I got another trinket bowl made, using up the last of the blue ark fabric and what was left of the pinks. But that raindrop fabric - it will go into many more bowls, it looks like. That strip you see is four double layers that will take 3 swipes of the rotary cutter across its width. Many more long lengths for wrapping around clothesline. I'm not as happy with this one as the others, not liking my decision to just go as far as I could with the first inner pink which made that second round short, and wishing I'd had some blue, even if a different fabric, as accent around the top to balance the blue in the center.
And we got our first snow over the weekend - only a few inches that quickly melted off even the lawns, but more is due in tonight and tomorrow. Oddly enough, my deck garden doesn't seem to mind. Small excitement on the home front: a new refrigerator got delivered today. The old one was starting to make some disturbing clunks when the condenser shut down. As a renter, appliances are included so getting a new one doesn't cost me a thing. Ditto with new sets of blinds for the upstairs bedrooms. Those bedrooms facing west get the afternoon sun and the plastic clips holding the vertical blinds in place started snapping from deterioration. Now I have working blinds again and really appreciate having a great maintenance man to install them. In the meantime, I've noticed that the new refrigerator sounds slightly different when running, causing me to cock my head to figure out what that sound is. Shouldn't take long to get used to it though.
4 comments:
That little bowl is sweet.
I actually had to take a second look at the bowl to see the inner pink issue you talked about! You're fortunate to have a landlord who is willing to replace damaged furnishings & appliances without a hassle! Topped only by having a competent maintenance person! Your deck plants lasted longer than ours'. Jan in WY
Thanks! I don't often work in pink but it does seem to make most anything look sweet. :-)
Jan, that makes me feel better that it wasn't as obvious to you as it was to me - isn't that usually the case? Yeah, I do know I am lucky to have a decent landlord (actually a rental management company based in CA with rentals all over but we have a very good onsite manager now) and competent maintenance man with a great sense of humor. Believe it or not, even with temps consistently in the 30's, those deck plants are still blooming and hardy even after one night of having some snow blown over them!
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