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lena-in-a-red-dress · 6 years ago

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Supercorp Artist AU

Kara Danvers is something of a local celebrity artist in Midvale. Every street fair she can be found drumming up interest in the arts by taking improv requests from the crowd and drawing each idea on the spot, from memory.

Most are goofy: lazy dogs with lolling tongues begging for belly rubs, a little girl with a bubble of gum exploding across her cheeks, cartoon ducklings splashing happily in hyper realistic puddles. All the while, she explains the color choices she makes, reducing her figures to their basic shapes, the concept of scale.

She also puts in shifts at the face painting station, drawing long lines so they can receive whatever ornate design she'll bestow on their cheeks. All of them are clever and fantastical-- fire engines turned to water dragons, pandas with bamboo pompoms cheering on their wearer, tigerish housecats prowling jungles of books.

But she also takes time for larger projects. Each festival, she can be found in front a wall of canvas, painting whatever strikes her fancy as crowds gather to watch for ten, twenty minutes before wandering off in search of candy apples and funnel cake.

During one such festival, a photographer from out of town is prowling the cordoned off streets, snapping photos to capture the charm of small town americana. They pause at Kara's wall of canvas, and... don't leave. They stare, captivated, as Kara swirls colors together in amorphous shapes that don't resemble anything at all but somehow convey... comfort.

The photographer snaps just one more photo: Kara, oblivious to the world around her as she focuses on the world of color blossoming in front of her. They longer a little longer, hoping to speak with her, but Kara doesn't look up from her work for hours more, long after the festival closes down.

A few days later, the town paper is delivered to Kara's doorstep. A picture of her graces the front page, but one unlike any she's seen before. Haloed by the lights of the festival behind her, Kara's profile was captured in a moment of utter concentration. The crowd at the edges of the image were hazy, but Kara was in perfect focus.

The photograph is breathtaking. A balance of color and proportion that draws the eye to her frozen image. What catches Kara's focus the most, though, is her own smile. It speaks of some hidden knowledge, of happiness. She can't recall what she might have been thinking about-- all she remembers of that session is being entirely in the zone.

The credit at the bottom of the image lists the photographer's name.

Lena Luthor.

It's not long before Kara's agent calls her.

"I've got a buyer for your festival painting," James tells her, the sound of his smile plain even over the phone.

"You know I don't sell those, James."

She donates them around Midvale, as a thank you to libraries, cafes, and schools.

"I know, but you were already not sure where this one would be going." It's true. She's already running out of new recipients around town. "And trust me, what the buyer is offering is worth breaking tradition."

He tells her a figure, and Kara nearly chokes on her coffee. "Are they insane? It's not worth that much! I did it for FUN--"

"A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay. And that was only their first offer. I could probably broker more..."

"Who is it?"

James makes a hesitant noise. "The client wants to remain anonymous. I've only spoken with an intermediary."

Kara scrubs a hand over her face. She can hardly wrap her brain around it.

"Youve been saying you want to grow for a while now. What do you say to taking that first step?"

She sighs. Midvale is comfortable. Her work is beloved, even the stuff she doesn't like. A precipice looms under her feet, and far below her small fish is about to leap into a large pond.

"Yeah, okay."

"Great! I'll make it happen. How soon can it be ready for transport?"

"As soon as they want." For that kind of money, she'll deliver it herself.

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The painting is shipped that day, and so begins a whirlwind of notoriety. The picture in the Midvale Chronicle spreads to the county times, and then to the internet as word of her painting's fate spreads.

Galleries all along the coast invite her to show more pieces, and private collectors reach out in droves. Other artists start sending her invitations to art shows of their own, and suddenly she has connections and contacts across the country.

People want to know her.

It blows her mind, but she loves it. She loves it so much that she moves to National City and open the private studio she's always wanted. Barely a week after arriving, she receives yet another invition to a gallery opening, this time for a local photographer. She almost tosses it before she catches sight of the artist's name.

Lena Luthor.

Kara makes James come with her as backup. She doesn't know any photographers, and anxiously worries that her invitation had simply been a mistake. But when they arrive, the other guests smile at her like they've already met, nodding in greeting as Kara tries to scope out which one of them could be Lena.

She finds herself before she finds her host.

That is, on the wall under a warm focus of light, she finds the same photo of her that had run in the gazette. Again, she's captivated by her own face, somehow even more beguiling in a gallery full of other, equally breathtaking art.

"Can I tell you a secret?"

The unexpected voice beside her makes Kara jump. She turns to find a tall woman in a patchwork velour dinner jacket and wide rimmed glasses.

"This one's my favorite."

There's something about the way one hand is tucked into the pocket of her trousers, and the sharp study in greens eyes that sparkle in a smile, that clues Kara in.

"You're Lena."

Ruby lips spread into a smile. "Guilty." She extends a hand in greeting. "Thank you for coming. I was hoping to meet you."

"L-likewise," Kara stumbles, struggling to maintain her composure and not focus on the heat of Lena's palm in hers. "Wow. Y-your work is amazing."

