crowdog66 ◾ ◾ An unexpected encounter and a beautiful altar cloth

I did a lot today (details in my work log later on), but a couple of things stand out.

1) When I went to Mitchell Fabrics on Main Street (in a rather seedy area of town) to pick up the cord for the handfasting, I was sent down to the basement to where they keep the Braided Cord Department. There I was helped by a young lady who, as she was wrapping up the cord, playfully asked: "So, watcha makin'?"

I told her what it was for.

She was surprised and delighted to find out that I'm a marriage commissioner. Turns out she's been looking everywhere for someone willing to officiate a Shinto wedding (the nearest Shinto priest being in Vancouver). I told her that I'd be willing to attempt it providing that doing so offered no disrespect to the faith, which she assured me that it does not, and since she's a practitioner of Shinto herself I hope she would know. I gave her my card. They've booked the wedding for 2010 so hopefully I'll hear from them before then. :-)

2) On my way upstairs to pay for the cord I lingered near a collection of bolts of fabric, half in mind to find an altar cloth appropriate to a wedding ceremony. What I came across was this.

$14.95 per meter, but oh, so lovely. I snapped it up, deciding that since I don't get down to Mitchell that often (in fact this was my first time there), I'd might as well strike while the iron was hot.

Now that I have a beautifully polished silver chalice and red and white candles to go on top of it, it's going to look mahhhhhhvelous.