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lyricalNow Playing: Old late sixties hippy music...
Topic: No Topic Today!
Good Monday Morning. It's raining and it has turned quite cool. The summer was nice while it lasted but now it's time for more seasonable weather.
My back porch is beginning to look and smell like a greenhouse. I planted my marigold seeds on Thursday and by saturday morning they had all sprouted. On Saturday I planted about a hundred and fifty other seeds of various types, including amaranthus, celosia, celosia "cockscomb", coleus, portulaca(sp?) ina addition to the 100 marigolds now sprouting. Out in the veggie garden I planted seeds for snow peas, beets, carrots, radishes, mesclun greens, and some buttercrunch lettuce. My spring onions are all coming close to harvest-ready and I have a few nice bunches of sorrel (wild spinach) ready to go. My tulips buds have exploded into large flowers. There are lilies shoots poking out of the ground. One month ago it looked like winter might never end and the snow piles would last until june. Now, there are only a few muddy remnants of mountains left in the mall parking lot. Gardening has taken up a bit of my time these past few days, I love having a large inner city property, but the spring clean up can be quite daunting a task.
I will have room for chickens, however. Don't laugh, the city is considering a bylaw to allow city dwellers with large enough properties to raise a few egg hens provided they are in a proper chicken coop with a proper fence. This neighborhood is full of garden sheds that were converted from old chicken coops, so there were chickens here long ago. I think it would be cool to have a chicken coop and whenever I need eggs for breakfast I just go out, reach under some old hen's butt and voilà! one very fresh egg.
Dan starts his new job today. He was quite high strung yesterday! We went to The Bay to buy a new work wardrobe and after we went through his closet and got rid of some of his old clothes. His rugby style shirts that he wore in high school have been given the heave ho, some t's that are favourites but far too small are now gone, anything with a boy's size tag and not a men's size tag is gone, and a few things are being re-styled by his fashion and style guru. Me. I'm taking some long sleeve shirts with ripped cuffs and turning them into short sleeve shirts. He has a good Business casual wardrobe now.
I have a fashion complaint. Most of what's in stores as far as clothes is okay, aside from too skinny jeans and the fad of wearing so many horizontal lines. Anyone who complains about high waisted tops has simply not tried them on to see how good they really look. My complaint involves shoes, specifically the ones that are available in most mall stores this spring. We seemingly have only two choices. Supper high stiletto hooker shoes, or absolutely flat no heel kiddie shoes. Even last years wedge espadrille is this year sporting a seven inch hooker platform wedge. We seemingly have two choices, bunions or shin splints. All I want is nice two inch wedges or kitten heel shoes. One happy note, there seems to be no more platform heel and sole flip flops! I know what I want, a nice kitten or wedge heel sandal. leather, in either a white or multi colour pink, turquoise, purple, that kind of idea with a bit of metallic detailing. That would be fashionable, stylish, and go with plenty of things in my wardrobe. I can find that idea either totally flat or with a seven inch heel and integrated platform interpretation.
Things went far better in the fabric store. I got the one fabric I wanted, some chocolate brown 8 oz twill for a nice pair of pants (or a nice skirt) and I got some retro-inspired print jersey and some nice pastel Pucci inspired stretch silk satin. Yes, you read that correct, stretch silk satin. Wow! i want to make a halter style tunic with it or something that will take advantage of both the stretch and the gorgeous drape. The knit is going to be a top similar to the other retro print one, with the high waist, a bit of drapery over an underbodice...I'll have to draw a picture!
Finally, I went the the world's greatest bead store, Bead Bazaar and got more of those wonderful little moonstone butterflies. I'm going to combine them with some clear AB crystals and a few pink crystals and some silver wires to make a net of butterflies and sparkles. they are also having a bracelet contest and I think I will enter it. Bracelets are NOT my strongest designs, so this will be a challenge! There's a ten dollar spending limit, which will also be a challenge. I have a couple ideas, both are concepts I've explored before, but I will need to vary them to fit into the constraints of the challenge. It should be fun. And different!
What else? Not much. I think this whole month has been spent with one of us or the other of us trying to shake off some type of virus. I think we are all better now, at least I hope we are all better!
And that's all for today. I'll scan the sketches for the top i want to make and maybe for the pants, too. i should also scan a couple sketches for what I'm looking for in shoes! Later!
