gurdymonkey | Sunday afternoon stuffins.

The downside of buying beautiful, beautiful fabric is the part where I have to haul five or more yards of uncut fabric across the ironing board to press it after it's been washed. Did the silk this morning. It looks even lighter and leafier under the kitchen fluorescents.

Went out with a bunch of lady friends (they know who they are!) for tea down in Fremont - scones, fancy sandwiches, pastry and so forth. Nice to see everyone and potter around some of the shops in the Niles district. In addition to an Imperial craptonne of antique shops, we found a silent film museum which runs vintage movies and had a fun little shop with silent-movie-oriented gifts. I picked up several fun flip books for the nephews and fell in love with a print of the French King Kong poster by Rene Peron. I guess he can hang in the kitchen.

EDIT: Silk is cut out. Luscious stuff. As I was pressing it this morning I was picturing leaf-green ball gowns: 1870's bustle, Regency, robe a la Francaise, that's how nice this stuff is. I don't like bustle gowns, if I'm seeing it in that style, it's that good. And it as $9.99/yard. I will definitely make the effort to hit that store again. I figure I can knock out the hitoe by hand in a few evenings in front of the TV.