PORTLANDIA.

Also known as Portland Maine.  I just spent five days there at an art workshop called Tangle U, with 120 tanglers from 6 countries (including Australia and Taiwan).  I am exhausted and do not want to leave my house again for a good six months!  Not much of a traveler.  But this was oh-so-worth-it.

Below is the sole project I finished while there.

I brought home several other projects to finish, and expect to be busy for quite a while.  It was great to reconnect with people and get inspired by their work.

But then there was also this.  I ran into a convenience store, having let myself get far too thirsty, to reluctantly buy some bottled water (hate buying those plastic bottles) and instead stopped dead in my tracks when I saw:

What???!!!

Such an obvious solution!  Why haven't I ever seen this before?  Why don't all stores have these, rather than the awful plastic bottles?  Of course I bought it immediately.

Best solution is to carry my own reusable bottle, but that's not always possible.  This would be my next go-to idea, if I could only find these in my home state.

Spread the word, please.

And now back to catching up on emails and unpacking.  OMG, it's good to be home.

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