For some reason (and, oh, I am fascinated by what triggers such ideas!) I suddenly wanted to somehow ‘wear a painting’. After some delightful to’ing and fro’ing of thought and action I used as models the two birds painted on a silk piano shawl and painted them, in acrylics, on a square of linen about nine by nine inches. Much more to’ing and fro’ing to decide how to ‘wear’ them. Finally a pair of green hemp shorts from the fabric stash got chosen as the material but, in the midst of cutting them up to make them into just fabric, their purse-like properties got put into play. Half of the shorts is back in the stash. The other half got sewn up top and bottom and middle, the pocket opening used as opening of the purse (I needed to enlarge it slightly and to remove the lining, of course), a woven leather belt got threaded through the back belt loop and joined in a loop. The painting of the birds was sewn to the front. The belt makes quite a comfortable shoulder strap and the purse hangs nicely across my left hip. It is easy to access and the back pocket with its security button holds tape measure and hand balm.