"Thank you."

"This photo launched my career," she blurts. "And the rest... just, wow."

It's true. There are pictures from all across the country. Some are pastorals, but more feature the people that populate the towns she visited. Twin girls busting a gut laughing over a dripping ice cream cone-- a farmer's face in zoom, weathered and creased by life-- a woman alone on a bus bench, tears in her eyes. On and on and on Kara sees life captured in plain honesty.

"That's kind of you to say," Lena says.

"No, I mean it! It's amazing! I mean, when I paint like that," she gestures towards the photo, "it's because I don't see what I want to, so I have to make it. But you... its like you see the beauty that's already in the world."

Lena looks at her in warm regard, her smile turning quiet.

Only then does Kara realize that their hands are still joined together. "Oh! Sorry."

"I didn't mind," Lena returns smoothly.

Kara's heart pounds furiously. Before she can think of something else to say, a suited man sidles up to Lena and speaks low in her ear. She watches Lena nod, before turning to face Kara directly.

She's not wearing a shirt. The lapels of her jacket plunge downward to meet just below her ribs, framing another work of art in the form of pale skin and gently curving cleavage.

"Mingling duties call," Lena tells her, apology in her voice. "It was lovely speaking with you."

Kara nods dumbly.

"Please enjoy the champagne. It was very expensive."

From anyone else the comment might have seemed pretentious, but the devilish smile that comes with it has Kara laughing.

"Sure thing. I'll take care of those potstickers too."

She keeps an eye out as the night progresses, but she never gets a chance to speak with Lena again. She makes some new friends though, and regales them all about which stall to get the best popcorn balls from at the Midvale Festival, and how they'd need to stop by Buzzed and Toasted for the best cocoa and cupcakes on their way out of town.

Exhaustion drags her home before she can catch Lena's eye again. Disappointment stains the thrill of their meeting, and she spends the next morning picking apart the few words they'd shared for where she'd gone wrong.

When her phone buzzes, she's distracted enough not to notice that the caller is an unsaved number.

"'Lo?"

"Is this Kara Danvers?"

"Um... yeah?"

"This is Lena Luthor."

Kara jolts, banging her hip against the corner of her kitchen table. "Oh! Hi! Hi. How are you?"

"To be honest, I'm a little disappointed we didn't get the chance to continue our conversation last night."

A flush heats Kara's cheeks as she nervously adjusts her glasses. "To be honest... I was just thinking the same thing." She pauses. "Wait, how did you get my number? I mean, I'm glad you did, don't get me wrong, but how?"

"Mr. Olsen left your card with my assistant last night."

James is getting a bonus. Immediately.

"So, I was wondering," Lena continues, "would you be at all interested in joining me for dinner at my place tonight?"

"Wuh-- yes! I definitely would be interested in doing that."

She can practically hear Lena's smile. "Great. How does seven sound? I can text my address to this number?"

"Yeah. It's my cell. Seven sounds great."

She'll have to pre-game a snack in order to make it that long til dinner, but she can do it.

"I'll see you then, then."

"Looking forward to it."

She barely manages to end the call before her knees go weak and she slithers to the ground to lay in a pathetic heap.

"What is my life right now?"

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The address Lena sends leads her to an upscale neighborhood near the wharf. Color lurks behind every corner: graffitied on the sides of buildings and traced onto shop windows and adorning every bus stop overhang.

Kara knows why James hadn't directed her to this area when she'd been scoping out apartments-- even with her recent windfall, she couldn't afford a place here long term. She half expects a doorman when she approaches Lena's building, but all she finds is a normal callbox.

She's buzzed in immediately and one short elevator ride up deposits her into a short hallway left artfully unfinished with polished concrete floors and exposed lighting.

Lena's loft is little different, but the industrial feel works with the high ceilings and simple floor plan. Art exists everywhere Kara as she steps inside: sculptures and beautifully blown vases, and art hangs on every wall.

Including one very familiar piece.

"You're the anonymous buyer!"

Lena looks not at all embarrassed. "I fell in love with it that night in Midvale. It makes me feel."

"Feel what?"

"Depends on the day." Lena tilts her head towards the kitchen, where tantalyzing aromas brew with promise. "Shall we?"

Pasta and wine occupies them for one hour, then two. Over chocolate cake they talk for hours more, about everything and nothing. Lena is smart, and funny, quick to smile and wildly disarming when her eyes soften halfway through their second bottle of wine, focusing on Kara like she's suddenly the only art that exists.

"You intrigue me, Kara Danvers," she says as the clock nears midnight.

Kara holds her gaze, emboldened by the wine humming in her veons. "Can I kiss you?"

"You're welcome to do more than that."

Their lips meet in a tangle of wine and chocolate frosting, and the rest of the world falls away. Kara doesn't leave until morning.

#supercorp #artist au #dunno where tf this came from #but i like #lena luthor #kara danvers

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narniakid · 6 years ago

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The majority of 2018 I spent educating people about the worst drought in 800 years. The Central Coast listened; we not only banded together to raise thousands of dollars, but we filled an entire truckload of donations to deliver to farmers in Western NSW.

