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Look at this shell sink! I like that.
On a related note, I have a new entry in my Ugly Shoes Compendium. They're a bit special, these ones. (The woman reading, she's sitting the wrong way, isn't she? You'd lean back on the insole, wouldn't you?)
Yesterday my mother and I had our annual trip to Melbourne. Well, my mother had her annual trip to Melbourne. It was my once-every-few-weeks trip, because somehow my job has turned into one that involves going to meetings in Melbourne on a regular basis. I'm not sure how that happened, and I'm not sure I like it. But that's beside the point. The point is, we went to Melbourne, starting at the craft and quilt fair. I bought a pair of tiny scissors, seen here with a paperclip for scale:
My mother went to a workshop about paper piecing. I don't know what she learnt, but she certainly coveted all the tools the woman had. Little LED lamps that you can clip to your lapel; she found them at the fair. Little plastic clips for holding the fabric together; later in the day we passed a branch of Officeworks, so she went in to look for them. We found the very clips in a big bin. It was one of a number of bins, each filled with a different thing – erasers, mini-highlighters, elastic bands – and you could fill a plastic container with any of them, all for five dollars. Like mixed lollies, but with stationery! That was the highlight of the day.
Amongst the mixed stationery haul were some animal-shaped elastic bands. One of each animal is shown below:
Obviously, the white one is a duck and the pink one is a moose. Slightly less obviously, the centre blue one is an elephant, the purple one is a misshapen giraffe and the green one is a... cow? But what do we think the bottom blue one is?
Walking down the street, we past a goose on the footpath, head tucked under its wing, fast asleep. In the middle of the city, and people were just walking around it. So that was nice.
On a related note, I have a new entry in my Ugly Shoes Compendium. They're a bit special, these ones. (The woman reading, she's sitting the wrong way, isn't she? You'd lean back on the insole, wouldn't you?)
Yesterday my mother and I had our annual trip to Melbourne. Well, my mother had her annual trip to Melbourne. It was my once-every-few-weeks trip, because somehow my job has turned into one that involves going to meetings in Melbourne on a regular basis. I'm not sure how that happened, and I'm not sure I like it. But that's beside the point. The point is, we went to Melbourne, starting at the craft and quilt fair. I bought a pair of tiny scissors, seen here with a paperclip for scale:
My mother went to a workshop about paper piecing. I don't know what she learnt, but she certainly coveted all the tools the woman had. Little LED lamps that you can clip to your lapel; she found them at the fair. Little plastic clips for holding the fabric together; later in the day we passed a branch of Officeworks, so she went in to look for them. We found the very clips in a big bin. It was one of a number of bins, each filled with a different thing – erasers, mini-highlighters, elastic bands – and you could fill a plastic container with any of them, all for five dollars. Like mixed lollies, but with stationery! That was the highlight of the day.
Amongst the mixed stationery haul were some animal-shaped elastic bands. One of each animal is shown below:
Obviously, the white one is a duck and the pink one is a moose. Slightly less obviously, the centre blue one is an elephant, the purple one is a misshapen giraffe and the green one is a... cow? But what do we think the bottom blue one is?
Walking down the street, we past a goose on the footpath, head tucked under its wing, fast asleep. In the middle of the city, and people were just walking around it. So that was nice.