Archive for February, 2008

Another peacock feather design option

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I call this one the “Wonder Woman” look…not sure if I like it as much as the other one, but, well, we’ll see.  Going down to Thai Silks tomorrow to find the base silk for the bodice - everything up in the air…

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Of granite, feathers, and chocolate

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I took a photo of my slab o’granite today:
 
I think the best way to describe the color is that it looks like a wildcat would look if you made the spots smaller and arranged them randomly across the cat.  As a traveling tiger, this naturally appeals to me.  Too bad they didn’t have tiger-striped granite!
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Picked up my granite today

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

It was neat - they took me to the back, where they had thirty or forty remnant slabs of granite, and I got to pick the one I wanted!  There were lots of colors and thicknesses - I fell absolutely in love with a black granite with green-gold flecks, but it was 1.5″ thick and [...]

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