Joy posted: " Before I do more catch up posts, I thought I'd tell you bit about what I have planned for 2022... not sure if they are goals, plans, wishes or dreams... probably all of the above! We have been back in our own home for about 6 months now... and they h"
Before I do more catch up posts, I thought I'd tell you bit about what I have planned for 2022... not sure if they are goals, plans, wishes or dreams... probably all of the above!
We have been back in our own home for about 6 months now... and they have gone by quickly! When I look around, I can see that we have made progress... we now have solar panels on the roof and I have an a/c in my studio! Which means I can come out here on hot days
Work on the septic has not yet begun, but we have made a start on a few preps for it. We needed to move the driveway before the septic can go in, so that is almost done... and now we are waiting for a few more trees to be uprooted... I keep telling myself, it is going to look great... it is going to look great.... !
I've been doing a LOT of sorting, decluttering and organizing in the house. I also keep telling DH that I think I am almost done... hahaha! When I am done with the house, it will be the first time in about 10 years that I'll have finally unpacked EVERYTHING.
I've also done a lot of work in the studio... but it still needs heaps more sorting etc... so I have decided to give myself grace and take my time.. which means there will be no "new" BOM this year...
But first - finishing instructions for Let's Stay Home? Yes, I am working on them and hope to put up a post on Friday
This Year's BOM
Like I said there will be no "new" BOM this year, but I have decided to run the Gingerbread Viillage one again
I know that I have a lot of new followers since I put it out in 2019.. and I also know there are some who haven't finished it (ahem, like me!!!!). You know that I am the worst at finishing things... so, starting this month, I'll post a block every 3rd Wednesday of the Month.
Accuquilt
Even before I got accepted as an Accuquilt Australia Associate, I wanted to start using the dies I already have. So that is one of my "goals"... to use the dies I have - to cut up scraps, and to make quilts. I managed to find them all (amazing!) and organize them!
As part of my job with Accuquilt Australia, I'll be making a project a month, which will go on their blog on the first Wednesday of the month, but I am also thinking of hosting either a block of the month, or a sew-a-long... I'll keep you posted!
Lori Holt Sewalongs
It was my birthday last week and I treated myself to the Chicken Salad Sewalong Kit (affiliate link) so that I could join in on Lori's sewalong! I've wanted to join in on her sewalongs for a while now, but never got a chance. Since this one is with chickens, I had to!! I love chooks and can't wait to get some real ones again....
The kit is being shipped today.... and hopefully it will be here in time for the sewalong start on the 14th!
I wonder, is anyone else joining in?
Spring Clean Your UFOs Challenge
It's been a while since I last sorted through my UFOs and ran this challenge.. in fact, it was in April 2019... hmm... there seems to be a theme here... last time my life was organized...?! I think all of us who did the challenge had fun, but I'm sure we have all created a few more UFOs since then.
I'll be starting this UFO Spring Cleaning Challenge on the 20th of March. Like last time I'll be running it in our Facebook group, but for those who are not on FB I will try to set it up properly as a mini email course this time.
Stay tuned for more on that!
Other Plans
Of course I am planning out Christmas in July, joining in on as many blogs hops as I can, and running some impromptu QALS and SALS... but those plans above are the main ones that you might be interested in joining me with this year.
The Spy Commander posted: " Adapted from a 2016 post. The first day of filming on Dr. No had a bad omen. Principal photography began Jan. 16, 1962 at the Kingston, Jamaica, airport. Jack Lord, playing CIA agent Felix Leiter, had been scheduled to arrive Jan. 14 and report for wo"
Jack Lord, Ursula Andress and Sean Connery relaxing on the Dr. No set
Adapted from a 2016 post.
The first day of filming on Dr. No had a bad omen.
Principal photography began Jan. 16, 1962 at the Kingston, Jamaica, airport. Jack Lord, playing CIA agent Felix Leiter, had been scheduled to arrive Jan. 14 and report for work at 8:30 a.m., Jan. 16.
