Channeling Van Gogh

We received some beautiful and very unusual sunflowers at the Book Depot this past week and I asked if I could bring a few home.  I cut the stems fairly short and mounted the blossoms onto this flat vase - don't you just love the colors - I wish I could capture how incredible they are but I'm trying

Lots of activities right now and keeping busy - hope you have a creative day!

this moment - this week - inspirations

this past week I have been so inspired by jude hill's blog http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/ - she was talking about colors and how they lean into each other - her musings lean into my current knitting project - another Margaret Dashwood shawl from the Summer 2012 issue of Jane Austen Knits. For this current one, I am knitting with Aslantrends Santa Fe yarn in a color named Grape Jam but honestly it is so much more - the colors are grape, olive, navy, tan, and mixes of these and more as the colors merge and divide and as jude writes, "lean" into each other. I have tried to show how incredible this looks in the photos but to see them in the natural sunlight through the window, they just take your breath away.  Here's a link to my first Margaret Dashwood shawl on Ravelry - I just love how you can tie this shawl around your shoulders and chest, and then do things without having to worry about the shawl coming loose.  It's a fabulous pattern with easy lace.
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Vintage cats

I guess we aren't the only generation who enjoys cute cats.

Hope these brighten your day!

The foolishness of things

"Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things."

from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo

Welcome to my home

this is the cabinet that you see as you enter my house -

on it an ever changing display of "the foolishness of things."

a vintage celadon vase, a Venetian mask, incense, books, some strands of beads,

and two hearts covered with vintage buttons and shells -

"There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe."

- Fanny Fern

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