Laowai

This has been a long week and it’s only Thursday. Brian has been gone all but Monday evening. It’s been cold and rainy so we can’t go swimming. I’m about to strangle my kids by about 5:30 each day. Tonight I couldn’t cope with the end of the day routine so I declared a movie night and rented Dumbo from iTunes and made a quick batch of brownies. Bea got all the pillows out and we put jammies on earlier than normal.

I don’t remember watching Dumbo all the way through before until tonight. What a beautiful movie. It seems to have a lot of animation styles The scenes where they set up the circus tent in the rain has these 30’s style men in sihlohuette. The landscapes that are scattered throughout the movie have a soft, painterly, baby book style. And then there’s the scene where Dumbo and the little mouse get drunk and have an almost psychadelic styled dream scene. Good stuff – and Bea liked it too.

The one good thing about Brian being gone is that I take the time to sew. I finished a shirt last night and I’m really happy with it. It’s an easy tunic style that I could wear everyday. It doesn’t have any fasteners to fiddle with so it went together really quickly. I am so missing the fabric stores back in the US. Fabric here costs around 15 to 20 dollars per yard so I have been trying to make do with my stash of fabric until I can go on a shopping spree back in the US. Of course I’m not really suffering – I simply miss fabric shopping.

Here’s a photo of the shirt – by Bea. I think it looks much nicer than this photo shows and I can’t wait to make another. It’s the Tova shirt and dress pattern by Wiksten.

Hope you all have a nice relaxing weekend and please send some of that US heat wave our way.