One of my many obsessions is buttons. Not the silly slogan/photo kind of buttons, but the ability to actually function as a closure buttons. When we lived in Providence, there was an antique shop at Wayland Square that had an old library card catalog with all the drawers filled with old buttons. I used to just go and dig through those whether I actually “needed” any or not. And a weird thing about Kyiv is that I find old buttons on the street all the time. Where they all come from, I don’t know, but I pick them up anyway.
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Yesterday Shawn’s bid list came out. For those of you unfamiliar with the Foreign Service, this is the list of open jobs that he can bid on (request) for our next tour. Sounds great, right? Well, let me just explain the process to you and you can make up your own mind.
Thanks to everyone for your supportive comments and e-mails after my last posting. I’m settling in to 2008 and it’s going well, so far. I’m working on several projects for myself and for gifts and, as a result, I’m staying very busy. I realized that I haven’t posted photos of my last few projects, so here they are.
I’m not usually one that’s into making New Year’s resolutions. Mostly because I know I won’t keep them and then will just feel guilty about it. And I honestly don’t need anything else to feel guilty about. However, this year is a little different for me. I wouldn’t say that I’ve made resolutions, exactly. It’s more that I’m trying to start with a clean slate in 2008. (And I seem to have inadvertently made a catchy slogan for myself.)