Birthday Stash

Jan took the day off yesterday and we went downtown to Queen Street. It's always a treat to go there. I wasn't looking for fabrics this time, as I have more than enough, but I did pop into one of my favourite stores just to have a quick look. It's like going into an art store with all those beautiful new supplies all laid out in rows of colour, just begging to be used. Some fabric stores have the same effect - all those neat rows of bolts, and rolls of the most amazing fabrics; beaded and embroidered, some costing several hundred dollars per yard. I'd never buy any, because it would make any doll costumes WAY too expensive, and most people already can't get over the price of even the simplest doll clothes. So I ever so carefully touch some of it, taking in the beauty - it's just so inspirational to look at. I had made a list of things I wanted to look for....

I needed some small flowers from Sussman's Bridal, and then spotted some neat metallic trim that would probably make great "mail" for fantasy figures, so got half a yard of that too. Next stop was Arton Beads where I picked up some metallic beads, and the last package of some very nice little square studs - have to buy them whenever I see any, since nice studs are so difficult to find these days. Then a few blocks west to Mokuba for some silk ribbons in colours I'd used up.

When we got home I was waiting for it to cloud over so we could go take a few more photos in the scilla orchard, but as soon as the last sun disappeared, the wind picked up and it started to spit. Wind from the west meant  hair would blow into everyone's faces, and raindrops blowing right onto my camera lens. Plus it looked like someone had picked clean most of the little flowers from my usual photography spot. So we went back home. Now I'm hoping for either early this evening, or early tomorrow morning, and I'll need to clear a new area of all the dead dog-strangling vines in order to get a new "sea of blue".