The Jensen shirt on one of my favourite models

 The son who has recently moved to Texas was back this weekend for a wedding. That gave me a chance to hand over the linen Jensen shirt to him and to snap a picture when we went out for breakfast.

He's tall and lean like we all are so the only alteration I made to the XL version was to add two inches in body length. I also made sure to pre-wash and pre-shrink the linen because I know that chances of this shirt being ironed, unless I am there to visit, are not incredibly high. Just see how wrinkled it got from sitting for an hour in a restaurant. Got to roll with it.

The linen was from Blackbird Fabrics which once again delivered top quality. As I think I did too when I gave birth to this guy.

I'll be making him more of these for sure.

Flypaper thoughts first of August version

• You are kidding
• August 1st?
• After a year of everything going too slow
• This came on too fast
• However in two weeks I will be seeing my kids in the US
• About time, about time
• We all need more hellos and fewer goodbyes
• I have spent the last month
• Sewing for everyone
• Treading water at the bottom of water slides
• Saying you can do it you can do it
• Having dinners with the table full after a long, long pause
• Remembering my recipes for crowds
• Hearing about heat waves everywhere else
• While I think I feel fall in the air here
• And writing
• Few projects there
• This year has taught more than all the meditation apps 
• In the world could
• About the present moment
• And it's gifts being all you've got
• The rest is not in our hands
• Which is a good thing
• Our hands are busy enough
• I am a meditation drop out
• Tried and tried but failed
• And it's supposed to be the answer to everything
• Let those thoughts float by like clouds
• And let them go
• But what if those thoughts are these
• When did I last take the dog out to pee
• What if I dried those herbs in the Intsapot
• When was the last time I watered the herbs
• How many buttons do I need for that shirt
• Seven or eight
• I wish I was in NYC
• I get the best buttons there
• I need some shell buttons
• The ones that look plain on the front but like pearly shells 
• On the side you can't see
• That's quality
• How many buttons would I have to buy 
• To justify a trip to NYC
• What am I saying
• Who needs to justify button buying
• However at the moment it is just one shirt
• My neighbour's son has been transferred to Moscow
• She thought he was coming home
• When my boys where little
• Her husband cut off the pickets to the fence
• That separate our yards
• He was worried either his boys or mine
• Would impale themselves 
• When they went over that fence
• As they did 8,000 times a day
• Playing games
• That involved the older boys inventing
• Elaborate challenges for the younger ones
• For admission into some club
• Where only older boys got to do the fun stuff
• But the younger guys never figured out
• Since they were too busy running around the block five times
• As instructed
• Well now they are in Calgary, Edmonton, Berkeley, Austin and Moscow
• And we have a different fence
• The grapes are out in the vine around my window
• I can hear the raccoons running across the roof at night
• Not light on their feet
• My neighbour across the street told me that he saw 4-5 of them up there one night
• My big laugh of the week
• Was some poor soul trying to sell door-to-door security systems
• Ha I already have one
• She's called Mrs. Smith
• Also across the street
• One foot in the front door and the phone rings
• You left the trunk open on the car
• You dropped a mitt on the driveway
• She does the day shift
• Barry does the night shift
• That's why he's on top of the raccoon situation
• No I don't need an app for that
• Not sure I need an app for much
• Sorry about that
• Sewing is my meditation
• And after I sew sometimes I am rewarded with a look like this
• On a face like this
• Beats clouds