I’ve been not feeling very peak for a long time now. After a particularly heavy start to this month’s period, I finally went and looked up symptoms of anemia and found that I’m symptom-ridden.  Fatigued, can’t concentrate, insomnia, sore eyes, curved & brittle nails, low body temperature, breathlessness and headaches with activity, etc, etc.
This [...]

So here is the silk. I might actually have had too much light when I tried to photograph it, but you can at least see that it’s a nice off-white. The colour is actually what I would call a warm taupe. It’s like what most people call champagne, but darker and with a tiny hint [...]

My aunt tells me I need to post pictures of this silk. I will try to do that this afternoon - though my camera has a way of making everything look too red and the colour is pretty subtle, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to capture it. If I can, I think [...]

I ordered some undyed silk charmeuse two weeks ago so I could dye it and sew my own wedding dress. I had been hoping it would get here last week so that I could spend this week sewing it (since I’ve had some time off this week), but it didn’t arrive until today.

No matter. The silk is now dyed and laid out across some chairs in front of the fire drying. It’s goooooorgeous.

Was it last January that I made that new year’s resolution to be more at peace with the creative clutter in my life? I think it worked. Dudes, I am seriously content. Well, for me, anyhow.