Writing on the road & at home

The first year+ I was out over the road driving truck I started making notes for the second novel I want to write. I indulged my retail therapy needs buying books researching for it. During the summer and fall of last year I worked a local driving job and had time in my home to consolidate and focus my vision for the project. The note taking and research continues, but now I am back out over the road again and have set up a little corner of my truck as my writing space. Now I am beginning the process of typing up, editing and refining the chapters I have already scribbled into a pile of spiral bound notebooks. At a delivery the other day I dumpster dived a zz plant from a indoor plant decor place, and brought it into my corner. They thrive in low light, and it's the perfect creative companion. Slow steady progress,  even, thick glossy layer upon layer of pages and leaves.

My truck corner is really my place holder for the corner of the world where home is. There my wordsmithing is company to the sun and the grasses I braid to settle my thoughts and compose them into the form of a line.

 10/2021:

 Still working on my project. My puppy is getting used to this time spent being part of our routine.

 

Biked to a particular favorite spot: a cypress grove on the shores of Rend Lake in Illinois. Spent a few hours writing in the wildlife blind.

 

This process has been great for my memory. I think of a few things and work to remember them through out the day while I am driving, until I can either take a break to jot them down in a notebook, or find the pace in the typed text and get it into the computer document. Taking time at home to go over all these piece-meal contributions and synthesize them is very relaxing, and a reasonable task. 

💜Recycled wool Men's Vest for a special someone

Vest made from a pair of wool pants as a specially requested gift for my son.

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I especially like the way I inset the pockets on the front😏 No pattern. $killzzzzz😜

 

 

🐌 Sentimental Quilt Commission

Snail Quilt commission made from old sentimental clothing. 🐌👕👖🧣🧥👙🥻64"x57"

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In a previous chapter of my life I was a clothing designer for a living, making machines out of conductive textiles, ready-to-wear & wearable art from upcycled materials. I worked with a great client & wholesaler who commissioned a similar quilt about 10 yrs. ago.

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 Last summer she contacted me out of the blue and asked me to make her another one. Then she sent me a box of ummm 🙄.... clothes that have been ridden hard & put up wet... shredded, stained sweatshirts and pants,  moth eaten stained sweaters, stretched out bathing suits, lots of well loved shirts and one nice organza skirt. This project has felt like being on a competitive cooking show trying to make something gourmet out of roadkill and wild harvested weeds gathered along the highway of her life. 

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But I really love snails so I made it work. It even has pockets in the rocks at the base of the trees! Whew! Big job out the door before I head back out into the wild blue yonder!! Er Mah Gawd! So glad it's DONE!

 PS. Living in my tiny house honestly this project would have taken over my world so I rented a storage unit down the street from my house a set up my operation in there. Conveniently I also remodeled my house at the same time so it was great to have some overflow space. My home building/doings is at: homemadesolartraveltrailer.blogspot.com