thrifting, spinning, eating

i super love my new (thrifted) wrap-around skirt.

    i failed to get a very good picture of it,  but you can probably get the idea.   it's a soft but sturdy cotton,  and it wraps around enough so that i feel reasonably safe in all but the strongest gusty breezes.   plus it makes me feel like i am on a one woman mission to bring back my mother's wardrobe circa my early childhood.   i wish i had the dr. scholl's or the espadrilles that she would have worn with a skirt like this.   (luckily, i also don't have the deep, dark tan shown off by a stretchy, vibrantly colored tube top as she would have had during this era.)

oh, and i discovered the very best thing about my new skirt when i sat down to spin this morning.  look:

 

matchy!  i don't think i could have matched this colors any better had i tried. 

the yarn in progress:

 

    i also cooked a bunch today.   i had a spurt of kitchen-centered energy and i decided to try to cook as much as i could so that i have to do very little of it this week,  when i will most likely be all tired and lazy-like.   for lunch i made this quinoa salad with raw, shredded golden beets, tomato, cucumber, green onion, capers, feta and lemony green olives.   i also mixed in some flax oil because it makes me feel like i'm being all healthy.   it could have used about half a lemon's worth of juice, but it was still pretty damn good.   dessert tonight was homemade hot fudge sundaes with maraschino cherries and whipped cream and sprinkles.   natasha is miss pun-o-rific and insists that we should all eat a sundae every sunday.  i'm not inclined to disagree! 

Comments

[erin]

i love the colors in your skirt and that yarn - so beautiful! and quinoa is an old fave of mine, but i haven't had it in awhile. going to the market later, going to add it to my list. thanks for reminding me, aprill.

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i love your skirt!
xoxo

[kate]

beautiful colors in that yarn and good thrift find!!