My World Map

Wherein you see I had a really good night tonight. I got to go swimming with Raven and then out to BP's to enjoy a small appetizer and the company of some good friends. It was on coming home that I discovered my picture(this has a long story which will be gotten to in a bit) had large chunks of glass broken and in dire need of repair. Sigh!

The history of the picture comes from when I was living with 2 other fabulous babes in a place we fondly called Castle Anthrax. Okay the name came a little later when there was a total of 5 girls living there but it still begins this story. We had just moved in and since the three of us girls were all going to University our friends decided to give us some housewarming gifts. I still think it was because all three of us were single and our male friends wanted to impress us with their generosity. Which they did and the gifts were graciously accepted. The two gifts received were a television set (since none of had one and every house has to have a television!) and this gorgeous picture of the world from 1878 (I may have the date wrong but the era is around then) as a map. It was gold and very detailed and I loved it.

The three of us decided that to be fair we should divvy the gifts up since one of us was smart enough to foresee that we were unlikely to spend the rest of our lives together. This smart one by the way was Raven. Yes I have known her for oh about 17 years now. Yikes we are old. haha. Anyway I believe she was the one who suggested that the gifts be divided as such. 2 gifts 3 people. The first one to move out of the house would forfeit one of the gifts. It so happened that Raven was the first one to move out. That left Miss Contrary and I with the two remaining gifts. She decided that she would rather have the TV and I decided that I rather liked the picture. That picture of the 1878 map of the world has gone through 15 years of my life with me. It has been featured in every living room I have ever had. Which means it has gone through six moves since I first acquired it.

Now alas it has been put out to the garage until I can get it to a framer and have the glass replaced. I never realized it before but the glass was part of the frame for the picture. I can't remember the word the use for it but when a picture is too small and the frame is too large they can put in another square or rectangle piece to help frame the picture. This picture the glass actually had that right on it and so now you can see the cardboard behind the world map. Sigh! I wish we had money so I could fix it tomorrow. The worst thing is because I can not keep it in the house (Not with two kids and soon a baby) I know eventually it will be forgotten and I won't remember it until we move again. (Which if we are lucky won't be for many many years). So I am a sad Panther. I am not really sure what happened but suffice it to say at least neither child was hurt and I only had a small amount of glass to clean up.

Oh at least my sewing creativity has been good lately. I finished the face huggers... er cradle covers for Auntie Ski. I fixed the bottom of my hem for my white shift and I only need to put elastic into a pair of pants that I want to wear at Quad War if I get my gate dress dirty. So yeah all in all it was a good two days. Despite the heat and the loss of my World Map. Hopefully the weekend will also be a good one.