the skirt is from the new spca thrift store that tashi and i visited yesterday. a sigrid olson with tags, it cost me $2 rather than $100+.
speaking of feet and shoes that fit them, this is a little problem we have going on by our front door:
six pair of those shoes are tashi's.
i found a few nice garments for tashi from the spca thrift, some of which were so new they went into the christmas gift stash. tashi's birthday is on jan 2, so the gift collecting begins early. i'm doing pretty good this year, collecting finds from clearance sales and the like.
i also picked up several yards of this fabric from the thrift store:
it's the bird w/ red plummage that i love the most:
i hooped a piece of it because the colors seemed like an ok choice for the yellow wall and the kitschy art work:
but i'm not so sure. the busy pattern seems to get lost in the busy-ness of it all. dan thinks my hoops are silly:
i'm trying.
a great benefit of working part time is that today was my last day in the office until monday. now i can finally begin to appreciate a wee bit of solitude while tashi is at school. time for lists and priorities. i need to set aside some writing time. some doula development time. and some craft time. it may be a little ambitious, because the hours that tashi is in school for the two remaining days of the work week don't amount to all that much.
i'm trying.
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