rah rah rah... Thunder! (channelling AC/DC )

Zoinks! Jazz and I found ourselves in the thunder shower this morning! Of course it starts raining when we're over 1 km away and she doesn't have her rain coat on. The thunder was almost right over us - poor noise phobic dog - what could I do? We hustled home as quickly as we could. Then I gave her some drugs and turned on the washing machine in the hopes of drowning the noise.

I guess the thunder also scares other animals because I watching two very large raccoons dash across the road this morning and the first was almost hit by a truck. Scary. At first I thought it was a dog because it was so big. Poor things, I hope they are okay. It was a mighty thunder this morning and it's still raining hard.

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I was reading an interesting newsletter by the Vancouver painter, Robert Genn today. He talks about Shibui. Which he describes as: Shibui is a broad term that can mean irregularity of form, openness to nature, roughness of texture, and the naturalness of daily life. You can read more here.

I wanted to share this with you because as crafters, we try so very hard for perfection. We are so used to seeing commercially produced items that we forget to embrace the uniqueness of our creations. He says, "Shibui comes naturally, shows the hand of the maker, and triumphs gesture and the vagaries of process." His article goes on to give advice to painters, however, I think all of us who make things can take these concepts into consideration regardless of weather we are painting, or embroidering or knitting.

But this concept should not be kept a secret among the creators, we should also pass this on to our buyers or those that receive our creations because some of them have no qualms pointing out any imperfections - like the comments sometimes heard at a craft fair - so part of marketing our goods would also be educating the receivers that they should not expect factory perfection or identical products, or concentrate on those that appreciate our 'irregularity of form'.

Has this been an issue for you?

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And finally - look people - a new season of CRL - launching this Thursday!