18 Wednesday Oct 2017
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When the TSA staff at airport security ask, “What’s in the suitcase?”, you might have a think before replying, “Mushrooms. Special ones.”
Gorgeous fused-glass mushrooms made by my sister. Wrapped in about a gazillion feet of bubblewrap. Unwrapped at every security checkpoint between California and Scotland.
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Those are cool!! Worth the security hassle I’d say? Does your sister sell them?
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My sister makes incredible glass items, but you have to be family or friends to get your hands on them. (If she sold them, she’d have to charge a king’s ransom.) Kind of like that 15-foot redwood slab table my brother made, and which I’ve been trying to figure out how to slip into my luggage…
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Fabulous fungi!! 😉
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One sister has these scattered around her garden and it’s like fairyland.
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They are so beautiful! So is the table…wow.
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Yeah, that table is absolutely spectacular. My brother is a woodworker who (luckily) has a great day job to finance his wood hoard.
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They are very beautiful!
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I know! It’s a little depressing to realize how much MORE creative and talented my younger siblings are.
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Beautiful. I think your mistake was saying, “Magic mushrooms.”
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I carefully and consciously did NOT say “Magic”, but somehow that word just hung out there anyway.
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As it does. That’s why it’s magic.
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They ARE special! What gorgeous, beautiful mushrooms. Amazing they survived all of the unwrappings!
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And even MORE amazing that they survived my (numerous and increasingly inept) re-wrapping!
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They are very special mushrooms. I’m glad they survived flying.
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It’s the perfect gift—every time I see them in my garden, I’m back with my sisters. Now that really is “magic” mushrooms.
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Those are gorgeous.
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Thanks! I’m in awe of my siblings’ creativity and talent. (And a bit jealous!)
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Somehow seeing them on Barbara’s post makes them seem even MORE special ! Thanks for the compliments.
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I’ve had to explain to several people (who asked where they could get your mushrooms) that you’ll be keeping that day job. But I REALLY feel so lucky!
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Ha! Magic mushrooms…
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You know, I really, really consciously avoided saying the “magic” part. But somehow it was just out there anyway!
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They are gorgeous. I love how they catch the light. Your family is very talented.
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The rest of them certainly are amazingly talented. And lucky me—I get to benefit from that!
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You yell amazing stories and write! That is a talent!!
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Oops, I mean tell but then perhaps you sometimes yell your stories. I know in my family we have to yell to be heard over all the others talking. LOL
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They are gorgeous, Barbara. we all have different talents, you know… yours is your writing… oh, and you sense of humour!!
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They are gorgeous! Go your sister!! 😀
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They are gorgeous. I’d put up with the hassle at security for the cance to bring a couple home 🙂
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Reminds me of the time friends in N Ireland asked us to take her wedding dress back to the UK…we had it packed in a flat cardboard box. Stopped at North/South border (yes, it was pre EU) and had to unpack box …I think they thought it was a cache of Armalite rifles (it DID look suspicious)
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