag:

Adventures of the Betsey Johnson Kitty Bag -- click image to embiggen
See even larger separate images on the Sketch Blog.

Create a new Waterlogue from old road trip photos. 2/30
Post a piece of art on Saatchi Art. 2/30
These two items are done simultaneously. Did a bunch in May before vacation for digital entries to two shows. Finding it difficult to do both a daily drawing and a daily Road Trip waterlogue during the work week. Maybe it's something I do on the weekends.

Weekly Goals:
Sew and/or repair at least one garment. 1/4

Still not entirely sure about this mend.
It's my schlubby around-the-house tee, but the mend made it less soft and comfy.

List at least one item on Poshmark 10/4
In the process of uploading my remaining 4 x 6" EDGE digital watercolors.

Upload new art to Redbubble. 3/4

Redbubble link

Sew one patch onto the Crazy Quilt. 0/4

Summer Goals:
Get taxes done. not yet
DeClutter the living room (again). no
Get sewing machine repaired. (how many years has this been broken now?) no
[Green text items are carried forward from 2017.]

Do you have any sort of "To Do" list for Summer? Or maybe a "Honey Do"?
I'll report back again at the end of the July, progress or not.

Hey procrastinators -- last day to link up for June!
PSYCH!
The party continues until the end of August.

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Linking up with
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week
Catherine's #shareAllLinkup

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Remember doing those summer vacation reports in grade school? Me neither.

I'm doing this more for me than for you. I'll be writing more detailed posts on my various blogs. This is functioning as my Table of Contents and link center (adding links as posts are written). You're welcome to come along for the ride!

LAX - BOS
I mended (until I dropped my seam ripper under my seat) and sketched.

Getting from Boston to Providence was an adventure. More on that later.

Providence
A short and wonderful visit with Patucci and Mark, including perusing the Repair and Design Futures at the RISD Museum [museum link] (closes 6/30/19)
My long post about it link.

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RISD Museum: Repair and Design Futures through 6/30/19 This is text from the exhibition. #mendingmatters #slowsewing #slowstitching #mending #mendingasmetaphor

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A few tense moments chasing the box of art, which I picked up at the Post Office as I was leaving town:

Vermont
Rendezvoused with Annie at her sweet cabin.

Finished customizing the tiaras for our 45th high school reunion parade.
Covered a random princess (on Annie) and Hello Kitty (on me) with our school's founder, Emma Willard

Got the art out of the box and affixed to foam core for display at the reunion.
More on the art on the On the Edge blog.

Troy, NY
As mentioned, 45th reunion. A small, yet mighty gathering of the class of '74

Ready for the Parade of Classes [photo by Liz Westbrook '75]

Severo showed up Saturday night and he joined us for the Class Dinner:

Barneveld, NY
A few days at Mom's, plus museum visits.

Meetup with Shelbee and Sons at The Adirondack Experience!
Writeup link here.

Tiffany exhibit at the Munson Williams Proctor Institute (through September 8, 2019)

It seemed that every time we were in transit, it rained. The drive from Barneveld to Newark was especially harrowing -- Severo almost hit a deer on US17, a six lane highway.

NYC
William Greenberg Desserts, the Met, shopping -- an ideal day in the city.

Met Camp exhibition (through September 8, 2019) for her:

Richard Quinn AW18-19

Met Play It Loud exhibition (through October 1, 2019) for him:

Posing with Lennon's Rickenbacker

Gluttony East link
Dessert Gluttony link

EWR-LAX
Aerial views and Procreate patterns:

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Linking up with
Patti's Visible Monday
Shelbee's Spread the Kindness
Catherine's #ShareAllLinkup
Ageless Style Linkup

Summertime Goals

I was linking up old Summer-themed posts to this month's Link Party (see below to add yours) and a few of the posts that came up were a Summer Goals link up from two years ago (it went on all summer. Here's the August  2017 wrap-up post). What's kind of eerie is these copy/pasted goals (in green) work equally well for me now (with only one item deleted that is no longer viable and some new additional Daily Goals).
Is that good or bad?

Motivation:
Me in the shirt dress, Severo's 50th birthday surprise party, 9/2005 . Sold on Poshmark 31 hours after listing, 6/2019

Daily Goals (new):
Do a Daily Drawing.
Create a new Waterlogue from old road trip photos.
Post a piece of art on Saatchi Art.

Weekly Goals:
Sew and/or repair at least one garment.
List at least one garment item on Poshmark
Upload new art to Redbubble.
Sew one patch onto Crazy Quilt (new).

Summer Goals:
Get taxes done.
DeClutter the living room (again).
Get sewing machine repaired. (how many years has this been broken now?)

Do you have any sort of "To Do" list for Summer? Or maybe a "Honey Do" list?
I'll report back at the end of the month, progress or not.

