Flowering Tea with Calamity

It's been a few days since I have posted, and as I sit drinking this delightful jasmine flavored tea, I want to back up and pretend you are here with me at the dining room table and the kettle just came to a boil and as I open the  round package of Flowering Tea and set out the 3 types:
 Juliet's Kiss, Gilded Lotus and Summer Bouquet
 for you to chose from you say, oh, how wonderful and I agree, as I slip it into the tea pot and we watch, eager as kids at the curb listening for the faint melody of the ice cream man, for it to bloom.

Oh, yes, Juliet's Kiss sounds nice...
Jasmine with Green tea tied in a bundle and when steeped in boiling water it actually blooms like a flower...and if you shut your eyes, you are there, with the midnight blooming jasmine perfuming the air and filling you with the sensation of being carried aloft on the wings of a beautiful giant peacock into the starry sky towards heaven above...or, maybe not.
Maybe that's just me being silly again.
 (Made by a company called Primula and found at Target next to the clear tea pots- finally I can afford to have this elegant and lovely tea experience.
I saw some at several kitchen stores but it was like 35$ a box and I just couldn't justify that expenditure on something so fleeting as tea. Here one minute, out your bladder the next!
I may wish I was a princess, but clearly, I am not!)
Anyway...forgive my rambling
Maybe you're just sitting here with me, while I tell my crazy backward stories, like,  I was at Target the other day, after not having been in one since probably Easter ( I try!) and I'm walking along, minding my own business and suddenly I see these giant wooden scissors.
Yes.
That's what I said!
You know I love novelty stuff and vintage stuff and would think I'd found nirvana if I ever could win an eBay bid for one of those old fashioned tailor or haberdashery signs carved from wood and dangling a thimble or giant scissors- so this is attainable, yet it's $19.99 and that seems like a lot for a giant wooden pair of scissors.
I hold them.
I lovingly touch the carved smooth wooden handles.
I put them back.
I keep walking.
I want to call someone and tell them that I just found Giant Wooden Scissors at Target and how I really want them and hope that they will talk me into buying them.
What kind of Sewing Girl am I without a Giant Pair of Wooden Scissors?
Ready for more tea?
It smells wonderful and tastes just like the flowers are blooming in your mouth.
I bet it would be wonderful to bake with.
Have some banana bread, won't you?
Would you like some honey?
So, as I continue walking through Target I see a whole end-cap set with wrapping paper and tissue paper and office stuff like desk pad and calender and file folders designed by John Derian with vintage script and butterflies and botanical Flowers and I quickly toss the tissue into my buggy because I am going to be making a paper garment for the upcoming Project Blogaway next week and it is perfect for what I have in mind.
I browse through the Halloween and though they have some cool candy and bar-tending supplies (nice brain and severed hand molds for punching up your party libations), they don't have it all out yet.

 I did see nice table setting stuff on another end-cap skull and bones beaded place mats and silver napkin rings that have crows, spiders, skulls shining nicely amongst the napkins and dishtowels.
 Adult spooky stuff not for kids- for the vampires and witches who take Halloween decorating seriously.
Anyway I looked at everything and went home without the giant wooden scissors.
It wasn't prudent when gas is ridiculously high and blah blah blah.
I did,  later,  tell Mr Super Fred about the GWS (giant wooden scissors) and then he chuckled but didn't say it was completely insane.
Then I told my friend Cheryl about them and she giggled and agreed that they would be marvelous and that I should have some.
So, I made a deal with myself - if the next Target I went to had them I would get them. After all, you only live once and maybe I could use them in my upcoming Art Shows as my sign or something?
The Target close to my house isn't a super duper uber Target like the one I saw them at originally and there was a risk that they wouldn't be there.
My fingers clenched and unclenched over the buggy handle until I found the department they should have been in.
My stomach jiggled as I almost ran.
My little sausage thighs were almost ready to ignite when there they were!
Not one pair, but 3 to chose from!
Thank you, Lord.

I say a prayer of thankfulness mixed with severe promises to be good, real good and finish aprons and get some sold and try to be more business like.
Get stuff done!
Be a real Artist!

Not some old lazy crazy lady shuffling along making doll quilts between baking banana bread and watching the mushrooms grow in her front yard.
Promises, promises.
I pulled the scissors out after dinner that night, making Mr Super Fred shut his eyes and promise not to get mad and he just laughed at me.
I said"Aren't they glorious?"
"Yes", he said.
"I'm glad they make you happy".
They do.
Giant Wooden Scissors and Flowering Jasmine Tea.

Life has it's moments when simple things can make us feel happy and satisfied.
So this weekend has been relaxing- I straightened up all my paper and stamping supplies yesterday- I had purchased a 4 drawer plastic drawer thing at Target, ironically enough it was $19.99, but sorely needed to organize my paper.

I have it all nice a ready for the next Paper Doll Making Day.
I have some new ideas and will work on it after I finish my doll quilts and aprons and the Paper outfit and dress form for Project Blogaway.
Lots to do as I sit back and sip the last sip and wish you a lovely day and can't wait to  get busy again this coming week.
Thanks for stopping by!
Love & Stitches,
Calamity Kim