We Now Pause for Some Non-Knitting-Related Content

My best friend (of thirty. two. years. OhgawdIamold) helped me to remedy my deplorable lack of spring business casualwear yesterday by frogmarching me into a national chain of womenswear stores and refusing to let me try on anything brown. We had great success (so much success that she actually let me buy a pair of embroidered jeans as a reward for being girly enough to purchase not one, but two SKIRTS. I have never before felt so much like a woman on "What Not to Wear." The only things missing were British accents and someone else's charge card).

As if that wasn't girly enough, we went straight from shopping to... Pottery Painting. My friend Yvonne (she of the delight in the swift and ball-winder), who I am finding is a force to be reckoned with in the organization department, got a bunch of women together and reserved a table at a local paint-your-own joint. Being the right kind of terribly-organized woman, there was also beer, wine, cosmos in thermos flasks, and one enterprising gal who painted a giant martini glass:

Maria did a beautifully precise, stylized ladybug on a platter.

No, you can't see the design in this photo. But you can see the look of intense concentration.

I did a little square box, using a stencil that had a vaguely Wm. Morris-style design (shut up. I know I'm predictable). If it doesn't look like boiled ass when I pick it up, maybe I'll photograph it as well.

Posted: Sunday - May 28, 2006 at 08:20 AM | |