Sunday, April 25, 2010

Bleh!

Do you ever have days when just the right combination of things makes you feel lousy?  I started out the day feeling crappy from imbibing in too much wine last night.  Nauseous, headache-y, just plain bleh.  It is such a stupid thing to do but at least I did it at home.  Didn't feel like eating much of anything today, except for some pretzels.  

I wanted to embellish another wool coat today, choosing the red one with the black velveteen collar.  My friends at Right off the Sheep suggested that I make it a Japanese themed coat.  Nice, I thought, but I really don't know a lot about Japanese culture.  I took one of their suggestions, a Ginkgo leaf, and looked up examples on the web.  I found one that I thought would work and got busy needle felting the leaves.  They look great on the coat but it needs more.

I thought I might do Japanese symbols for things like Love, Happiness, etc.  Big problem -- pretty darn complicated and I would need to be sure they're executed exactly or risk offending someone unintentionally.  So I'm putting that concept aside.  Maybe something black -- what about a little scroll work?  Squiggly lines?  A temple?

If you've got an idea throw it my way.  But for now, I'm finishing a load of wash, looking for a Motrin, and heading to bed.

3 comments:

Tanya said...

Does this help? http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://melsbrushes.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/japaneseflowers.jpg&imgrefurl=http://melsbrushes.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/japanese-flowers-brush-set/&usg=__cHZ37Gni_e_xMFdw74D6wYnx_DY=&h=323&w=430&sz=56&hl=en&start=16&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=16Xhlo1AwA56fM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djapanese%2Bart%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1

Tanya said...

sorry. . .couldn't figure an easier way to do the link!

Suzanne said...

Very interesting!