bringing back the whom

my last few days
of my trip
i was back in
san francisco...
thursday
and
friday were
definitely
highlights
of my trip
because
thursday
i met up
with an old friend
for dinner
and
friday
i spent
the day with lisa s.
and had dinner
with both lisas
and even got
to meet
shash
(adore her)
and nathalie
(tells super
funny stories).

lisa s. and i
had plans
for a lot
of photo-taking
but it was
a cloudy
rainy
gray day
and i think
that we both
were still
a little shy.
i am certainly
very
camera shy
because
i am horribly
unphotogenic...
some day
i will show you
outtakes
to show
you exactly
what i mean.

(vintage skirt
i decorated
with felt birds
while on vacation)

i think
seeing
the quilts of gee's bend
definitely
inspired me
to start quilting...

many of the quilts
were very bright
and complicated
but we both
fell in love
with loretta
pettway's
beautiful minimal
quilts...
lisa was impressed
by her
amazing sense of
composition
and i was drawn
to her choice of color
and quilting pattern.
i am so glad i got
a chance to see them
and going with lisa
made it so much
more fun...

although
i only had
a very little
amount of time
with shash,
she's the kind of
gal you
instantly adore.
who couldn't adore
a girl who
names
her cat
pinky leon?
i wish that
we could
have chatted
more.

over dinner
that night
before i left
san francisco

the lisas, grub
and i
were talking
about
grammer,
language
and how
you learn your
own language better
when you learn
a second language...
not sure how
it came up
but
i told them about
how i grew up
with my mother,
a non-native
english speaker,
always correcting
my grammer...
she was particularly
insistent that
i used the word
"whom"
properly
("who" turns into "whom"
after prepositions)...
so we all mused about
how no one
uses "whom" anymore...
and lisa c. suggested
that we
should start
a movement,
"bringing back the whom"
i like the idea.
a grammer
movement?
why the hell not?!


(laundromat in sf
where i felted purses)

so i am a bit
out of sorts
since my return.
it's like coming
home after
a long trip
to a messy house.
although my physical
house is not messy,
my mental "house"
is a pig sty...

i have so many
thank yous
for lovely packages
and notes...
i haven't forgotten
all you lovely people
and will make sure
to post photos
and thank yous
this week
as i am returning
to real life again...

what a better way
to return back
to blog life
then
the collection collective!

it's cooling down
here in DC
and although
i may not have
coats as cool
as alicia and lisa
i will share
my vintage coats
and more stories
tomorrow.


(where we stayed
at sea ranch)

good to be back-
missed you all.
i'll be stopping
by your blogs
and catching up
this week.
xo