I’m feeling much better this morning than I was yesterday. I don’t know what happened, but I’m not complaining. 🙂 After work yesterday, I grabbed a couple of drinks on the patio at the Brewhouse; it was so beautiful outside and it felt good just to sit in the sun reading the latest New Yorker. After, I went to hang out some with M & M, and got home around 9:45ish. It was a very pleasant evening, all things considered.
M & M were our gaming buddies, and Mar made me some earrings using two blue Carcassonne meeples (Matt’s color was invariably blue when we gamed) and two brown Puerto Rico settlers. I wish that Power Grid had more interesting pieces, since it was his most recent favorite game. I have a million memories of playing Carcassonne and Puerto Rico with Matt though, and I really like the earrings. These pieces have been touched by Matt so many times; somehow that’s significant, even though he’s touched a lot of my things (and me).
I need to be crafting more, I’ve decided. It would be good for me to start and maintain an Etsy shop, I think. It would probably be gratifying, anyway, and it’s not like I enjoy making stuff or anything…. I’ve also been brainstorming some quilt ideas – I’m planning on using Matt’s clothes to make a quilt, and I think I might make it chess themed. I still need to finish the feather quilt that I started last summer though, so I have plenty of time to brainstorm (and to prepare myself mentally for cutting up all his clothes). Making things can be so therapeutic, and I know that I’ll eventually be glad to be able to snuggle up with his clothes, even though he won’t be inside them. I guess I’ll take what I can get. And I don’t think this is me holding onto the past; it feels more like me letting go of the past while acknowledging that it will always be inside me.
Anyway, this post feels rambly so I’ll stop.
No Promises This Time 
Etsy and Erin: what a great idea! And those earrings–I think that’s one of the greatest ideas I ever heard of. Tell Mar I said so. (I never did get to meet her.)
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Thank you. (this is mar). Gaming with Matt and Erin was such a big part of my life. It was a sad pleasure to make those as a memorial. I miss him.
I love the idea of the quilt. You have to hold onto some of the past – you just can’t live there.
Erin, it would use up the whole set of houses, but I could make a bracelet or necklace along these lines for you if you ever wanted. Or maybe string one on a silver chain?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/75820128/monopoly-necklace-vintage-green-wooden?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=monopoly
I’m going to keep pestering you about opening an Etsy shop. That’s how I show love. Pestering.
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Mar is so talented! What a wonderful idea!
I LOVE the idea of a chess quilt. You are so good at coming up and executing these ideas. I’m very, very jealous and in awe (just so you know). Again, I’d love to do a crafting night. It motivates me to actually do something, ha.
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