Fantastical situations, heartless undercover men with heart, impossibly beautiful women (who help the heartless men discover their hearts), long and undoubtedly accurate technical descriptions of military equipment, incredibly complex conspiracies that require hundreds of people to operate with unerring efficiency and keep their mouths shut, formidable enemies who have terrible aim: such are the elements of a Robert Ludlum novel. Oh, how I love to listen to these novels on tape.
The tape of the moment is The Janson Directive, read by actor Paul Michael, who is good at accents: Russian, Indian, several kinds of British, New England, and more. It’s fun to hear him. The reading lasts through 28 sides of audiotape, and it’s a good thing, because the Snowflake wall hanging had lots of buttons and beads for me to sew. I also had to do quite a bit of seam reinforcement and some repair to the knitting by hand.
Now the wall hanging is as finished as it is going to get. I experimented with more buttons, but it is at a point where more embellishment detracts from the effect. It’s time to quit. Hurray!
I’m declaring this wall hanging as my July Project Spectrum contribution. July’s color is purple.
In other creative doings around the house, 10-year-old Eva gathered burr oak acorns and gave them faces and hair. She called them ‘talking heads,’ and told her sister that if she were lonely, she could talk to one and it would make her feel better.