It all began sometime around February, when I can recall seeing an article somewhere about how Australia was currently in drought. My family own and operate Mangrove Produce and Hardware, where we supply hay, grain and feed to locals in the Mangrove Mountain region. My mum had mentioned she was having a bit of trouble sourcing feed, because with no grass for cattle to eat, the demand was quickly rising – and so were the prices.

One night when I was reading statistics and stories about the drought, I stumbled across a charity called Rural Aid, who’d been running their fundraising campaign, Buy A Bale, for some time. The aim was to encourage donors to purchase a bale of hay for a struggling farmer by donating $20 or more. It was a fantastic idea, and I got in contact with them. At a time when they weren’t a very well-known non-profit nationally, they were eager to send me fundraising materials to help raise money and spread the word.

March 2018: Help my Mum & I raise money for Buy A Bale!

As I asked around friends and family, and began posting about the drought on social media, I found that most didn’t even realize the majority of our own state was in the middle of severe drought. My good friend and photographer Andrew Cooney approached me with an idea; he discussed travelling to the worst of the drought-affected areas to document the damage, and we agreed to team up with our fundraising efforts to educate the Central Coast and just how bad it really was. Below are some of his photographs from his first visit to a farm in Gunnedah, NSW, and they speak for themselves.

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His photographs caught the eye of Samuel Lentini from Eastcoast Beverages – a local juice company on the Central Coast. Sam decided that he wanted to come on board our fundraising campaign as well, and so – with me still busy collecting our donations, spreading the word, and putting together marketing materials – Andrew and the Eastcoast Beverages team headed to Gunnedah once again, where they delivered a truckload of orange peels from the factory for the cattle to eat. It was such an extraordinary site, it attracted a lot of media attention, including The Daily Telegraph, ABC and Prime 7!

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We spent another few weeks fundraising in person and online, when all of a sudden, the national media seemed to wake up. TV stations and major news publications started to report on all the debt, all the cattle lost, and all the mental struggles the farmers were dealing with.

That was when I met a lady named Sara Evans. She came into my workplace at the radio station, after listening to the breakfast shows discuss the massive impact of the drought. A co-worker steered her in my direction, as I had already been campaigning and fundraising to support our farmers for several months. Sara basically said to me, ‘I’ve got a truck and a driver who’s willing to donate his time, I want to do something really BIG to help these farmers.’

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We both agreed to organize a Coast-wide donation drive, which was a huge job, and we’d only given ourselves a month to plan, market and collect donations leading up to the event day. The idea was to run a drive-through drop-off zone in a central location near the freeway, as we wanted to make it as easy as possible for the public.

We both had a bit of previous fundraising experience, but nothing of this scale, and we hadn’t taken into account exactly just how much help we were going to need – pallets to pack the donations on, a place to sort and store the goods before they were loaded onto the truck, a forklift and qualified driver, traffic control on the day, a LOT of fuel money to get the semi-trailer across the state and back… we’d sort one problem, and then another would arise. And we were juggling this all while still working full-time. It was definitely a giant learning curve for both of us, but we were so incredibly grateful to have the help from dozens of local businesses.

Working for a media company, I was lucky enough to have marketing materials at my disposal – radio interviews and commercials, flyers and posters, and access to our promotional cars to draw listeners in on the day. My whole workplace was extremely supportive, and I am still so thankful to this day for all of their help. I couldn’t have pulled it off without a platform to send out the message across in the first place.

The Central Coast For Our Farmers Donation Drive was a success – while the number of people we had wasn’t as many as we were hoping, the amount that came brought an enormous amount of goods. There were donors who had collected that much dog food, groceries and water that they had to make second and third trips to bring it all to us. We had local schools collect items, business owners filling boxes and boxes of stuff at their workplaces, and families who had added extra items into their trolleys every week when they did their own shopping. It was just phenomenal how much people wanted to help. I certainly didn’t expect collecting enough donations to fill the entire truck, but we did!

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When deciding on where we were going to deliver the donated goods, we had a look into some of the most remote parts of the state, where help hadn’t yet reached. We chose the Packsaddle region, an area about 180km north of Broken Hill. The standout feature of this barren land was a popular venue called Packsaddle Roadhouse on Packsaddle Station, where tourists and truck drivers would often stop to stay the night and grab a feed. The roadhouse was also home to the local SES Base, and Sara got in contact with the venue owner, who kindly offered up the venue for free to deliver and unpack the donations for the farmers, as well as a place for us to stay the night.

We began the road trip about 2 weeks later, with volunteers from Rotary Gosford North coming along as well. My wonderful Dad offered to drive my partner and I in his car, and on the first day, we traveled 14 hours to Broken Hill. As soon as we passed the Hunter Valley region, it was like entering a different country – the overcast weather and rolling hills of the wine country suddenly turned into flat open plains scattered with gumtrees. Everything was so incredibly dry and brown, it was hard to believe that it was once all green. We passed lots of herds wandering the roadside, with farmers leading them from behind to any patches of greenery they could find – the paddocks had turned to dust, so they were forced to look beyond their own properties for food.

