Blockage
03-24-2011, 10:06 AM
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Location: Pratt Kansas
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I have been blocked on several arenas for a long time. Housekeeping. Creativity. Weight. Friendships. Isolation. Personal care.
This is due to a history of trauma. Family scapegoat. Eleven surgeries. (After one, my poor ma said to me, "Honey, I guess I didn't knit you together well enough." I let her know it was nothing she did or did not do, def not her fault.) Unending verbal abuse. Actually, it did end, as I disowned the abuser 2 yrs ago.
Anyway. Blockage. Somehow, March 9, I got an email saying here is your quilting newsletter. I did not sign up for a newsletter & the link was faulty. But, in the email was a website & I looked for the site & found this DB. I signed up the next day.
Somehow, it all turned my corner. In most of my arenas. I signed up for two exchanges. I bought from ebay 2 charmpks & a jelly roll. I have 2 packages pending from members here. Based on a post about a 3 pound assortment of fabric @ fabric.com $20, bought 2, used a 15% coupon code from here, the order was over $35, so free ship & it was $34 for 38 each 1/2 yds of the most amazing fabrics. (If good fabric is $7.50/yd, it was $140 worth of fabric.) I planned a quilt using the ebay & fabric.com fabric. I will start it after I have completed the exchanges. ... And, work on the UFO, of course.
Designated past Saturday as quilt day. That's all I did. Organized 1 sewing drawer, planned next section of a UFO (why I org'd the drawer), jelly roll & 1 charm pack arrived, matched up the matches. Cut strips for scrappy rail exchange.
Sun, a few house tasks. sewed rail strips. Some misc. mending.
For the last 3 days, I have worn makeup!!! moisturized face. cuticle oil on fingers.
Quilt blocks remove Blockage !!! :-o
This is due to a history of trauma. Family scapegoat. Eleven surgeries. (After one, my poor ma said to me, "Honey, I guess I didn't knit you together well enough." I let her know it was nothing she did or did not do, def not her fault.) Unending verbal abuse. Actually, it did end, as I disowned the abuser 2 yrs ago.
Anyway. Blockage. Somehow, March 9, I got an email saying here is your quilting newsletter. I did not sign up for a newsletter & the link was faulty. But, in the email was a website & I looked for the site & found this DB. I signed up the next day.
Somehow, it all turned my corner. In most of my arenas. I signed up for two exchanges. I bought from ebay 2 charmpks & a jelly roll. I have 2 packages pending from members here. Based on a post about a 3 pound assortment of fabric @ fabric.com $20, bought 2, used a 15% coupon code from here, the order was over $35, so free ship & it was $34 for 38 each 1/2 yds of the most amazing fabrics. (If good fabric is $7.50/yd, it was $140 worth of fabric.) I planned a quilt using the ebay & fabric.com fabric. I will start it after I have completed the exchanges. ... And, work on the UFO, of course.
Designated past Saturday as quilt day. That's all I did. Organized 1 sewing drawer, planned next section of a UFO (why I org'd the drawer), jelly roll & 1 charm pack arrived, matched up the matches. Cut strips for scrappy rail exchange.
Sun, a few house tasks. sewed rail strips. Some misc. mending.
For the last 3 days, I have worn makeup!!! moisturized face. cuticle oil on fingers.
Quilt blocks remove Blockage !!! :-o
03-24-2011, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
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That is wonderful! So nice when we get to do something we enjoy & do it just for ourselves & feel so good while doing it and for time afterwards too.
I love my horse & my family & friends know that any time I spend with him is my "horse therapy". Well now that I have started quilting I have realized that it makes me feel good the same as my horse. So now I have "quilt therapy" too. I try to have a little of one of my therapies every week. Makes my already half full glass fill to the brim! Happy quilting! Happy Blockage removal too! :D
I love my horse & my family & friends know that any time I spend with him is my "horse therapy". Well now that I have started quilting I have realized that it makes me feel good the same as my horse. So now I have "quilt therapy" too. I try to have a little of one of my therapies every week. Makes my already half full glass fill to the brim! Happy quilting! Happy Blockage removal too! :D
03-24-2011, 11:06 AM
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Location: Merced, CA
Posts: 4,188
This sounds a lot like Flylady's history. An overweight, slobby woman put down all the time by her supposedly DH, then she got her head together and got rid of a lot of trash, decluttered from Husband to garbage.
Good for you!! Keep on trucking....Keep on quilting, and keep us in your thoughts because we're rooting for you.
Good for you!! Keep on trucking....Keep on quilting, and keep us in your thoughts because we're rooting for you.
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