One glorious night as the sun was making a down ward dip and the traffic on the street below thinned out to a mere muffle I was shuffling in my handbag for my keys. At my bedroom door, eyes still on my fumbling hands my tip toes thumped into something hard. Huh. What was this odd shaped plastic looking box with a handle atop? Now, my flat mate Nathalie usual puts things at or around my bedroom door entrance, once in it's long live I'm sure this entrance had been adorned with stain glass or at least a name plate-think Dick Tracy's office, moulding and all-but for Nat it was a settling ground for things to bring to my attention.
These dropped items could tend to house mate matters; the bill for last month's utilities, a bucket I'd lent her,mail or delightful trinkets and treasures; old candles, some found rad magazine, rocks that I had left in her car, or even once a pair of sexy black panties that had hung unclaimed for a week in the communal bathroom on the shower stall's handle! (Immediately upon coming home to the black stank, I stepped across the wide tiled hall into the kitchen, grabbed a napkin, threw the panties in the trash and knocked hard on Nat's door to be heard over the stereo and across the 85 foot room and told her in a stearn voice grinning, "You really thought those panties were mine!" We had a good chuckle then and there thinking that between the four of us who use the shower someone was sly enough to get by in there! Not as if I ever see anyone in the bathroom-seriously in the 5 months I've lived at Arlington once have I seen anyone else in the bathroom at the same time-but that they didn't go in to the bathroom since to notice remnants of their action. Can you guess the other two flat mates are dudes?) Regardless, what I found inside the plastic box with a handle atop this particular fateful night was a sewing machine!!! Nathaile had dug it out of the back storage room in one of the other studios and brought it to me and now I'm bursting at the seams to alter all my flea market finds :-)
This is my first hem and take in job....
