ode to purple...

much to my 10 year old daughters horror

i hate the color purple!

i am sorry if you are deeply in love with the color purple.

{no.  not the movie}

but it is not my thing.  i don.t wear it.  i don.t write with it.  i don.t paint with it.

i don.t eat purple food.  ok, that.s not entirely true...i like purple grapes.

{can you see those hearts on my shirt?  i didn.t notice that sneaky purple one that hid there amongst all the other hearts...until...i was already home with the shirt in my bag.  
but this, my dear friends, is about all the purple you will ever see on chrissy.}

so when this dear artistic british chum of mine gave her 

shout out for her creative color challenge..i was clearly not thinking when i admitted my loathing for purple. what part about "challenge" was i missing?  

of course miss louise was going to choose the color that would push my limits.  and that she did.  i bought purple paints and purple papers and 

purple wurple shmurple but nothing was working.

until
i stuck some purple thread into my 30 year old bernina nova sewing machine.

ahhhhhhhh!!! (insert trumpets and sounds of heavenly angels singing)

i started to "draw" with my needle. no rhyme or reason...just drawing.
 i think it took about 2.4 seconds for me to fall in love.
this is theraputic!  this is awesome!  this is fun!  this is creative!

oh purple i love you!
the end result was the most beautiful, swirly, freeflowing, funky purple tree that has ever been made on the face of this big ol' universe!!!

{click to see the perfectly imperfect purple stiches a tad better}

of course no tree of love is complete without a tenderly carved (or sewn) heart

declaring the adoration of the newly devoted pair

chrissy + purple

=

true 

love

forever

thanks louise for a wonderful challenge 

and thank you purple for opening a door to a splendid new art form that i clearly would not have discovered without you!

cultivate something challenging this weekend