I mean that in terms of "expansive" since I've got quite a lot to post. The last six months have been full of tectonic lurching and watchful, quiet resting at the bottom of a pond in weedy disarray. In between, if I had any mental ease and physical capacity, I worked on craft projects, but never had the extra energy to talk about them. Or rather type about them. But it's a new year and I'm feeling pretty good about my decisions. And I mean that in terms of home decorating decisions. I finally finished an Amy Butler zinnia pillow and some woodland drapes for privacy from my next door urban homesteaders' chickens. And I have a very fancy hat!
One night I experienced an odd phenomenon. The wall across from my bed had a glowing crack down it. It looked like entry to a parallel universe. It was the plastic poster frame capturing outside light through the window on the perpendicular wall - from the long vertical angle between the window and my newly made curtain. I marveled at the moment for a while; brain-trickery is so pleasurable and wonder is such a rare treat.
Turns out it happens on Saturday mid-mornings as well: The full poster, the curtain close-up, and what the poster was reflecting from its right-angle companion.
So faux is my forest. I like it. Incidentally, as I was working on my fancy hat, I was sitting in the chair beneath that reflective centennial "L" train poster. I thought, "that hat looks familiar."
Hmmm.
Gotta love winter in Oregon. Yes, it is the hat on the cover of Boutique Knits. The designer, Laura Irwin, is from Portland and sells her handmade items at pricey shops and a swank millinery behind the Broadway wine bar. And yes, unimaginatively, it is made in the same exact yarn - some kind of Rowan sparkly stuff. Again, I like. I'll post that damn zinnia later.
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