Earlier this month, I thought I was going to do something election-related. But much like last month, since I didn’t get to doing the illustration until much later, it didn’t seem timely anymore to reference the election. Over the last week, chickens seem to have been a bit of a recurring theme, as we had the opportunity to visit some friends last week who are raising chickens. We visited these friends en route to the wedding of two other friends, and at the wedding, we learned that these friends are also raising chickens. Their wedding cake toppers even featured the chickens.
Archive for November, 2012
What Does One Do With Hundreds of Corks?
Ever since moving to Philadelphia in 2001, I’ve been saving corks from wine bottles. They seemed useful, and although I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them, I was sure I’d come up with something. While visiting a friend many many years ago, I noticed that he had a lovely wreath made from wine corks similar to this one, so for a while I assumed I would make a nice wreath once I collected enough corks.
The only problem was that once I had accumulated enough corks to make a wreath, I realized that I didn’t really want or need a wreath. Wall space is at a premium in my house between my artwork and friends’ artwork hanging on the walls, and I’m not really the kind of person who has wreaths hanging in her house year-round anyway. So there I was, with a big bag of wine corks and no plan for what to do with them.