My house with two teenagers is a frenetic mix of hormones, raw talent, drama, and curiousity. I had a lovely dinner tonight with both of my teens, my almost 19 year old (ten days to go), has an audition tomorrow night for the spring musical at the college. So in his deep baritone voice, he sang all through dinner, practicing his audition piece, it was dinner theatre at its best! And my daughter, when she could get a word in edge wise, regaled us with her latest passion of the moment, political humor. She has discovered The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report and as she listens to the shows on her computer in her room, peals of teenage laughter waft through the halls.
Brianna came home tonight from her Girl Scout meeting, with her prize for selling an obscene amount of magazines, (all of which we bought, hence the Martha Stewart Living with all the recipes she has been trying). It looked like the plastic balls we use to let the hamsters run around in, I’m sure that’s what it is. But she claims it is an ice cream ball, that you fill the cylinder inside with cream and sugar and vanilla (of course she had to do a more advance flavor, key lime), fill the ball with ice and rock salt (the coarse sea salt in the cabinet will have to do) and you just shake. For 20 minutes. She is sitting about three feet away from me, shaking this ball with ice cubes and salt jostling around. Yes, I will miss my children when they are grown up and gone…
We are coming down the home stretch! I am getting really excited, the lining is all pinned in, and I can’t be happier with the coat. I had a silk sari from one of my husband’s previous trips to India, (he told me he picked up 10 more yesterday at one of the shopping malls in Mumbai, yippee!) and used it for the lining, it was a beautiful cherry/wine red with small gold circles woven in, and I thought it would be a beautiful surprise inside the coat. I woke up this morning thinking I should interline the coat after all, There was plenty of room in the sleeves when I tried it on, and the lining was very soft and slippery, almost too soft and fine for the bulk of the coat, and the interlining would help bulk up the lining. So I mounted a needlepunched fleece from HTCW onto the back of the lining, which took the better part of the day, assembled the lining, and inserted it into the coat. Now I have an enormous amount of handwork. I can actually baste the lining in, which I will probably do tonight, and the coat can be photographed, I can do the handwork later, while I watch my daughter practice volleyball, or watch TV. I recorded both episodes of Masterpiece Theatre’s Wuthering Heights. That would be great to sew to…