Of bedsheets, of being in bed and fabrics

This is is the place I love every monday morning...every morning in fact, since winter quietly settled in....Yes, my bed !

If you ever visit Andalusia in winter and stay in a rural or traditional house, you will love the sunny hours in the morning but you will also discover that calefacion (heating) is most often non existent and this can be a drawback. I've got used to it now and do as people do here, keeping warm with a portable gas heater and a small electrical one in the bathroom. A friend made me laugh the other day, she was just coming back from a quick trip to France and didn't feel like coming back because all the places she went to had central heating and she just hated the idea of going back to her big cold house.

at least there is sunshine in my bedroom in the morning so it gives me the kick I need to get up, otherwise believe me comes 11 and you will still find me in my bed like a marquise waiting in vain for her chocolat.... This reminds me of a very interesting document I saw on Arte, a long time ago, about people who just love their bed and enjoy an horizontal life. Most of the people interviewed lived in Germany and had a busy professional life. I specifically remember this family who had an enormous Chinese bed in their living room where they watched TV, read, invited friends to have tea and chat and had dinner sometimes. This lifestyle is quite tempting to me but I would be afraid to turn rapidly into a fat loukoum. And to be honest, because I'm convinced, I'm a naturally born lazy person so in order to compensate, I want to be busy and make things all the time.

Last saturday, I took my friend Lyn to Tejidos Alberto, surely the best fabric shop in Granada and got some embroidered tulle and heavy dupion silk to make more collars.

I thought you would like to see the work in progress...

I like sewing while watching a movie. We saw Gosford Park this week end, I had tea and petits choux à la crème, Monchéri had beer and crisps. I kept being nervous all the time, he'd spill his beer on the expensive silk and in the end, it's me who dropped some cream on my work but no harm done.

I think I made a new friend at the fabric shop, señor Antonio. He gave me the exact composition of each fabric I bought, the pleated one is 100% silk. I love its paper wrapping which keeps it permanently pleated. Then, there is a very heavy ivory silk called mikado. I couldn't resist the embroidered ivory tulle. I only bought 25 cms of each as I don't need much material to make collars still they are very expensive fabrics but so beautiful. El señor Antonio was intrigued and asked me : ¿pero, que vas a hacer con todo eso? I told him, I'd show him when I'm finished. Actually next time, I'll take my camera with me and take a photo of el señor Antonio. I think you'll like him too and the shop of course.

would you say I'm in a bridal mood ?

ps: as we came out of the shop, I was so excited to possess all these ethereal beauties (I love fabrics to death you see), I told Lyn : know what ? this is even better than sex ! To which she answered, if they only they knew !