What an unforeseen and wonderful free day. Free as in tickets to the Sunday matinee at the Miami City Ballet courtesy of my friend Neesy via a kind gifter on Freecycle. Free as in wandering all over Lincoln Road pedestrian mall on Miami Beach admiring the two-legged wildlife. And a kind waitron at one of my favorite just-off-Lincoln-Road restaurants gifting me with a free chocolate truffle. Followed by a free NYTimes Sunday paper gifted by one of the other patrons there as he left. And a free (only because I can't have afford a damned thing there, right now) stroll through Base, hands down my favorite clothing/music/houseware/style store EVAH. The website doesn't show the women's clothing nor most of the everchanging decor. Always inspiring. The website says it and it is true, this store re-defines retailing in its own, quirky uber hip yet accessible way. it's sort of the anti-hip, blow your mind, effortless, smack your forhead why didn't I think of that design. In three dimensions and six senses. Yeah.
And O, my girlchiks. What incredible design and knitting inspiration I found at Base. Constructed and deconstructed tunics, tank tops, sweaters...Noro sock yarn striped black flipflops, pillows, scent, and the music bar...they should hand out lobster shack bibs at the door to handle the drooling. The best CD bar ever, including Berlin, eh. Can you tell my not-ready-for-prime-time-rural-Utah internal fashionista is out of her closet??? Oah, yesssssss.
I'll do my best to sketch out a few of the ideas, but no promises as to the quality of the artwork. Let's just say that I doubt I can knit quickly enough and I know I can't knit at a fine enough gauge to make most of what I saw at Base. But I can get close...
So. What floated your boat this weekend?