{"id":1067,"date":"2005-10-25T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1067"},"modified":"2005-10-25T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T15:55:00","slug":"collectors-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1067","title":{"rendered":"Collector’s Remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, woe. Last night I did successfully make a quick-stop at the home of to retrieve my lost beads that The All-Knowing Internet helped me to find (ps – Dear Internet, If you can locate my Gorillaz CD, which I have the case for, please send word via LiveJournal. xoxo Pipes).<\/p>\n

I did not, however, successfully hook up with Jill and the West Coast gang for Peruvian food or whatever the heck they were eating. Sorry guys! Thanks to misunderstandings and miserable weather and juiceless cellphones, I missed out on good company and probably — although I’ve heard no ecstatic ravings from OR about culinary delights — good eats. <\/p>\n

Today, I have a terrible case of collector’s remorse. I am really bummed about the quilt I did not buy at the Casa Loma auction. and I are going to have a swing at the Stratford exhibit this weekend, to see if there’s anything worth bidding on, but after having a really thorough trawl through the internet listing of quilts on offer, I don’t like the look of any of them. None. Not one. Sad.<\/p>\n

“Shaded Squares”<\/a> the quilt I loved, really, truly loved is gone. It sold for $900, which should be a comfort, because that’s out of my price range anyhow, but not far ENOUGH out of my price range. I was strongly debating going up to $725 and with some “extra” Christmas\/birthday financing from Mum, $900 might have been do-able. It was within reach, and I let it slip away. My justification for not going to the auction, aside from the utterly absurd entrance fee of $75, was that if I am serious about quilting, I should be able to make many extremely lovely quilts of my own with the money I’d be spending on someone else’s. But let’s get real, here. When, exactly, am I going to reach the skill level\/have the necessary scrap stash to make this?
\n<\/p>\n

Dear collector’s remorse,
\nI hate you.
\nNo love,
\nPipes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, woe. Last night I did successfully make a quick-stop at the home of to retrieve my lost beads that The All-Knowing Internet helped me to find (ps – Dear Internet, If you can locate my Gorillaz CD, which I have the case for, please send word via LiveJournal. xoxo Pipes). I did not, however, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}