Recipient for The Thing of Beauty (TM)
Mar. 25th, 2022 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartRemember the unfinished baby book I christened The Thing of Beauty? If not, you can take a look at the already existing parts here.
In any case, it has a destiny now. My dear friend and ex-colleague Ilonka called today to tell me that one of her twin daughters is expecting a baby. Said twin daughters were in my class for years, and I'm very happy for the one expecting. So, the Thing of Beauty (TM) is going to Ilonka, as soon as it's finished. Fortunately, I still have about six month to complete it, but - considering that I'm working on two quiet books at the same time - it isn't as much time as it seems to be. I was briefly playing with the thought to start a third quiet book, for Elise's youngest granddaughter, but that will have to wait. At least the baby book is partially done already.
Other than that, we had a visit from the chiropodist lady, I cooked lunch and talked on the phone to my friend Evie. The seal pages of the quiet books are making progress: I've finished the page bases, sewn on the yellows stripes representing the sand in the circus arena and the bunting, as well as the dais (daises?) on which the seals are supposed to sit. Eventually. I've also made the 8 balls (4-4 for each seal), which included making buttonholes - not as painful as sewing Velcro but almost as boring.
In any case, it has a destiny now. My dear friend and ex-colleague Ilonka called today to tell me that one of her twin daughters is expecting a baby. Said twin daughters were in my class for years, and I'm very happy for the one expecting. So, the Thing of Beauty (TM) is going to Ilonka, as soon as it's finished. Fortunately, I still have about six month to complete it, but - considering that I'm working on two quiet books at the same time - it isn't as much time as it seems to be. I was briefly playing with the thought to start a third quiet book, for Elise's youngest granddaughter, but that will have to wait. At least the baby book is partially done already.
Other than that, we had a visit from the chiropodist lady, I cooked lunch and talked on the phone to my friend Evie. The seal pages of the quiet books are making progress: I've finished the page bases, sewn on the yellows stripes representing the sand in the circus arena and the bunting, as well as the dais (daises?) on which the seals are supposed to sit. Eventually. I've also made the 8 balls (4-4 for each seal), which included making buttonholes - not as painful as sewing Velcro but almost as boring.
