Morning Mug 2
Today’s mug is my favorite for the past couple of years. Oddly enough, I bought this cool mug at cutesy Daisy Kingdom in Portland, Oregon. I think it was about 3 1/2 years ago. Or was it 2 1/2? How time flies…..
Spring Quilt Market was in Portland, the first time it had been on the West Coast in at least six years. I was thinking of starting a line of patterns, and thought it would be the ideal chance to “check things out” without incredible expense. So my best friend Marie and I went to Portland! We both fell in love with the city…the not-so-tall old brick buildings reminded both of us of the East Coast cities we love. We stayed at this incredible hotel that we lucked into thanks to expedia or one of those low-rate on-line reservation deals; the Hotel Lucia is a “boutique” hotel, and is probably the nicest place I’ve stayed in the past decade! Plus, they told us if we wanted to come back to just skip Expedia and they’d give us the same rate again…Waaaaaay below official price! They even had a “pillow menu” so you could pick firm, medium, soft (all down) or hypo-allergenic!!!
While there, in addition to going to Market, we did a bit of shopping (duh) for fabric, books, and at the heavenly Whole Foods. You have to understand that at the time, I lived (and Marie still lives) on rural San Juan Island. Our “big” grocery would fit in the corner of most suburban grocery stores, and selection was limited, though they were doing better on bringing in the natural and organic foods in the past few years. Anyway, I had seen the Mexican Modernists exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum a few months earlier, fallen in love with some of Frieda Kahlo’s lesser known works, and was reading about her and husband Diego Rivera when I fell in love with his calla lilies. Then, we walk into what is usually the terminally cutesy Daisy Kingdom store (which also has way cool bridal fabrics…tulles, sheers, laces) and there was this mug.
So I love the mug because of the calla lilies, and that trip, because it reminds me of going places with Marie. Now we e-mail a lot, and are saving to meet at Festival in Houston next year (neither of us could afford it this year….so we’re already saving up…).