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The halfway point to Broken Hill was a town called Cobar, and that was really when the effects of the drought were evidence. I almost expected a tumbleweed to roll past as we got out of the car for a stretch. From there, it got worse – we passed countless signs marking where rivers once were, now dry as a bone. The amount of dead animals on the roadside almost doubled, and as we drove the endless, straight route towards Broken Hill, there was almost no evidence that it had actually rained 50mm in the previous 24 hours. Most of the puddles had dried up already, and the sudden dump of rain had washed away the top soil on any spring crops that were planted. It was heartbreaking to think that at the time we were travelling, it was supposed to be the peak season for growth, but there wasn’t a blade of green grass in sight.

After a night’s stay in Broken Hill, we drove another 4 hours north to deliver and unpack around 60 pallets of donations. Sara and I had organized a party for all the local farming families at the roadhouse, and some had already arrived when we got there to help us set up.

The people I met were just amazing – the most hardworking, honest and down to earth people who could laugh at anything. The best part was seeing the joy on their faces. These farmers, they’d been stuck in a depression, some had really been struggling to get up to work each day. I feel so humbled and privileged to get to see first hand these people reunite with their neighbors and friends, some who they hadn’t seen for months, but had known all their life. We cooked them a free feed for lunch and dinner, treated them to plenty of free beer and set up the truck as a stage where they sang, danced and partied on till early hours of the morning.

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Most of them owned well over 100,000 acres. I spoke to a beautiful woman who’d lived on the land her whole life. To give you an idea of the size, the entire city of Chicago in the USA is around 149,000 acres – she had 250,000 acres, with a few thousand head of cattle. I asked when she’d last received rain. She laughed and said the last time she can recall was late 2015 – more than 3 years ago.

She had 10 working dogs, and the bagged dog food cost too much, so she was shooting kangaroos for them to eat instead. Each dog needed about 2 kangaroos each for a decent feed, but the ammunition for the bullets cost hundreds as well, with each bullet equaling about $5 each. There were hundreds of goats on her property which she could also shoot and sell (too skinny for the dogs to eat), but their value had dropped to $2 per goat – less than the cost of the bullet needed to shoot them.

This same lady had broken down in tears when we showed her the shed full of donations, because it wasn’t the donations themselves that brought these people overwhelming joy – it was the fact that we had gone to the effort to collect them, bring them out here, and put on a big party for them.

We wanted to show them that we cared beyond just making a cash donation for a farm thousands of kilometers away, we wanted to say ‘we hear you, we know you’re there, and we’re coming to give you a well deserved break from the day-to-day stresses of the big dry.’

Every farmer would only take the bare minimum of what they needed, insisting that there were others that needed it more. It was like a big supermarket; they could grab bags and boxes and fill up their utes with whatever they needed. They put aside boxes and pallets of stuff for their friends and neighbours who couldn’t make it.

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Many had told me that a major problem they’d encountered was the rise of bore water in the area. The water quality from the bore water, due to a substantial increase in bores being put in, meant they had to go deeper, and the little water that they could get was full of poisonous minerals and wasn’t drinkable. Most of the money they had went to buying bottled water and bagged feed, because hay prices had skyrocketed.(My family’s own business was suffering too, and we were getting phone calls from all over the state with people willing to travel hours and hours for any hay available to purchase). A lot had told me in terms of food, water and feed, they were down to about 3-4 weeks supply on hand at a time, because they couldn’t afford to redirect any money to stock up. The donations we brought have added another few weeks’ worth of supplies for them and – as equally as important, if not more – a well needed mental relief.

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Andrew and I have continued to raise funds for Buy A Bale, long after I returned from delivering donations with Sara and the Rotary team. We just recently crossed the $19,000 mark, thanks money raised at our local Grill’d restaurants through their Local Matters program. We also raised money through selling merchandise and continuously spreading the word through an online campaign, radio commercials, money tins in our workplaces and articles in local newspapers and magazines.

Despite raising the money and delivering the donations, what truly touched my heart and made this experience stand out from other non-profit work I’ve done was actually travelling there and seeing the devastating impact of drought for myself. It’s one thing to press a button, share an article, give some money, but to actually see the difference it’s making is just extraordinary, and to this day it is one of the most challenging but life-changing things I’ve ever done.

Local businesses are doing it tough and desperately need an economic boost from visitors. A recent NSW Business Chamber survey in regional areas found the drought has negatively impacted more than 84%. Domestic tourism is the backbone of many regional communities, with 86% of domestic travel done by car.

Tourists spent $110 billion in local towns, cities and communities in regional Australia during 2016-17. However, of the international tourists that do visit, over 90% only stay in Sydney or Melbourne.

The best thing you can do to support our farmers is get out and shop in the local shops, eat at the local pubs, and get the money flowing through the local economy again, because the drought affects everyone – not just everyone in these remote towns, but our whole economy.