Because of travel complications, Lord couldn't get to Kingston until 12:20 p.m. on Jan. 16 and didn't arrive on the set until 2:45 p.m. Sean Connery, playing Bond, and John Kitzmiller, playing Quarrel, had arrived at 8:30 a.m.
"Because of the sun angle, we lost his first shots," production manager L.C. Rudkin wrote on a unit progress report on Jan. 16, referring to Lord. The Dr. No crew would have to return to the airport the following day, putting the production of the first James Bond film one-half day behind schedule on its very first day.
That report is one of the various documents in the 2011 book A Bond for Bond, describing the travails of Dr. No's production. The book, by Charles Drazin, focuses on the contributions of Film Finances Inc., the company that provided the "completion bond," ensuring the movie would be finished.
Nor was that the only delay the Dr. No unit would see.
Day 4: "Bad light and generator breakdown," according to a summary of location shooting after principal photography concluded. "Nearly day lost yet we shot -" Day 6: "Rough seas made abandonment necessary. Had to move over to location 15 miles." Day 17: "Rough seas and two locations with retakes." Day 20: "Rained nearly all day - shot in rain." Day 24: "Whole beach had to be rebuilt because of hurricane in night, yet we shot." Day 25: The "dragon" broke down and a safety winch also broke down, causing another half-day delay.
By the end of location shooting, according to this summary, 10 to 12 days of work had been lost and two sequences ("Interior Hotel Foyer" and the interior of Playdell-Smith's office) would have to be filmed when the production moved to Pinewood Studios in England.
The report also contained this passage: "It is questionable if any other major film, with a similar budget, had ever accomplished the feat of shooting on 22 major different sets in 23 days. This practically Television or 'B' picture scheduling, but on this film it was necessary, and had to be done."
Trouble was also brewing at Pinewood. Production designer Ken Adam had written a letter to Film Finances that the budget for sets was adequate. It wasn't.
In a Feb. 1, 1962, letter to co-producer Harry Saltzman, and cc'd to his partner Albert R. Broccoli, Adam said set construction, props and set dressing would be more than budgeted. "This is merely a note to make quite certain you have realised this," Adam wrote Saltzman.
On Feb. 18, Saltzman wrote Film Finances executive Robert Garrett to reassure him about cost overruns -- which were exceeding the financing for contingencies that Garrett's company had provided.
"I must say that (director) Terence Young has behaved tremendously well, despite all our misgivings and I honestly must say that none of the hold-ups have been due to his proclivity from procrastination," Saltzman wrote. At the same time, the producer wrote that Young still has a "grande seigneur" lifestyle. "He has spent money personally like water."
Saltzman added, "In spite of all the ulcer-making frustrating situations and the invasion of a good part of our contingency fund, the stuff we have shot here is tremendously impressive and I think well worth our troubles."
Garrett wasn't reassured. In a March 16, 1962 letter to Saltzman, the executive outlined budget overruns for publicity, music, studio rentals, insurance and other expenses and said it appeared the pace of production had slowed during filming at Pinewood.
"I must ask you and Cubby to take all possible measures of economy and above all, to see that the schedule position does not deteriorate further," Garrett wrote. "From the progress to date in the studio we had the impression Terence Young has lost his earlier sense of urgency."
According to author Draznin, Dr. No had exceeded its budget by 57,027 pounds (almost $160,000) for the week ending March 23, 1962. Principal photography finally ended April 3. By that time, Film Finances took an action it normally considered a last resort.
Thanks to Gary J. Firuta for loaning the blog his copy of A Bond for Bond.
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The devastated father of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst who jumped to her death from a Manhattan high-rise, has broken his silence. Kryst, 30, was found on the sidewalk next to her luxury apartment building The Orion in Hell's Kitchen at 7:15am on Sunday January 30. She was last seen on a 29th-floor terrace […]
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