Commedia d'el Arte and Real lives

Went up with a friend on Friday night to USM to the Russell Theater to see A Servant of Two Masters - with Truffaldino and all the characters. The costumes were all themed for recycling, with mops and strippy black plastic trash bags for wigs, a carboretor filter for a ruff, bubblewrap for outer skirt and bow trims, curly ribbon for hair, candy wrappers sewed on as an edge trim on a skirt, and on and on.

The ensemble was really working together. The whole thing was so well done, and very funny. What a great time, and pretty instructive too. Now I can see the roots of Lucille Ball, Robin Williams, Gene Wilder, vaudeville too. My companion was knowledgeable and very generous with information. Had a great time.

The rest of the weekend was so much fun. A pre-Thanksgiving party. The Scotch swap was things from our own houses we would put in a yard sale - to be wrapped in a paper grocery sack. It was MUCH more fun that boughtn stuff.

Then a shower for a great niece. Full of charm and laughs and loveliness - a girl is coming. My own DDIL is "so done" She's due in 12 days with my very first grandchild. Her skin is luminescent. My son is going to make a great dad.

Tues. Nov. 14, 2006

- Shopping for fiber

I went North today to the wilderness of Biddeford, Maine where they are just about finished installing Biddeford Complex, a huge complex of all the usual shops, Linens and things, Chili's, Appleby's, Target. Why travel anymore. WalMart is there too, oh, excuse me, a WalMart Superstore.

Anyone out there remember the Gum Department store in pre-Perestroika Moscow. It was practically the only place to shop and all us Westerners pitied the poor Russians with so few choices. Who knows? I was forced to go there. WalMart, not Moscow, because I had looked at three other stores for GooBeGone to try to get burnt on fabric starch off my expensive iron. I'm ready to get out the sandpaper, the GooBeGone is not working.

Kian's almost quilt

Here's 100 blocks up on my design board. They are quarter triangle squares, that means 400 pieces. If I weren't using stitch and cut methods, I'd be off to Chatahootchie. I still have the joining all the blocks, outside bands, name on the quilt, backing, batting and binding, etc. It's all coming along. I just love the crayon colors.

I have to giddyup, Ian and Janine's first baby and my very first grandchild is due in the beginning of December.

sewing and quilting

Then I was sewing, now I am quilting. See what anticipation of becoming a grandmother can do. I like the idea of a grandmother running Congress. What a concept. Grandmothers, wisewomen, crones. The time has come.