Drought conditions of NSW as of 24th January 2019 (Source: edis.dpi.nsw.gov.au)

How I Led A Team Of Volunteers to Deliver A Truckload Of Donations & Raise Over $19,000 For Aussie Farmers The majority of 2018 I spent educating people about the worst drought in 800 years. The Central Coast listened; we not only banded together to raise thousands of dollars, but we filled an entire truckload of donations to deliver to farmers in Western NSW.

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bellagbear · 5 years ago

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The most obvious place to find supplies for quilting, embroidery and sewing is, of course, the quilt or embroidery shop. Those shops are either brick and mortar stores or online. However, there are many alternative ways to get supplies for quilting or embroidery. In this article will tell you about four of them:

Befriend a tailor or dressmaker.

Second-hand stores.

Give away groups.

Old clothes and other leftover materials.

I depend mainly on the options I’ve mentioned above. I don’t want to discourage you from going to official stores. Especially the small-scale indie designers do great things for the creative industry to keep it fresh and lively -I will dedicate an article to my favourites later. However, there are many reasons why it is sometimes better to find alternative ways to get supplies:

The environment: Every new item we buy needs to be made and requires resources to do so. It is better to use materials that are already created, be it second-hand materials or materials which had a different use before like clothes. This also prevents more waste from going to the landfill or waste incinerators.

Budget: Buying from specialist shops can be expensive. It is possible to find high-quality material cheaper if you learn how to look for it.

Creativity: Working with a limiting range of materials you cannot influence a hundred per cent triggers creative thinking. Also, I love that each piece becomes unique because you cannot buy the same materials time and time again.

I’ll discuss each alternative option below with some examples of my work. In that way, I want to motivate you to try alternative ways for yourself. It makes the whole creative process less predictable and controllable, and to me, that is part of the fun. And most importantly: it makes our beloved crafts more sustainable.

1. Befriend a Tailor or dressmaker

When I lived in Kenya for the first time in September 2018 I build my fabric stash with scraps from a tailor. At first, they gave me a long and strange look the first time I came round asking for their scraps. However, they gave me what they had and I showed them my work and both parties were happy. When I came home to unpack my scraps I discovered that scraps might not be the right word. Some of the pieces they gave me were HUGE. Most of the fabrics in my Kenyan quilt are from that tailor. Also, there were enough leftovers to give my mother as a souvenir.

The Kenyan Quilt top is finished!

Kenyan quilt block finished

Currently, I am living in Kenya again, and I am doing the same trick with tailors to build a fabric stash again. However, this time I am using different tailors to get more of the African kitenge fabrics. You can see some of my loot in the picture on top. The picture below will give you an idea of how many scraps I already got. I’m planning a paper-piecing quilt with the fabrics and also the Bible Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird, creator of the Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt, with these fabrics. It will look amazing and colourful. And something says me my mother will be interested in these fabrics as well…

A treasure chest bag of scraps

The added benefit of getting fabrics through other creative people is that you will make friends. The last batch of fabrics I got through a new friend who makes souvenirs from kitenge scraps. Also in my experience, tailors love to see what you do with the scraps they give you which gives you a perfect reason to visit them again to check on their scraps. You don’t have to only focus on professions though, you can also ask hobbyists. I’ve seen many people in clothes sewing facebook groups wondering what to do with their scraps. You can do the honourable thing and relieve them of that problem.

2. Second-hand Stores

I love second-hand stores! They have such amazing potential to find the unexpected and awesome both in cloths and crafting materials. Plus, those stores are habituated by friendly old ladies which make you instantly feel at home (at least mine where). The start of my first fabric stash, both for sewing and cross stitch is from second-hand stores. Also, I got many cross stitch kits and finished embroidery pieces from those stories, which can be used in so many amazing ways. One example of that is the dragon bookmark you see below. This dragon is created from a pattern I found online. and two cross stitch kits with a rose pattern. I didn’t like the rose pattern, so I used the floss and fabric to create something else. I’ll write a detailed post about this process later.

Finished embroidery pieces add a nice original touch to sewn projects. And since I don’t have the time to embroider the number of pieces I’d like to use, I also save finished pieces from second-hand stores, because it makes me sad to see that something somebody has spent months or years to create ends up in the landfill. One thing I did with one of those saved pieces is making a small material bag:

To turn an embroidered pillowcase into a material bag

Embroidered material bag

Second-hand stores are an amazing source for materials, however, it depends on luck as well. I used to live close to a second-hand store which always had an amazing stock of fabric and embroidery materials. Which is interesting, because it was tiny. It felt as if all the old ladies in my old hometown were on a schedule to donate their materials so I could stumble upon it. Although, it is more likely that the manager of the shop knew embroidery materials sold well in that place, so all the national supply went to that particular branch. My tiny store was part of a chain of stores run for a good cause.

