May to Janet - Rocks as *art*

 

This is before I added to it. On the stamp, the piñata is hanging by a cord - so I added a cord on this envelope before I mailed it. Photo will appear on June 30.

Just a heads up that the blog will be returning to complete and utter chaos through July. As much as I love all the new organizational components that I have instituted, they all hinge on me actually doing things. And doing things hinges on me remembering - and that seems to be beyond my current skillset. Not in an alarming way - just in a way that will keep the blog chaotic.

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One of the perks of being a calligrapher is that some of the clients have been pillars of the community who live in houses that are the equivalent of mansions. This is Des Moines, so they are not like east coast mansions or Chicago mansions, but they're lovely - and inhabited by people who run in different circles than I do. They do have parties - so sometimes I'd have jobs - and sometimes I would meet the person (rather than their event planner or personal assistant) and once in a while, I needed to deliver the job to their home, so I'd get a peek into a Des Moines style mansion.

At one of these deliveries, there was a large flat basket full of beautiful stones. They looked exactly like the stones that I lusted after that are on the north shore of Lake Superior. I was compelled to ask, "Are those stones from Lake Superior?"

Why, yes - they were - and the lovely lady of the house and I instantly bonded on the love of north shore rocks...... tune in tomorrow for HER story..... it's a doozie.