Jared Takes A Wife in NY!

Yes, I know.

I know that the slide shows are back to being stupid again, requiring logins that go nowhere.

It isn’t me. But it is something that hasn’t been resolved with the service I use, and so today’s slide show is an attempt to see if webshots has gotten any better.

The one thing I don’t like about webshots is that the slide show does this “cropping and panning” thing, which means that often only PART of the photo is visible, and it is often not what the main focus of the photo is --and it is MOVING AROUND--the previews for the slide show also don’t show ALL the pictures in the album, so if it is a large album with many photos, you need to click to view the whole album or miss half of the good stuff.

Does anyone out there know of a good FREE site for storing photos with good slideshow capability? It’s a lot of work to edit down, say, 65 photos to get them viewable --- and if there isn’t a slide show viewer that is user friendly, I’m afraid that I’m going to have to give up on presenting these. I don’t want to stop ---but I don’t know what else to do!

We had a great class --- we met in the volunteer ambulance hall in North Salem, NY! The room was large and airy – a second floor room with large windows, lots of light and gorgeous wooded surroundings. We opened up the windows for some fresh air and were gifted by the lovely wonderful spring aroma of a riding lawn mower cutting the grass for what may have been the first time this season ---- BLISS!

I loved all the fabrics that were brought by the students, each quilt so unique in its own way just by the simple changes in the fabric and color schemes.

There are always things that I find FUN or INGENIOUS when teaching for a group…..let’s start with the fun, shall we?

Once upon a time there was a very lovely bottle of champagne that came in a very lovely cheddar box ---

Though the champagne was quickly consumed and a “thing-of-the-past” –the humble cheddar box remained, lonely without its contents, and afraid that it too would be sent off to the “recycle bin” with other unremarkable household trash.

Oh what a sad thought for this poor little champagne box!

Never fear, lovely cheddar orange champagne box --- your life as a quilting container will be much more fulfilling and purpose filled than it EVER was as just a simple champagne bottle box……you will live out your days holding dreams and quilty-possibilities and your lovely cheddar color will bring smiles to all who see you full of quilt pieces, notions and whatever else your future may hold!

((Does the box live happily ever after? I think so! Oh what a happy champagne box! :cD ))

Now the question is….WHERE can *I* find my own cheddar orange champagne bottle box?!

Does your guild have issues with never enough ironing boards or ironing surfaces? Here’s something I thought was INGENIOUS!

For those plastic topped light weight tables…….

SImply put a large baking sheet upside down on top of the plastic table and cover it with a folded towel. The baking sheet will protect the table top from melting from the iron heat --- and it gives a firm enough surface for nice pressing ----without being “too” spongy! We had several ironing stations like this set up along long lengths of table –it worked REALLY WELL!

So on to the slide show….oh I hope this works. Click the link below the slide show to get to the album to see ALL the photos ---in full size, without them being cropped and moving ---unless you want to miss the parts that the slide show has cut off..why do they do that?

Jared Takes A Wife, Somers NY 2012