Friend: What’s this?
Kate: Someone hung them from the knob of my back door yesterday.
Friend: Someone left you a bunch of Yellow Book bags?
Kate: Yeah.
Friend: Do you not find it odd that people give you their trash on a regular basis?
Kate (shrugs shoulders): That’s their way of encouraging my creative side.
Friend: I see. I suppose that makes it not weird at all. . . You should try to get them to encourage your money making side.
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Mel: How long have these been sitting here?
Kate: I don’t know. Since spring last year.
Mel: A year?
Kate: I haven’t prioritized using them yet.
Mel: I think you should prioritize using them within the next month.
Kate: All you’re doing is forcing me to start another project. I already have projects in the works.
Mel: You could just get rid of them.
Kate: But I like them. They’re yellow.
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One of my long standing guilty pleasures is watching and rewatching episodes of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. It’s not that I find the plots riveting or the acting superb. What truly stimulates my little gray cells is the costumes. Fancy dresses, hats, gloves. I sit there in my standard uniform of jeans and a t-shirt and covet the clothing worn by actors in a detective series set within the upper class society of by-gone area. “I wish I could pull off wearing that kind of thing,” thinks the woman who typically removes her bra the moment she gets home from her day job.
As I processed my yellow bags into plarn, Poirot’s secretary, Miss Lemon, appeared on my screen wearing a matching coat/cape and a dainty matching hat. It was at this moment that I decided that I would attempt to make a cute little yellow hat out of my plarn.
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Kate places partially finished hat upon her scalp to see how her creation is fitting.
Mel: It looks like a Bob the Builder hat.
Kate: It’s not done yet. I still have faith my creation will be cute.
Mel: We all need to have faith in something.
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Kate (places partially finished hat on her head): Does it still look Bob the Builder?
Mel: No. It looks like a yellow version of my fishing hat.
Kate (furrows eyebrows and removes): Once I get the feathers and the hat band done, it will have swagger.
Mel: Swagger huh.
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My finished product is not exactly what I had envisioned. It is perhaps bit more fishing cap than elegant Miss Lemon, but it’s not a bad first attempt with a non-traditional material.
The real test will be if I actually have the guts to wear this thing outside my home. . .
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Kate (staging hat for blog photo)
Mel: Nice job, girl. Did you manage to use up all those yellow bags with this project?
Kate: Not even half of them.
Mel: You going to throw the rest out?
Kate (furrows eyebrows): No. I’m going to make a matching purse or necklace or something.
Mel (raises eyebrow): Another project?