Fly away home

A wonderful little boat sailed into my life yesterday ...

a gift from Hazel

http://handstories.typepad.com/blog/2017/09/giving-all-around.html

The colors took me back to this picture at the Outer Banks, where our oldest and youngest granddaughters met for the first time this past June ...

How did she know?

Hazel wrapped her gift in tie-dyed indigo ...

from which I tore a strip to make a birthday gift for my dear friend Barb in Virginia, stitched with what I have begun to think of as Deb Lacativa's wild peace floss ...

It was a little longer than the pins I've been making, which gave me an idea. What if I signed the inside ...

so the pin can also be worn asemically ...

Hmmm, I think I like it.

So I'm headed to the post office to send more peace pins out into the world ...

Ten to Kristin for the refugees she tutors and has mentioned in comments here. One to Tina in Wisconsin who sent an email request for a pin. One to Deb along with a check for more of her wild peace floss (aka Dirty Threads)

http://randomactsofdyeness.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-cassini-group.html

And one to Barb, of course.

Back in July when my once-upon-a-time college roommate came to visit we did lots of the usual tourist-type stuff, visiting a vineyard ...

heading to San Antone (and no, we didn't actually go into the Snake Farm) ...

and listening to music ...

At some point (ha!) along the way, Linda mentioned that her husband John (who didn't make it out to Texas this time) had mentioned wanting a dream catcher for his guitar. 

While she was here, I made her a couple of version 1.0 peace pins ...

But it wasn't until this week that I finally cobbled up a Lone Star version of a dream catcher, complete with Deb's floss and Cascade Trail turkey feathers ...

Now ready to fly away home ...