Travels at Home

As I have discovered since returning from SE Asia, travels can take many forms. I am traveling through all sorts of new arenas...retirement, although I don't think I am really retired or ever will be since I didn't really have a job career...aging, my own and most pertinently, my mother's...creativity, and that is a huge journey that keeps unfolding in great massive swathes of cloth and wire. I now have two nice cigar boxes with glass lids that I had made up almost a year ago. I love their shapes and the fact that the glass slides so tidily on and off. I also found some wonderful "hopsack" linen/rayon that makes my heart beat fast, especially when I think of cutting it from the new pattern I made of the Khamu jacket from Laos. I also found lovely cotton sateen at a local quilt store. The colors fill my head with rainbows of linings...the linings are the best part of a subtle ethnic jacket since we in the northwest like to hide our sunshine. And I have discovered a whole new dimension in wire wrapping that has driven me to rip apart old earrings and whip up new ones, lighter, better, more outrageous...and I don't even care if anybody sees them! Hurrah for time on my hands!