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honestly.

i honestly don't know any way to put the thoughts and feelings into words.   they are not about any one specific thing or event, but what feels to me like a kind of blur of things and events.   and i am reminding myself that it might just be August.  and i think i will let it seep into tomorrow, even though that would be the 3rd day of September and then  just let it all go and begin anew on Sunday. 

so i'll show you here something that i have been looking at a lot.  holding a lot.  moving around,  a lot.  putting one next to the other.  piling them all up.  putting them back and taking them out again.

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this         array        of scraps came in two relatively small, deceptively small,  string pots from Deb Lacativa.  the pots have little tails…can you see them?  they are the most beautiful muted colors,  but inside each were the most surprising pieces.   i have spent a lot of time with these pots and their scraps since they arrived.  just being amazed.

 

 

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20 responses to “honestly.”

  1. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    deb’s cuss pots?? wonderful idea, and added goodies? priceless. at least to those of us who have a thing for scraps of this sort. oh woman…those scraps are awesome! [i just enlarged the pic cuz size does matter] the colors…the textures…[slurp….er…sorry…i just drooled]
    must admit that seed pod caught my eye too, the one resting on the books. we found something like that on a tree in eastern washington. many of the pods were still yellow making it look like a banana tree. haven’t got a clue what kind of tree it is though…do you know.???
    back to the scraps…gonna keep them together??

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  2. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Wonderfully colorful, and the pots are marvelous – like little nests unraveling. Love that they have tails!

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  3. Eva Ucgatwork Avatar
    Eva Ucgatwork

    Hi Grace,
    By the way: what is a “cuss” pot??? Anyway, whatever it is – it is beautiful!
    What a great present! Is it your birthday, or just because you are a really nice person?
    I’ve just chosen the little grey/brown cloth you sent within your letter weeks ago …another piece with a heart!
    Enjoy the weekend!
    eva

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    looks like a carob pod….
    deb is full of surprises
    where did summer go?

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  5. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    aren’t those cuss pots great. i opened the last one i bought at quilt bee and everyone oohd and aahd. that pod looks like a jackbean pod. i used to grow them years ago to cover up the fence and they had beautiful purple flowers. i need to go look and see if i have any of those seeds. i bet that plant would be good for dyeing.

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  6. Tammy Avatar
    Tammy

    Hi Grace, I’ve been trying to stay off the computer but stopped over here to see your blog .. love those scraps and that ring. You may have mentioned it before .. but .. i love it! What does it say? And the orange with the embroidery.. I LOVE Scraps like I have never loved them before !!! Sometimes I think loving these things can be detrimental because then I will save even the tiniest scrap. ha..
    I’m trying not to realize that it’s September already .. I miss the summer already. ………time is moving.

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  7. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    eva i am not sure why deb l. calls them cuss pots, but they are a small crocheted bowl shape she came up with a few years ago.

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  8. nance Avatar
    nance

    i love the little pot i got ages ago from deb. they are wonderful little treasures. i don’t know what to say about the first half of your post… it seems familiar territory to me. end of summer and early fall is one of my favorite times though. new beginnings. starting over. i savor each moment.

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  9. Vicky Avatar
    Vicky

    this is sort of what it looked like…
    http://www.creatorspalette.com/OrnamentalShadeTrees/Albizia-Mimosa-Silk-Tree/Albizia-julibrissin-aka-Mimosa/6432224_5sBQy/1/407504000_taaiZ#407504000_taaiZ-X3-LB

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  10. helen salo Avatar
    helen salo

    So that’s where you’ve been ..strung out on Deb’s pot (ha) I was addicted myself for awhile, I have a string of them hanging in my studio. (couldn’t help the tongue and cheek, you said you spent all this time with them since you got them, and it sounded like a drug. Ha!) which sometimes cloth can be, yes? Anyway… I could be wrong, but cuss pots that I knew of were set up so when someone swore they had to put money in it everytime they said a cuss word. Deb’s could mean something different…but you get the idea.

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  11. twhich aye Avatar
    twhich aye

    beautiful colors and lightness. like sittin in a summer dress on a cool porch fabric. the pots look like they were once alive, now used to hold things.
    un-nameable thoughts… untameable. letting them find their way, their place. where they can feel comfortable to raise their heads and speak.

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  12. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Grace-
    Love the pot with a tail and the delicious scraps. What a gathering of treasures from Deb.
    I feel the seasons shift, mostly soothing.

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  13. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    love them dangling, dripping off your arm and fingers.

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  14. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    it’s fun to rummage in someone else’s stash, thanks for showing us.

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    no…not together. they will appear ad infinitum in
    tiny brilliance on many cloths, amidst my “mute world”

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    another letter coming

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    tammy and also Jeannie still, i think,,,,
    the ring is a very inexpensive ring from
    Snowlion
    a tibetan buddhist publication
    you can google it
    the writing on it is the
    Om Mani Padme Hum (or Tibetan, peme hung) mantra
    it is a large ring that is almost too large to stay
    on my finger, therefore requiring me to be very mindful
    of every gesture. i wear it when i need that, when i
    have gotten too uhhh, too Too.
    it’s pretty, isn’t it. i had another, many years ago
    was old and wonderful. i gave it away.

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    twhich..i think that is what i will use one for.
    thought holding
    Love you here……….

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  19. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    oh hi, Kaite…..thank you for rummaging. stay, and
    visit a while………..

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  20. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    thanks, put a cuppa on and i will.
    kaite matilda
    http://kaiteyarngarden.blogspot.com
    sent from my iSpringGarden

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