Life's a Stitch

This past spring, when I had professional prints made of the dog portrait I painted for my sister, there was a free pile outside the photo shop. “Thrifting” is another enjoyable non-lethal hunting behaviour for us right up there with mushrooming and geocaching. C views  everything through his “what can I do with this?” filter, as was the case with this Brilliant brand broken tripod from the junk pile in front of the photography store. 

Paired with a piece of hickory wood, C turned it, excuse the woodworking pun, into a side table to put between our new Norwegian chairs. Zoom in to see the Brilliant brand metal plate just under the tabletop.

Rescue mission #2. When we moved into our last house in 1998, we discovered an indoor planter filled with zebra plants and overgrown ladyfinger cacti. The previous owner had lived there since 1959, so the plants were potentially approaching their 40th birthdays. We carefully repotted them and they eventually made the move with us to White Rock.

I did my best to keep them alive during the renovation, but the winter months without heat took their toll. A few of the zebras escaped unscathed and last week I noticed a tiny patch of fresh green on the cactus! These are now almost 60 years old and I was determined to save them. C did a nice job repotting them in a garage sale planter and dollar store pots and he’s carefully spritzing them back to life.