Yesterday I took three little pieces of gold to a place that buys gold in all its forms. The nice man looked at them, weighed them and made me an offer. I had already decided that unless the offer was something truly ridiculous, like $20, I was leaving without the three little pieces of old – a ring and two earrings* – and with a bit of anonymous cash.
And so I did.
I then went to a local quilt shop and plopped down that bit of cash and a bit of my own and went home with a nice pile of fabrics. My evening was putting them into the washer and dryer and untangling them and roughly folding them. That whole process is part of the work – not only for the preparation of the fabric but to become acquainted with the color and pattern and texture of it all.
It’s not like I really needed any fabric. Who does, LOL? Sometimes you need something to seed the mix and make it all new and interesting and something to pull out the old stuff into the new ideas. That’s what I was doing.
Bye bye three little pieces of metal. Hello new ideas.
* a ring and a set of earrings which qualified as the ugliest earrings I ever imagined seeing let alone receiving as a so-called gift. Even the gold buyer was puzzled by them but…. yeah. My only regret is that I didn’t photograph them first to show them to you.
Aha!!! So you’re actually a GOLD SELLER! Busted! Ni Hao! Heheheh… Couldn’t resist!