After being home awhile, I made this little kitty coaster, called Cat in Recession:
Then, after I made that, I was walking in the neighborhood and saw this kitty in someone's window:
The timing of that startled me...it seemed like everything had happened backwards. That's why I'm including this last picture...the train has to back into the Denver station. I was in the last car: here is the conductor guiding the train backwards into the station, using her walkie-talkie to stay in touch with the front of the train, and making sure the switches were all going in the right direction.
I do like these trivets - especially the bee version.
ReplyDeleteI love to hear about your train trips - I adore train journeys. Have you settled back home properly yet?
Life is intersections, and paths that cross, and deciding which path to take. Gosh it has been many a year since I was on a train. Used to ride them everyday. obviously I don't get around much any more!
ReplyDeleteHi Penny...I'm not much of a traveler myself, but family is so far away...I love to see the countryside. Yes, intersections everywhere!
ReplyDeleteHi Elizabeth...pretty soon I'm going to make some more bees...they are buzzing in my mind...I keep being side-tracked! Well, I'm pretty well settled back in...getting back to schedule...there is a nice bubble, a sort of glow that I feel after a good trip and I'm trying to learn how to retain it so it becomes part of day to day reality. Not always easy!!
ReplyDeleteHi Suzanna - yes I like your trivets too. Are you needle felting wool here? Glad you had a good Christmas. Gilly
ReplyDeleteHi Gilly! Yes, it's needle-felting...I'm on a sort of roll with it, but really looking forward to Jude's next class, as I'm very intrigued by the boro methods. It's good to hear from you...
ReplyDeleteI love the bees, but the kitty is my fave. Love all your stuff.
ReplyDeleteHi Angelle...thanks!
ReplyDeletelove the trivets and the train. used to ride the train all the time when i lived in NYC. need to get out my embellisher. i saw someone embellish the lint from their dryer and i have a whole glass jar full of dryer lint. thanks for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeletesuzanna...is the Intersection trivet going to
ReplyDeletethe ShoP? if so...i'd like to have it.
i love people's trips since i do not like to
take them. 5 years, no 6 ago i drove from
here, New Mexico to Minnesota to see my
mother. i knew that was the last "visit"
i'd make. funny, i used to love to do road
trips. hmmmm.
xo
Hi Deanna...I didn't realize there was such a thing as an embellisher machine! I've gotten somewhat addicted to sitting on the couch doing it by hand...I like the sound and the sensation of the motion. Still have to test the sturdiness of it though...Glad you stopped by.
ReplyDeleteYou really have produced some amazing work lately...but I just adore that simple picture on the train. It's peaceful x
ReplyDeleteHi Grace! That makes me so happy...yes, it was going in the shop. I'll e-mail you. I used to love road trips too...the driving kind, but nowadays driving isn't as much fun as it used to be...I'd probably stay home all the time but I miss the family. The train is a wonderful sort of road trip, but it doesn't go everywhere and then it's necessary to improvise.
ReplyDeleteThank you Clare...I've decided to spend mornings working and save errands for afternoon (when possible, but I'm trying to be strict about it)...this seems to release a better sort of work energy in me...I think I see more clearly in the morning and concentrate better.
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