Cafe Flowers (or My Water Cooler)

Today is my two year anniversary of keeping the cafe flowers . Two years ago I sat and sipped coffee beside one of these enormous cement pots. A dead gardenia bush stuck from it’s center while an array of cigarettes and detritus floated about it. It was appalling.

I went inside at the urging of a waitress I knew and [...]

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Water

Sigh. . . today has truly been a Monday, in all exasperating senses of the word. I am so unbelievably grateful I have Tuesdays off, that the night has come, the day is over, the curtains are drawn and my e-mail has been closed. Mostly, all is quiet. If it were to suddenly rain and [...]

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Cloudy Joy Syndrome

My low genetic battery Monday wafted onward and is now my low energy Wed. I think I’ve hit a burn out wall. I’ve let my thoughts about “outside views” about what I’m creating–my two Etsy shops cloud my joy. Yep, folks I’ve got cloudy joy syndrome.
My freaked out examples:
1) My mother has not ONCE asked how [...]

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Felting Flop. . . oh my

I was so excited about my wool cuffs. I swirled four of them on the hot cycle–twice! With jeans! And they just aren’t snug enough. They didn’t shrink enough. They just aren’t . . . enough. Sigh. What a waste of good wool yarn. A bit pricey good wool yarn too.  Positive thought: good art [...]

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