Hearts & Flowers

 I decided that maybe my mojo would come back if I mixed up the projects I work on for a bit.

So the Cherished Needlecase was set up on the stand, and I have been stitching palettes or spangles or whatever you want to call those little shiny disks to the silk:

Oh, how I wish the camera would pick up the glitter!

I have more metal to add to this section. I need to cut some little pieces of green smooth purl, which means I need to pull out my metal scissors and a metric ruler so I get them cut correctly.

And I discovered the story that the black dog pinged. It was a story written by Stephen Crane in the 1800's. I kept thinking it was something older than current fiction--thought it might be a mystery from the 1920's or '30's--maybe even something by Edgar Allan Poe from the 1800's--pulled an anthology of mysteries and ghost stories from the 1800's off the shelf (we have a very eclectic library in this household)--and there it was. The black dog was a harbinger of death in the Crane story, as apparently it was in many folk tales from a number of countries.

This still doesn't explain the spots on Carmen's dog.