I'm meeting someone for the first time tomorrow. We're both members of the same profession and professional organisations, and she's coming into town to do a few things and we're having lunch. On a whim - and since I seem to have acquired the ability to get rid of things - I popped an enamelled paperclip into a gift bag and set about constructing one of the gift boxes I got ages ago in a pound shop in Brighton, of all places, to put it all in.
And then I thought, why not something else too? I have loads of phone straps made up from when I was doing craft fairs. But it's not so easy when you don't know what kind of colours someone likes. So... I searched for her online. And found a picture on her membership profile on a site and could see that she is blonde and was wearing some kind of party dress with a gold ribbon. So, I raided my stash of Swarovski and came up with a phone strap with an AB coated pale yellow-orange heart. That'll do.
Well, she might be doing the same with me.
It also reminded me to put a strap on a very old "MOM" construction I have, that I'm going to give to Mom when I see her in Paris next month. And that I haven't taken a photo of the chainmail flower kit I just finished (bar not being able to find my split rings, which are probably still in storage boxes down in the keller) and put it up here yet. That's next on the list!
It was a rush to go through some of my things, even the ready-made ones, and think like that again.
