Rust Homebuilding Pile

Flew up to Philadelphia Friday evening and met Deanna at the baggage claim as we planned. We cabbed over to Meg's and immediately left for dinner as Tonny was sitting at the restaurant already. It ended up we had to run most of the way with our wine bottles clanking together but finally got there. Dinner was great, a really nice little restaurant and good old School House Ranch wine hand delivered from CA. And a special announcement from a special friend...oy! We got back to Meg's for talk until we finally collapsed- the last one standing being Deanna who got up at 4 that morning. What stamina!

So, I was up at 5 the next morning, washed and dressed and ready to roll but had to sit tight and wait for the sun to rise. Loved Meg's espresso maker and the croissants for breakfast, but we didn't linger and hit the street to get to the convention center when it opened.

The Philadelphia Craft Show- what a great show! I made a bee line for Randy Darwell and even though he had been wiped out the day before, I found a few 'experimental' dyed pieces. AND he gave me one of them for $25! Bless his little heart. The Randy scarves are a huge sheer wool shawl of discharged black (blues, greys), a silk piece with rows of silk ribbons sewn onto the surface and then dyed in blues and greens, and the third one is wool-and-something else woven in a grid pattern and shrunk so it's kinds seer-sucker, also black discharged but this one went to rusts. I didn't get any of his woven pieces this time because they all were too heavy for my winters down here- I already have 'a few' of those and can't use more- the three I bought are all OK for cool nights here or in-between times at home.

Meg and Tonny also had some luck with Randy's scarves and left their credit card imprints in several other places too. Also scored a fabulous bead thing- woven into an actual square to wear on a neck wire. And one of the woven leather bags made by a woman in Jamaica Plain. All in all, this trip has cost a pretty penny.

We went across the street to the market for lunch, and not a moment too soon, I was about to fall on my face with no protein in me, but soon got that problem fixed, took a breath and headed back in.