Apr 17
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

I was inspired to make loose coins by these pictures on Flickr. Then I wanted to be able to admire the backs, especially since I forgot I had red metallic in the bobbin til I was trimming the threads on the first one and it looked great. When we were sorting pennies yesterday I was reminded of my penny collection from my youth – little holes to push the pennies into that let you see both the obverse and reverse of the coin. I needed pouches though, little pockets from tea bags.

Go check out Jude’s pink minis here. I’ll wait.

In other news, the closet in Al’s and my room is no more. J (who studied English and always wanted to be deconstructionist) came and helped me get started taking things apart, then finished the whacking part because my head was ringing. I carried stuff down the hall and threw it out the second story window (that is the chorus to a song. J SINGS when she’s whacking stuff – it is great. AND she can sing on key. Did I say she was great? She’s great. Really. ) This was all preparatory to installing the Ikea closet combo, only now we have more room and can rearrange some of the pieces better so I get to swap one big one for two little ones and do different shelvy things, and you’re so done reading about this I can tell.

Now we have a dumpster because I didn’t think I could hide that much stuff in the trash and because I dreamed all this rain made the cellar flood and we had to throw everything in it away. Once I got past some (very minor) sorrow I was kind of relieved to ditch it all. I was almost bummed when I woke to find the cellar had not (yet, anyway – there’s still more rain) flooded and I was not required to throw anything out (yet. Did I say yet? I am having no great faith in this weather).

So we can throw a lot of stuff out, even if the cellar doesn’t flood. That’ll be fun.  Maybe J and I will take out another wall.