3. Give-Away Groups

Most of the giveaway groups I know are on Facebook. However, I also hear people getting materials from Craigslist and other websites. It serves to check local buying and selling groups and see what is available for free or a small price. I asked people for leftover fabrics and clothes in a local facebook group and got enough materials for more than two quilts! Creative people like to give stuff away because most of them have more materials in their homes than they can handle. My rally for materials ended in my first finished big quilt:

How to make a scrap quilt with many pieces

Finished scrap quilt

Also, sometimes your local quilt or embroidery guild gives away materials during meetings. At my local guild in the Netherlands, there is a table every meeting where people put fabrics and books they don’t want anymore. Members can take what they want and pay a price what they think is fair for the guild account. There, and second-hand stores, is where I got a lot of the fabric for my Dear Jane Quilt and my Nearly Insane Quilt.

Dear Jane Sampler Quilt Introduction

Nearly Insane Sampler Quilt Introduction

Nearly Insane quilt block 85

Lastly, there is a specific cross stitch facebook group where you can offer a WIP you don’t want to finish anymore. This group is perfect for people who get stressed by all the WIPs they have, but they fell out of love with:

Adopt a WIP facebook group

There are groups like this around for any kind of craft. Google and the search function will help you out here.

4. Old clothes and other discarded fabrics

The last way to get fabrics I want to discuss is using old clothes and fabrics. There is a particular style of quilt called a memory quilt where people use the clothes of persons as a memory to that person. This quilt I’m making for a friend is an example of that:

The big quilt for a lovely friend

The big Quilt example

Beyond this kind of quilts, clothes are in general not considered as suitable quilting materials. I don’t agree with that though, because it all depends on picking the right clothes, knowing the right techniques and the end look for the quilt you’re going for. I love the challenge of making any kind of fabric work in a quilt. It gives the quilt an original look and it teaches you lots of sewing techniques and tricks on how to make unruly fabric behave. And using any kind of scrap fabric is the tradition were quilting comes from after all: in the older days, quilts were made from any old scrap people had. The scrap quilt above has a lot of material from clothes, my Kenyan quilt has, and the quilts below are made from old clothes as well.

The most suitable clothes item is a shirt. Shirts can have amazing patterns, especially the funky shirts that are popular nowadays. Also, they are made from a non-stretchy material. The quilt below is made from shirts and ties. Ties are trickier to work with because the fabric is slippery, but nothing using a lot of pins cannot deal with. The shiny effect of the fabric compliments the shirt fabric nicely in this quilt below.

Using old shirts to make a new quilt

This bird tote bag is another example of what you can do with old shirts.

Geometric bird tote bag

Beside old clothes, there are also other fabrics you can use for your sewing projects. The bag below I made from leftover curtain fabric from a friend. It was a strong fabric, which makes it suitable for a backpack. Especially because I like to carry around a lot of stuff. It was a fun thing that when I visited that friend to see how long it took people to see the similarities between his curtains and my bag. Jeans are also very popular to work with. My aunt makes amazing bags and pillows out of old jeans.

Penguin backpack

Conclusion: And did you learn?!

Now, here are my suggestions to find quilting and embroidery fabric cheap. Now it is time for you to go out and to explore for yourself. Maybe you’ll save a tree by upcycling some long ago loved coats or you’ll keep the ocean a bit cleaner by using the forgotten cross stitch supplies of a neighbour. Anyhow, every little thing we do in our day to day life to reduce the number of resources we use and the amount of waste we create contributes to a better environment. And many small steps will add up into a big leap. Follow my blog to read more of this kind of articles in the future. Let me end this post with some questions for you:

Which alternative ways to get materials do you use?

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Melanie Brummer has created the Up-cycled cloth collective. She aims to motivate sewing people to re-use more materials and to buy less new materials. In this way, the creative communities become more environmentally sustainable. Her global facebook group is a good place to start:

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There are many alternative ways to get supplies for quilting or embroidery. In this articleI will tell you about four of them: 1. Befriend a tailor or dressmaker. 2. Second-hand stores. 3. Give away groups. 4. Old clothes and other leftover materials. The most obvious place to find supplies for quilting, embroidery and sewing is, of course, the quilt or embroidery shop.

