Pineapple Question.

Here's my question of the day;

If you are at a market stall or in a shop and see something that you love but know you have the skills to make, do you buy it?

This morning I went to check out this lovely cushion.

My girlfriend had told me about it and I wasn't disappointed.

I love the look of it, I respect the skill involved and I think it is hilarious that it has pineapples all around it.

But I have the skills to make it.

The guy in the shop, a friend of a friend, let me take photos of it.

Neither he or the shop owner knows anything about who made it or where it originally came from.

So I left it there with the intention of one day making something very much like it, probably without the pineapples though.

But over coffee, ten minutes later I changed my mind.

I really love it and it would suit my lounge room.

As a crocheter I know how long it would take to make and I would much rather have a hand made piece like this in my home than some generic chain store cushion.

So I went back and bought it.

Would you?

Have you?

The back.

Yesterday's opening of wolf at the door was a lovely event. Most of Daylesford was there, as well as many of the Melbourne artists.

I love the way Magali displayed my flowers and was thrilled to find many of them missing. I'm hoping they've been sold and not put away in the back room.

My little flower girls looked lovely too and thankfully didn't bump any artworks over. I think they did eat most of the chips though. Oh yeah, and there was the incident at the end when the middle one sat on the floor and refused to leave....