yesterday Fabric Depot- a massive store in SE portland had 40-50% off all fabric. so jan ( my fiber artist neighbor) and i took the trek to the poart of town we never go into-- for the savings. I bought ten yards of  fabric -- black and white linen - 5 of each color to make a dress called a yin yang dress. well two of them so i could change the combos.  essentially it is two 3/4 dresses each part worn with another. so one could wear it all black  , all white, or black and white. I am looking forward to wearing it as black and white with one black shoe and one white shoe (I bought some talbot sandals -one pair in black and another white.) and then I thought ome large wooden beads in bright yellow would look great with the outfit.

Jim looks askance at these antics. The idea of mismatched color shoes happened by accident when i spent a summer day over a decade ago wearing one pink and one blue huarche- is that spelled right? And it wasn't till the end of the day that I discovered it and thought oh how cool. so I often will buy two pair of the same shoes like yellow patent and pink patent sandals and wear then with a summer skirt and tee in bright yellow.

and since i make most of my clothing I can really feed this assymetry thing.

and after finishing the matisse Bio I was quite surprised to learn that each painting filled with joy to our eyes was agony for matisse to make. he analogized that it was like lancing a boil. one never knows.