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June 25th 2018 My cough is getting worse, and I’m not sure if I should go back to the doctor to get antibiotics or not. Every time I cough for a continued period of time, Rina and Abuela come into my room and give me tea or cinnamon milk. I think it is also keeping Rina up at night because she will come into my room really late and give me medicine to rub on my chest or ask if I am okay. I feel really guilty about this, but it often reminds me that they are a shoulder to cry on, even if that shoulder doesn’t understand what I am saying. Their worry makes me feel like I can openly communicate my issues with them, big or small, and they will sincerely care about my well-being and do their best to make it better. In class we had a lecture by Greg after we reviewed our papers over water or smallholder agriculture. Today he is talking about his research, looking at traditional smallholder farming tactics and modernization. Most geographers think that farmers and mountains do not belong together, so the ultimate question is: Is mountain agriculture doomed? There are a number of downfalls to this industry -It has bad soil (steep slopes, erosion) - climate change - poor access to markets. Part of this diminishment of mountain farming is nontraditional exports, made possible by free trade agreements and low transportation costs. We now see broccoli, asparagus, artichokes, cut flowers, and quinoa from the central and high Andes. Later the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act was founded. The people of the Andes agreed to help them with the drug war, and in return free trade markets would be opened to them from the United States. This was done with individual countries throughout South America; Peru was approved in 2007, Colombia in 2011, and Ecuador was pursing one but renounced in 2013 because of the Snowden case. It was rumored that Ecuador was housing Snowden, and when Joe Biden called Correra and demanded that he follow the U.S. orders and allow them to prosecute the fugitive, Correra, being the socialist-liberal that he is, abruptly ended the trade agreement. This angered Ecuadorians involved in the nontraditional export business because it raised export tariffs. While Dr. Knapp was researching the agriculture of the mountains, he discovered extremely high value flower farming, in the greenhouses that popped up around Andes landscapes. They were surrounded by chain-linked fences, and a guard with a semi-automatic weapons. He went to the mayor to get access to these plantations for his research, and they eventually allowed him to view the houses. This floriculture started in Colombia in the late 1960s, and spread to Ecuador in 1983. It was born from a local, grassroots innovation that is now a multi-billion dollar industry. ATPDEA took off in 2001, so now Ecuador could ship and sell to the United States. 2014 was the Snowden shock and end of ATPDEA, but today it is still growing. Presently, there are 700 plantations, with 4200 hectares in 2017, making a billion in exports a year. There are about 60,000 people employed by the industry, usually women in the countryside that are now getting paid minimum wage. Local employment is an amazing opportunity for them. Previous fates for these women included employment as maids in Quito or hitchhiking to America on trains, which came with harsh mistreatment. Flower plantations do not practice land alienation, and it use local smallholder labor, encouraging pluractivity. Consisting of a wide diversity of cultivars, continuous selective breeding, and pluraculture. Water access is negotiated, and this product lacks scalability, unlike monoculture farms. Today, capitalism co-exists with smallholder farming, inserting itself with opportunities for transformative encounters, and local smallholders retain pluractivity. Their agrobiodiversity can deploy aspects of new technology An example of a portion of the flower industry is Babies Breath. Ecuador is the #1 exporter of Babies Breath to the United States. They employ 12-15 people per hectare, and in contrast to capitalism it absorbs labor, but are still capitalist plantations. A local Babies Breath plantation owner practices charity to his customers by donating flowers to United States veterans killed in combat for Memorial Day. Flower farm owners, in terms of labor, try to stay between 7 to 40 hectares, because over 40 it is not scalable or expandable. Several years ago, the American company, Dole, tried to take over flowers farms, but it was a disaster. They did not know how to deal with the Ecuadorian government, labor union, or strikes so they gave up and left. In Ecuador they have many employment problems because it is illegal to fire anyone. This rule is actually very common outside of the U.S., and as a result the informal economy is hesitant to hire people. Age discrimination is the result; young women are desirable because when they have children they usually quit the job, and free up the company to hire another young woman. Typically, older woman over 40 are not hired because they want it for the rest of their life. Before Ecuador established agricultural regulations, plantations were self-policing to make sure child labor and health laws weren’t violated. Big industries actually prefer to be regulated, because it prevents them from doing something that will ultimately hurt their market, for they do not want to attract unwanted attention. Eventually they had county-level regulations, which included the requirement of Environmental impact statements. Recently, Correra has started to regulate the industry. Now they are only allowed to have green and blue pesticides, color coded by severity in impact, and plastic recycling by factories is required. These requirements have been a result of public pressure. In terms of marketing, rose breeders have relocated to Ecuador. Free trade agreement with European reunion starting in January 2017. For every market, there is a different style of favored flower. For example, Russia prefers red roses with very long stems, while China prefers roses that have painted edges. One could compare this industry to the world of fashion. After class a group of us met up to talk about making ceramics on our last day in Cuenca, and going to Piedra de Agua Fuente Termal & Spa around 2pm. I got a taxi with Allie, Griffin, and Ginger and we arrived at about 3pm. This spa is built almost entirely from limestone rock of volcanic origin. Their main attraction is the thermal water coming from the volcano, but our group did the spa circuit, which included two different types of volcanic mud treatments, a sauna, steam baths, contrast baths, and box steam baths. The water is said to have medicinal and healing properties designed to relieve stress and find serenity. They provided us with these cute, yellow robes, and we spent about 5 hours here. During our circuit we met a couple groups of U.S. students, and a couple traveling South America, so this was definitely a very touristy activity. The student group is doing a two-month social entrepreneur internship in Ecuador, and they stayed in various rural houses around the country. They also showed up all their bedbug bites, and lowkey I think I have bedbugs too and am kind of worried about it (!!!). We had drinks at the spa’s restaurant after and I got a REALLY good frozen strawberry daiquiri. Soon I got another cab home with Ginger, Sylvia, and Whitney. Ginger and I got dropped off second at CEDEI and I got home to eat dinner with Abuela and Freddy. Our meal consisted of dates, rice and chicken…I think? Not sure what type of meat it was. Rina was at her Monday night therapy class, so Abuela came into my room and wanted me to help her pick out colors for her coloring book. She said I was getting a lot better and understanding Spanish! I even was able to know that she wanted to color a sunflower!! I didn’t realize this till the end of our stay in Cuenca, but if I leave my door open to my room, Rina and Abuela come in all the time and visit. Even though Rina has been very kind to me, I feel like I have connected with Abuela more. She is super funny, and even gets annoyed about me about things she thinks I should not do, in a kind of “grandmotherly” way. For example I have been sick and I was drinking coke, so she came over and told me that it’s bad for my throat and to not drink it. Also whenever I wake up she tells me to wrap my neck in a scarf, and put gloves on. I think her favorite word is “chi chi” because she always repeats it to me and then laughs. I don’t know if it means that she is cold or she is dancing lol, but I assume the former. She went to bed after coloring, and Rina arrived home shortly after. We had our quick nightly conversation, and she went to sleep as well. I am still coughing a lot and it woke up Abuela. She came into my room three separate times: once to check on me, the second time to put this minty stuff on my lymph nodes and nose, and a third time to give me this breathing mechanism where the goal was to breathe through a tube until all three of the balls were at the top. I have no idea what the purpose of it was, but I had to do it like fifteen times before she went back to bed. I ended up staying up till about 12:30am, paranoid about if bed bugs were biting my ankles, but also grateful that I have the opportunity to get bites in ECUADOR.

