"Yes, that's it," said the Hatter with a sigh: "it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles."

i have decided that i want to start a tea-cup collection.... it might have something to do with the fact that i just read Alice in Wonderland (and one of my favorite scenes just happens to be the Mad Hatter's tea party) or it may have been inspired by "tea at three" (a tea time / chat time event we used to run at the Rails End Gallery). The Gallery has this great collection of old tea-cups with matching  saucers that i LOVE.... and the best part about the collection is that each tea cup and saucer pair is individual and unique... there are no two that are alike! 

so... i have been thinking that i want to start a tea-cup collection and i want every tea cup to be unique... i will probably begin looking at antique stores and such... but in the meantime i was getting ideas from googling... and here are a few of my favourites! (in no particular order)

'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 

           'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'

'You mean you can't take less,' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take more than nothing."

           'Nobody asked your opinion,' said Alice.

- From the tea party in Alice in Wonderland 

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.

it is one of those rainy days... the kind where you want to curl up on the couch and read a good book. i am currently on my couch reading Alice and Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and contemplating things like life and when recycling day is... wishing i could escape down a rabbit hole and play croquet with flamingos and hedgehogs in the queen's garden.... instead... i will focus on getting my trash out to the curb before the garbage man comes. wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all just escape into fairytales sometimes? 

yesterday i was looking at my house....

... and i was thinking to myself how wonderful it would be if the top floor was actually an attic and if that attic was filled will old chests and books and memories.... i began imagining the amazing adventures i would have in the attic, exploring all the old trunks and finding incredible stories that would take me away to distant places....

 ...i have possibly been reading too much lately... but i take comfort in the fact that i still have the ability to imagine these things. as we grown up i think we can easily forget what it means to imagine. and i don't mean imagining yourself rich or with a glamorous life.... i mean imagine in the sense that you can create worlds and adventures that breathe life. it is sad to think that such a simple pleasure... one that brings people such joy can become lost on the path to growing up. maybe Peter Pen had it all right... maybe we should never grow up.

a post to begin all posts...

so...

i decided to start a blog because a little bird whispered in my ear that it would be a good... no, i believe the word was AWESOME... idea. so here I am

with my blog. 

i created it last night while i was supposed to be studying for my exam... you can call me the procrastinator... because that is what i do best.

                     i procrastinate. 

and now here i am... just finished my last exam, and i am sitting in my studio at school wondering where the year went. i am also wondering where i am going to put all this odd junk that i have gathered over the course of the year. all of these strangely mundane, yet wonderful objects... my belts, lampshades, nut bowls, wood lamps, framed paint by numbers, harlequin romance novels (i love the titles), and cross stitches. 

my dad will probably end up with most of them in his basement until i find a good use for them again. for now... i will go on gathering my objects and displaying them in my increasingly curious ways... perhaps one day i will come to some sort of conclusion as to why i feel the need to do such things.