cherry red embroidery silk is always a joy to have in one's sewing box. and you're right, it would look lovely twisted into cord and used for the tassely bits.
i distinguish depression from your common or garden variety sadness by it's beautiful red and purple varigated foliage, and the fact that it is suffocating me. his tallness now thinks that i secretly don't want to move in with him (but he is an idiot, and thinks that i secretly don't love him, too. i keep telling him, i would not make gooseberry fool at 1am for someone i didn't adore!)
time for invigorating peppermint footbath, and extensive moiturising, and lots of sleep.