Get out your summertime gear and get linking!
(not just outfits -- anything summery is encouraged)

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Summertime Link Party

It's June 1st, I turn Level 63 on 6/3 and let's party!
I got this "Level" thing from a funny Instagram post:

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Life is a game, I’m way past Level 43 🙌Come on kids, keep up🤣#lifeisshortplayhard #nextlevelthinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STILLDOWNUNDERTHEDUVET☕️#sundaymorningvibes #easylikesundaymorning #instaquotes #coffeelovers #coffeeaddicts #guiltfreesunday #balancedlife #takingiteasy #fitnessoverforty #overfortyandfit #stylish40s #discoverunder5k #relateablequotes #overfortyandfabulous #overfiftyandfabulous #oversixty #badasswomen #olderbolder #ownyourage #gamingquote #lifestylequotes #agepositive #agequotes #inspirationalquotestoliveby #ageisanumber #ageisastateofmind #ageisanattitude #ageisaprivilege

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I'm looking forward to a trip east in 11 days (but who's counting? Haha).
I'm still trying to figure out how to get from Providence RI to Vermont. (Renting a car).
I'm also supposed to finish an oil painting that I haven't started. (Sigh).
Nope. My recipient made the fatal mistake of saying "don't worry about finishing the painting".
Does doing a Waterlogue count? No.

Fripp Island Beach, South Carolina

Get out your summertime gear and get linking!
(not just outfits -- anything summery is encouraged)

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Linking up with
Shelbee's Spread the Kindness
Catherine's #shareAllLinkup

Fierce 50 Fun In the June Gloom

It was fun despite the lack of sun. 

Day after simulation of my attire, including the hat and goodie bag c/o Chico's.
The "Matadors" muumuu has a good back story that I told in this old post.

About 30 women from the Fierce 50 Facebook group convened under the Hermosa Pier on Saturday.

There was a drone, and lots of InstaHusbands taking photos.

We didn't let the gloomy marine layer get us down.

Can you tell we all got into the 4th of July spirit with our red, white, and blue attire?

Rena's and my red toes in the cold, cold sand

What came in the goodie bag?

"Hello Beautiful" pouch with Madison Reed hair care samples

Arctic Cool cooling towel -- so awesome!

Mom Energy, by Ashley Koff and Kathy Kaehler

Dermalogica lip treatment -- LOVE!

Belt from Manna Dabholkar [hidden]

Lylo [Love Yourself Love Others] rubber bracelet

Tote (similar) and hat from Chico's

Big shoutout to Catherine Grace O'Conner and Jodie Filogomo for organizing this weekend series of events.
It was a super fun time, meeting all these fellow over-fifty Fiercies.

Ladies, are you 50+ and interested in joining the revolution? 
Find us on Facebook and Instagram @the fierce50revolution

Linking up with
Patti's Visible Monday
Catherine's #iwillwearwhatilike
Shelbee's Spread the Kindness
Judith's Hat Attack (finally wearing a hat in a post!)
Cherie's Shoe and Tell
Rena's Fine-Whatever

Summer Fun

I'm joining up with some blogging friends, sharing my list of things I'd like to accomplish this summer.
Following are incriminating photos of what could be called my clutter crime scene:

Repair Mountain (aka Sewing Mountain)
There are actually several of these in various rooms.

Resale Rendezvous with The Shrine barely visible

The Clutter Magnet Coffee Table

See? Clear evidence that a blogger's home is not always beautifully staged!
(Well, is mine ever? Do I care?)

Weekly Goals:
Sew and/or repair at least one garment.
List at least one garment on Poshmark
and one on Trendlistr [if I can ever get back into the site, that is].
Upload new art to Redbubble.

Summer Goals:
Get taxes done.
DeClutter the living room (again).
Get sewing machine repaired.

Linking up this week with
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week

plus:

Do you have any sort of "To Do" list for Summer?
Link and tell!

An InLinkz Link-up

#tbt The Bathing Suit

Enter the time machine, back to the 80s again:

I'm in a sassy bikini that I sewed, camping in Mexico.

Ah, bikini days are long gone!
Add your summer-themed pictures and posts here:

#tbt Summer Sunglasses

Doesn't this photo from 1993 say everything there is to say about summer?
Reading a book on the beach, wind-blown sea-salted hair, happy relaxed smile.

The location is Watch Hill, RI. The book is "Morgan's..." [something from the canon of English literature -- can't ID]. Granted, the the book isn't your typical beach read, I probably found it on the shelves at the rental.

Here's another:

Summer 1982 at Jone Pasha's home in Jamestown, RI, watching the Tall Ships sail up Narragansett Bay.
(If I ever locate the rest of the photos from that party, I'll write another post about it).

I still have those sunglasses! And their sibling!

I got them from an optometrist who was located on Thayer Street in Providence.
He had an amazing collection of vintage frames.

Add your summer-themed pictures and posts here:

#tbt August = The Dog Days of Summer

It's summer in the northern hemisphere -- is it hot enough for you?

[I had no idea that was Nat King Cole singing that! Thanks YouTube!] 

It's the first Thursday in August, and time for a new #tbt Linkup theme: The Dog Days of Summer