MayDay

I'm having a great weekend. What am I doing? NOTHING! HOORAY! No alarm clock! No responsibilities! I've had something to do every day for a long time - even on the cruise, I had to hurry up and get to the buffet! Heaven forbid I'd miss one!

So I'm at least doing nothing structured. I took a long walk this morning when the sun finally came out - so that's my "activity points" for the day. I'm doing laundry and hanging it on my new clothesline. I've signed up to do a swap on Ravelry.com (the most wonderful crochet & knitting website ever!) - so I'm planning which 9" square patterns I want to use.

I worked on my Moorish Mosaic afghan yesterday. LOVELY! While taking the picture, I realized that one of my octagons was really a ?(what's the word for nine-agon). The brown one. So I had to take out all the brown and redo it. much better! It just makes me smile - even though all the motifs aren't exactly the same size, that will work out when I put it together.




Jes has commissioned me to try and come up with her bridal bouquet out of crochet. Here's one I tried - called "Mumsy." I think a bunch of these together would make a very nice, fluffy bouquet. Suggestions welcome. In addition to her bouquet, she's looking for crafty, relatively inexpensive, DIY ideas for table centerpieces. Also, suggestions welcome. Ramona and Cindy are also on the "Crafty Ideas Committee."


I am going to Raleigh this coming weekend (Friday through Sunday) for Weight Watchers "Basic Leader Skills" training where I will learn to be a WW Leader. I've been a WW Receptionist since last fall, and I enjoy it. It does help keep me on track and accountable - so I won't let my weight creep back up. I look forward to being a Leader. Fingers crossed all goes well.

I have to take a "Before" picture to the training. D'ya think this is TOO before? I think I was a very cute kindergartner - back in the days before color film (much less digital).



This is the picture I'm using. It's not very good - I pretty much avoided the camera then. Didn't want to be photographed. Somehow, being overweight is much worse when you look at a picture of yourself. You can kinda lie to the mirror, but a photo in hand is hard to explain away.




SO! That's my May update. I am very glad to have a weekend to crochet and catch up on shows on my DVR. Here's hoping next weekend goes smoothly - then the next weekend is a THREE-DAY WEEKEND! HOORAY!!!! I'm planning another NOTHING weekend. Do I know how to live-it-up, or WHAT!