Dec 13 2010
Un-Christmas Presents
If, as Lewis Carroll says, there are 364 days a year to receive un-birthday presents, the same goes for un-Christmas presents. And they may be even more delightful.
Rob has been taking a ceramics course a couple of nights a week, a birthday present from our thoughtful Erica. So my unbirthday presents arose from a birthday present.
Exhibit A is this bowl:
He molded it from cabbage leaves, fired it, and glazed it with both green and blue:
I know I could eat a salad out of it, or even cabbage, but so far, it remains an objet d’art on the shelf above my sofa, along with this beautiful little box:
I thought Rob made the texture by pressing grass into the clay, but he actually achieved this bucolic effect by wrapping an empty plastic bottle with crinkled plastic wrap. However he got there, I love the look and shape of it. It also happens to look perfect with a string of hand-carved amethyst beads:
On a more practical note, while still being both decorative and delightful, Erica made me a hat. Which doubles as a scarf/neckwarmer:
I can wrap it around my head, kerchief style, and button it in place so my hair sort of cascades out the back. Or I can wear it around my neck. It’s incredibly soft and luxurious, and comforting to wear inside my drafty house or outside in the wind.
I’m so lucky to have such great friends. And speaking of friends: Paul arrives tomorrow!