morning all.

i'm having this intense decor-related conflict (eye roll).

it goes like this: edit or accumulate, edit or accumulate and also color or black and white, color or black and white.  and then this is followed by another internal dialogue which is "don't be shallow, but i can't help it"...or this torturous iteration: "why can't you put your energy toward world hunger, global warming, fill in any large scale unstable worldwide condition of your choice and repeat".  

i can't believe i am typing this stuff.  i rarely plan what i'm going to write here until the "new post" window pops up and then she-bang i blab on about whatever is currently knocking round my brain.

last night i sewed this old cotton fabric i scrounged up and dyed into curtains for the kitchen counter.  i also dyed a rag rug runner a friend wove for me years ago.  this morning i turned another fraying rag rug into a chair pad.  the color and the added stuff feels too much all together and i immediately want to edit again.  

meaning or meaningless?

all this doesn't feel like learned behavior.  it is the very same process i go through when i am drawing or painting or making most anything.  i have driven certain people crazy changing paint colors and moving furniture etc. etc. and have made my own poor self crazy with the process of creating and tearing down.

and i want to explain that it's not a choice.  do you know what i mean?

i leave you with this incomplete notion.  if you have any thoughts- rhapsodize or rant.  

morning!

i'm in a fact-defying good mood today. 

mainly because my car totally crapped out and needs a new transmission.  so i will be in the market for an old used one this week.  i'm thinking i'd like an old boxy volvo sedan except i should really get a 4 wheel drive and probably something with as good gas mileage as i can find.  i should be stressed about this.  but somehow...not.

and part of the reason is i really like monday mornings.  i know.  are you shooting poison daggers at me through the computer screen right now?  thing is, i really like my job. really. like. it.  i look forward to a fresh week and to working in my studio.  a fact's a fact.  and i try not to lie to you here at ze blog enhabiten.

so, the lo down is i got a couple new little pouches in my shop this morn.  and maybe some more later today after i make and package up some orders.  one is an inside out pouch.  i miss me some inside out.  i truly plan on having some more inside out pillows and pouches in the shop real soon.  they are a personal favorite.

and i also wanted to share a picture up there of a little mushroom family i won over at the oak leaves blog recently.  kee-ute!  thanks chrisi.

and most lastly, i made up a recipe yesterday.  it's called "girl scout cookie thin mint cake".  crazy.  and flipping good.  i just ate some for breakfast.  what??  you only live once.  i think.

xx liane