descendent cozen muslin

The rule is to carry as little as possible .  Thoreau

Oops, guess I didn't get that memo in time.  I think it was Jack Kerouac who said if you own a rug you've got too much.  I've got too much...

Well, while we are speaking of the studio, I was able to get a few things done yesterday- but have to go back asap to do a major printing job so my 'book' has some words (what an innovation-  books with WORDS!)  A new thing for this former art student who only had books with pictures... 

Also I am still procrastinating on the entries I have lined up to send, I really must get at that task today.  What I really need is an assistant to take over these darn paperwork tasks while I continue to navel-gaze and look for amazing stuff on the inter webs.  So, my day is pretty much set up, not bad since it's raining and it's great to be in the studio and hear the rain on the tin roof as long as it isn't a storm.

Catching up on Unfinished Bizniz~  Here is the covered bridge leading to the Textile Center up at FIT in Melbourne~ forgot to post it yesterday.  There is also a botanical garden there and this leads over and through 'natural Florida vegetation'.  Not something I would want to navigate wearing moccasins even if I was armed-and-dangerous.

And I know you don't care about my  dinners from a week ago, but the final course of our fab dinner at DeKas finally appeared in my photo stream.  It was 'Patagonian Tooth Fish', aka Sea Bass, wrapped in procuitto and served with lentils and purslane* (the little umbrella leaves).  Delish.

* this is what the chef called it but it isn't the same thing when I looked it up.  If you know this little leaf, please let me know what it is in English, I am thinking his Dutch accent got in the way.

And I am still waiting for my two yarn orders, one comes with a pattern which I am sure to screw up.  Maybe today? 

 Teeny Tiny crochet by Su Ami, the first five focus on, what else, SQUIRRELS.  Surprise.

But look at this amazing wee goat~

And kissing swans~

 And a hippo as big as a kidney bean~

(These were taken by Carla Brandon-Solent who just happened to be there at the right time!)

Help! A baby squirrel (right) clings for its life from a thin branch after falling from a woodpecker's nest it had been sleeping in 20ft above. 

 With the rescue operation at its make-or-break point, she grabbed hold of her baby's tail and, with a bit of luck, managed to haul her down to safety.

And away they go to a new tree.  Good mama.