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Hey friends! Matt, Riese, Freyja, Zara, and I enjoyed our first full weekend in our new home!

We did a fair amount of eating out because there are so many great places walking distance to us now, which we love.

First up: burgers on Friday night at Holy Cow.

Plus truffle fries + sweet potato waffle fries shared with Matt. So good!

We spent the rest of the night working on unpacking and organizing around the house. I’ve been slowly working my way through ALL my clothing trying everything on one by one and am basically donating or consigning about half of it. Feels really good to declutter!

On Saturday morning, we took a nice family stroll and then dropped Freyja off and walked over to the Del Ray farmers’ market! We used to be walking distance to a farmers’ market at our apartment back in the day and LOVE being able to walk to one again.

These peaches were so good! We bought a bunch.

Other farmers’ market finds (I’m hoping Riese likes the veggie burgers):

That watermelon gazpacho was so good. Riese didn’t like it but we did!

This pasta with kale pesto was delicious, too.

We picked up breakfast sandwiches from Hog Haven Farm at the market and then walked home for lunch. I added some greens on the side of mine with a simple olive oil + lemon juice drizzle and some fresh dill.

The rest of Saturday was spent doing more house stuff!

We did as much as we could while Riese was napping, and then when she was up we went to Target to get some random odds and ends, and also discovered this awesome pillow that my fellow Stranger Things fans will enjoy. I was seriously tempted to buy it. ;)

We were hungry after unloading everything back at home so we decided to walk over to Tacqueria el Poblano for dinner.

We started with some guac (which Riese loved) + chips, and then I had the grilled fish platter. Everything was delicious!

We had a bunch of leftovers so Matt threw together a huevos rancheros variation for us on Sunday morning for breakfast.

Also, Riese randomly slept until 7:45 and it was the most amazing thing ever (she’s been getting up anywhere from 5:15 to 6:15 lately, so this was a really nice change).

Post-breakfast we took Freyja for a walk, but Riese refused to get in the stroller (#toddler), so the first part of the walk looked like this until I bribed Riese with a pouch to get her to sit. ;)

We met friends at the pool on Sunday mid-morning and had lunch there – their blackened salmon BLT wrap is so good.

And then we did a lot more work around the house that afternoon before my parents came over for dinner! We had our usual: grilled steak + salad, so I didn’t get a photo, but it was delicious.

It feels good to be getting more and more settled into our new house and neighborhood! I’m actually testing out a new co-working space in Old Town Alexandria today which is fun – before Riese was born I used to work out of a co-working space in Dupont Circle in DC, but since she arrived it has made more sense to work at home due to nursing and not wanting to waste time unnecessarily commuting while paying for childcare, etc.

But now that she’s weaned and we are settled in our new house, I decided it was time to mix it up! It has gotten really hard to work from home nowadays because if she sees me and then I disappear again she gets really upset/tries to get into my office. Plus, I can hear her having fun with our babysitter and that makes me sad! So, yeah. I decided it was time to find a separate space to work, take calls, and meet AnneTheRD nutrition clients on my 2 childcare days per week.

I’m liking this space so I think I’ll sign up – it’s cheaper than my old co-working space so that’s a win, especially since I’ll only be here twice a week! And it’s a really short drive or bike ride away. Easy!

Have a nice day and I’ll see you back here on Wednesday! I have a great giveaway coming for you marathon runner readers… get pumped. :)

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