milla plays piano game

movement

 A lot has happened in the past week, so sorry not sorry for taking a posting vacation. After packing up the things that never made it from New York to Block Island last year, a swing through Providence for my first visit with the grands in over a year (and to pick up yet more stuff) I fetched up on Bleak Isle to more plumbing problems (washing machine, toilet, bathub, outdoor shower—and that's only in one house) with a lot to unpack. The seagull was interested in the process since there was food as well as furniture involved. Yes, another substandard chair. And yesterday, the fam came for a stay.

 

progress

The peeling wallpaper was removed. The plaster and primer were applied.

 

Zyambo will continue after my departure. Tomorrow. Taking my tiny karela vines and hoping they survive the trip.

pentimento

 

   As the bathroom is deconstructed (unpacked???), aged wallpaper has come into view. I almost want to to redo it. Almost. 

 In other apartment news, I know you are sick of my kitchen gallery, but fortunately I am not. And I have a new addition, thanks to my belle soeur, Lynn Osborne. I have been moving her picture around looking for the best spot. Here?

Or here? Or should it go someplace completely different like the Goose?

I have been over-aquisitioning, as is clear from my truck. I also scored a bolt of fabric my neighbor was throwing out. Don't know what I'm going to do with it, but it suits one of my motifs.

And Zyambo is coming to start tearing apart my bathroom more in order to fix. I can't leave town until that's done, so we'll see how far he gets today. But I'm ready to move on, even with everything looking beautiful.

  here is a link to Chien-Chi's Burma video from some years back. And a link to Hannah's new anxiety pin. And one to Isaac's interminable Ten Things You Need To Know About Minecraft video.

   And here is my beautiful lobby.

  

covid creativity

 

 Camilla Imogen has become a model. Well, not really: She has become a designer. She had a vision of a summer dress. She made a pattern out of newsprint. She found some fabric in the scrap box. (It looks familiar to me, but I can't remember where it came from.) She taught herself to sew and made a dress.  Oh, and matching pocketbook. In one day. 

   I'm not sure that Camilla, who I call Mimi or Mouse Leader, is really related to me. During this year of seclusion she has learned Spanish in an online class, continued her piano lessons virtually with her teacher and done home schooling with her parents. Doesn't that sound like enough? Never mind hobbies and posting her family tree on the wall. In Spanish, as if it's not difficult enough to understand already.

   Meanwhile, I have done nothing this year except clean out a couple closets and go to the dentist. The good news is, I am hoping to see Mouse Leader and Mouse Seven next week! Plumbing issues permitting.