Saturday 1 September 2012

learning to expect the unexpected

we had another splendid day at St Augustine's
quite appropriately
ecclesiastical purple seemed to prevail
[the pagan orange usually provided by eucalyptus was in abeyance]
although a couple of pre-loved teabags did their best on this landskin







  
 

this little flower may prove to be the new love of my life

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and in a remarkable coincidence
i said to the class "i'm about to hand out a little present"
and one of the students, Aviva
said
"i have a present for you too"
handing me a lovely ball of wool dyed in yellow and green
oddly similar the the silk thread i was handing out

 at lunchtime i swung into the Selvedge shop
conveniently situated just up the road
yesterday i found a book of Chiyoko Tanaka's work
and i thought i'd have a look to see what other treasure might be on the shelves
[particularly as they were having a 20% off sale]

imagine my surprise when i found the catalogue
from my 2005 L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival exhibition
"benedictus ex-dress" on the shelves amid the books being offered for sale
[i sent it to them way back then as part of a media kit]


especially remarkable as Selvedge declines to stock both


9 comments:

  1. Serendipitous, me thinks... is that a petunia variety?

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  2. Oh ! the colour of the flowers is stunning !!!

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  3. black petunia i guess.........
    i too got it a few days ago but the rain left not much of the flowers.....

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  4. gloriously rich.... and the flowers are nice too..

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  5. selvedge is notoriously squirrelly to deal with. but really!
    good finds, and chiyoko tanaka is new to me. thanks.

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  6. forgot to say i like your title.

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  7. 10 bad points for Selvedge, very disappointing.

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  8. Selvedge has great potential, though...seems to me that they may need to decide whether they are a high-end home textiles shop
    or
    a classy, tightly edited cutting edge textile magazine. at present there's a sense of interrupting their important work when wanting to ask about stuff [with the intent of buying]
    which doesn't really make me a keener customer.

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