Hi there. I am busy creating new sweater designs and am having fun exploring different ways to work with the wool fabric. It sure is a lot of work preparing the wool to use, that is the deconstruction of the garment. I do not simply go to a fabric store and buy yards of fabric and be able to cut the number of pieces I require. That would be easy... or less labour intensive anyway. Sometimes I love a colour ( Canadian spelling remember!) but I have only a small amount to work with. I have to decide how to use a small amount in a dynamic way! It is like working on a jigsaw puzzle. It challenges my creativity and forces me to work in a certain way. Love it!
Today a friend an I visited a high end plant nursery and I walked around just staring at the various colours of green. Millions of tones and qualities of texture... heaven! I also enjoy the garden structures and supports that they now have so much of. Faux rusty cages, wire objects, towers, reflective globes to float in a pond, and fountains that are made of plastic yet look so much like stone. I really do not care for the plants strange to say, as I am cursed with the black thumb of plant death. I am sure that each plant I touched today is well on its way to hell. No matter how careful I am to not over or under water or light my greenery, they die!!!! It is very upsetting. And I want an all black garden. (Well it would be if I had to tend it.) I mean a garden with all the plants in the darkest tones of purple, red, green etc... so that there are only various shades of black . How elegant, and weird too. An anti-garden. With chrome lawn furniture and lots of mirrors and a lardge disco ball lit at night. Hey, this sounds like a 70's porn set! Damn right baby... I just dont get the French country look, all Toile and teacups and roses. Arrrghh! Unimaginative crap!. That style to me is like owning leather furniture. Hey, a little leather ( or plastic!) is a fine thing but to get a whole squooshy set of leather furniture is crushingly common. I did see some funky disturbed looking repro garden gnomes though. I guess it is about time that the gnome trash trend will be reclaimed. Now I want a pitch and putt too... with a windmill and a cat hazard! Now all I need is a yard! Again, the site is crawling to its completion!. Soooooonnnnn. Hey, if anyone reads this stuff let me know, like leave a comment. And if you do have leather furniture... sorry, I am sure it is very nice. Cheers, Michelle