catch up

The internet was down just as I was to blog...so I did some morning things like finally go to the pharmacy.  What a lovely lady...of course whoever was in the room now knows the liquid had gone from green to brown...but now everyone on the reading area also knows.  Dr J says I am losing weight...well that is one way to do it... so I am now sipping electrolytes and taking meds 2x a day.  I think when I jumped back into trying to eat...not a good think....I will be great friends with the Jok women for that is what they both said... no fruit/veg/sticky rice...only rice soup until return to  solid.  I didn't do class today..but I will tomorrow,.  So back to yesterday...I did two colages.....I am frustrated when I try to put in individual pictures...so that must wait until I am less weak..and with more patience.
I am on a quest for patches of hilltribe material so yesterday afternoon...I went off the the part of the morning market dedicated to the tribe folks.   When I got there, I was trying to stand off to the side so I could get my barrings and not be in the way.  Along came this woman....who had another idea

Where I was standing was next to the blue plastic curtain... and that was not a good think...she had just made a sale and was still clutching the 20bt and screaming at me to move my butt.   I of course started snapping and that did not make her happy.... I moved and she plopped down her two baskets that she was carrying with a stick on her shoulder.  I moved to the other side of the isle...and she gave new meaning to invisible...I almost broke into cellophane man....she was hawking to those around and did not appear to being doing well.... her only "sale" was to give a piece of orange to the little boy.  Not sure the mother wanted him to have it...but she new better than to refuse.

I have many pictures of the colors of the hill tribe market and there did not appear to be lots of scraps...I did not try to barter... but at first pass...the woman wanted 30 bt (about $1) for one square.

This appears to be the general market for the hill tribe folks.  They sell pompoms in bulk by the baga and by color..in pages.  There is some yarn...which I thought they use in the stitching and thread.  the pieces are in the center...When I see how cold itis.... this is sent with warmth....