Rambling

 Crafting! I haven't done much painting lately. I have a tiger 8x8 acrylic in green started. I am finishing up a picture of ...surprisingly tea cups, tea pots...:) I am nearly done with that one its a watercolor with some inking. Other than that I Just finished a third little sculpie owl.These first few I am going to give away with paintings I sell on Etsy.  I just got some more sculpie today so  I can work on some more:) I have a few hair clip ideas I've been working with . Mainly due to how much I use the little wooden clips I made for my wedding and I just love how cute little pins look. But the prices in the stores are so high!! I was shocked to see how expensive little hair clips were and hair clips from anthropology..ha.. I'd hate myself if I spent that much on a hair pin. So I have a bunch of new pins and clips I'm making. I'm testing one of each design first to make sure it's a good design.

Also, my tea towels should be up for sale soon. I was conflicted about painting on them so I was looking up dyes and paints that are nontoxic. I found lots of cool dyes to try to make but they are all for a whole piece of fabric not a select area. Which is fine for now I'm going to use the gobs of ribbon scraps I have stored over the years.  I really like the final designs I have, it's just taking me time to get the stitches nice and neat. Practice, practice, practice:)

So I found a tea shop today. I really like it. But...it's a chain not an independent:( Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. I had a delicious black tea with a toasted  bagel. The staff was awesome, the atmosphere was chill with an easy to get to patio  with lots lot tables. I, as usual, made like a wall flower, but in a coffee/ tea shop I'd really rather be able to read/ journal with out anyone deciding to pick a conversation with me. Yes, pick a conversation like a scab. I've been going to the laundry mat until we have a washer/ dryer and normally it's fine. But some lady came in the other day and was picking for a conversation or a fight. All up in my personal space, so old she could hardly stand up straight, I wondered how she got her laundry in normally I go get the door for people struggling but I don't remember her coming in. She was just there...,"So are you voting for Rick Perry..huh..huh?"  I hate getting pulled into conversation traps when it's obvious they will go for a while. So I muttered something about being new to the state. Ugh, "Why don't you know who you are going to vote for! You should know..blah...blah...blah" It kept going and to make sure I was hostage, or so she thought she took the washer next to mine which I was getting ready to put the rest of my stuff into...talking the whole time. So evasive action was needed. I faked needing more quarters and stayed over by the change machine and TV until she had another talker engaged in conversation. Then I stealthed my way over wheeled my remaining  laundry to a machine further away. After I starting the remaining load I stayed far way from the talker like a kicked puppy. Sigh...it's not that I'm shy, I mean I can be but not like when I was younger, it just how the talker acts or how aggressive they are....anyways I'm rambling.

So... all this story to say how critical a chill space is to me. Oh but one  sad thing about the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf is the tea for sale is not what I really would prefer is a tea: loose, fair trade, organic, delicious and unique. It was all their brand tea which was good but Kalesia is better.

Oh in other random news snail mail maybe endangered:( The USPS  is requesting to revamp their whole business structure  reduce the amount of employees they have. Over all I hope it's not so. I love sending and receiving snail mail.  It is a meditative act to write out a letter. Anyways. It's ridiculously late working nights for so many years I can stay up without even thinking about it, but I will feel it in the morning  it I don't call it quits.