2 posts tagged “music”
This past week was Amy's last full time week at the Animal Hospital. A licensed Veterinary Tech., Amy is also a school teacher and will be going back to her students soon. She has worked at our hospital for almost 20 years now total. Though she loves her teaching, she stays on at the hospital part time and I am so happy for that. She is just wonderful to work with and a wonderful person period. We share a lot of things outside the work like Horses, Nature, Music (we are both HUGE Springsteen fans!) and she does a lot of Scrapbooking. Though I'm not much of a Scrapbooker, we do share our work with each other.
So a couple of weeks ago Amy & I took lunch together and went to a cool place called Moe's. It's a Southwestern place, you know Burritos and such. It was her treat that day and yesterday it was mine. Knowing that I won't get to see her as often I decided to throw together a CD of music for her. No Springsteen, we've both got plenty. What I did was pick a group of tunes that I knew she'd never hear on top 40 radio. Amy does a lot of driving between work, getting her daughter to/from dance lessons 4 or 5 nights a week, going to the barn every day to care for her horses and then there is the land that she & her husband Eric bought which they are building a barn on and eventually a house. She's a busy lady and I hope that some new and different music will help make all of that time driving a bit more enjoyable.
I drove yesterday and flipped through the music for her. She loved it and was very excited to have "No Radio" music. I explained to her that my criteria is; Feel, Lyrics, uniqueness (is that a word?) and the thrill of finding a piece of music somewhere that has been tucked away, hidden from the masses, which grabs me and makes me feel good. I love to share.
The Playlist of Music For Amy follows but one disclaimer; there are two "radio" songs I added.
Nothing But the Water II Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Ain't No Time Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Big White Gate Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Down Into Mexico Delbert McClinton
Tuesday Morning (acoustical) The Freddy Jones Band
This Land Jimmy LaFave
Car Outside Jimmy LaFave
The Story Brandi Carlile
Summertime Thing Chuck Prophet
How Many Miles The Waifs
Paradise Sona Dada
American Blood Reckless Kelly
All of my music is purchased from Amazon.com, mp3 downloads. I highly reccommend this site!!! All music is clean and free of codes that restrict you from using them anywhere you want.
Peace All, Jacquie
When I got some of these silk cocoons I was a bit concerned about WHAT to do with them at first. I managed to find a recipe for "ungluing" the silk by boiling them in water and dish soap. When dried I found it extremely difficult to handle as it sticks to everything, each strand is so fine. As it turned out I had some roaving and managed to layer the two together on my felting mat. It helped to add small bits and pieces of strings and yarn to the layers. This was my first attempt at felting and I kept telling myself it was a test piece and no one would ever see it!
The end result was plain wonderful! My excitement contained, I then decided that I could embelish it and use it - maybe - someday. Perhaps as a background where it's primitive ness may not be noticed. The idea of stamping the back of the piece with a rubberstamp came to me, I could use it as a pattern right? Right! It worked out great and I was quite pleased with the results. Continuing to admire my "test" piece as possibly no longer a test, I kept going. Taking tiny little threads and painstakingly weaving them through spots for added dimension. With that done, I wanted more, so I took little charmy things and sewed them in. Viola!
Now what? Everytime I placed this piece on something it either just wouldn't work or I couldn't part with it. I really became attached to my little slip of accidental art. It sat safley tucked away for two years until the day came to put this Nature Page in a book I was commissioned to make. I didn't know this woman, never met her, never heard of her and I was making a Beaded Tassel Book for her, about her! Then as the information and history came into my hands regarding her I found out what a truly remarkable woman she is. I read documents she wrote, snippets of her travels, the list of accomplishments throughout her career and personal life. The information contained enough background for me to know that she not only rose from being a backhills country girl to a Major Corporate Executive who never gave up her roots and ALWAYS stayed true to herself. With great pride, I let go of my little test piece. It is in Barbara's Beaded Tassel Book of memories now.
Jacquie
