My weekend wrap-up

Have you ever noticed that events you like to attend all seem to fall on the same weekend? You can go weeks without an opportunity to go out and do something fun and/or fulfilling only to find all the things you want to do happen on the same weekend, leaving the others empty and needing to be filled? Happens to me ALL the TIME!

If I plan something I want to do, suddenly there are three or four things I want to do at the same time or at an overlapping time or just on the same weekend... then I have to make choices. This weekend was sort of like that. I chose two of the several things I could have done. The next two weekends? Nuttin' honey!

The two events I attended were planned well in advance of the weekend and I knew it would be busy. These were things I really wanted to do, so while I am one tired puppy, I had a lot of fun! I was also invited to go to the movies with some friends on Sunday afternoon. Sadly, I had to decline because one more thing would have been one thing too many!

I also have no pictures, except of one sock



which I finished last night. Second to be cast on this evening, if I don't fall asleep!

As I was saying - This weekend was filled with events I wanted to attend and DID!

Saturday, after some cleaning and grocery shopping, I prepared my supplies for a night out with my Creative Memories rep. She was a fabulous room at her home set aside for cropping and scrapping. Almost every month, she has a get together and invites her customers to enjoy some uninterrupted cropping time. Since this is about the only time I get to sit and scrapbook, I love to go. For this month's Crop, we all brought dinner contributions. We cropped and chatted and ate and relaxed and enjoyed ourselves from 4 - 10 pm!

This left me a little bit tired for my Sunday plan - the 19th Put Together Event for The Handmade Afghans to Thank our Armed Forces Project (aka HAP). Over 65 people participated in person today with many, many more contributing supplies for the event. Over 19,000 6"x9" rectangles were available for the volunteers to lay out afghans for assembly by even more volunteers. Each afghan requires 49 rectangles and the color combinations and designs were as diverse as the group! It was a fabulous day and the energy of the room kept me going through my tired spell. I very reluctantly got out of bed at 7 AM (am NOT an early weekend riser!) to get on the road in time to get there to help. From 9 AM - 3 PM, the tireless volunteers designed 252 afghans to be crocheted together, washed, folded and delivered to a number of military medical facilities.

It is a well-organized event, an all volunteer, grass-roots group of men and women putting together something special for our wounded warriors.

If you feel so inclined, help is always needed - from knitters and crocheters to designers; to cooks and rectangle checkers and table setters and more. Check it out at the link above or on my sidebar.

Hope your weekend was all it could be! Mine was!

It's been a day...

And it was delightful to come home to a Secret Pal package!

After shuttling son to work, mom to the doctor, mom to the store, son from work and working in between at my real job... I was one tired blogger.

But - I want to share the lovelies sent to me by my Secret Pal 12 spoiler:



Yarn, pattern and needles to make Monkey Socks. Yogi Tea Green Tea and an article about the efficacy of the tea. Fabulous candy (all consumed!). Needle protectors and (not pictured) a cute, cute notepad. Somehow, the notepad missed its photo op!

It helped brighten my day. Thank you, SP12 spoiler. You are doing a grand job!

Oh, and my pal asked if I remember Laugh In! I say, "You bet your sweet bippy, I do!"

SP12 Week 5

Questions, questions, questions... they do make me think.

For Week 5, our SP12 hostesses want to know:

1) Where is your favorite place to go for vacation/holiday?
2) Where is one place you’d like to go?

My first reaction to these questions? I don't know and I don't know!

Thinking a little harder:

1) My favorite place to go on vacation is nowhere. I'd really rather just stay home. I like places I've been and some I'd like to see again, but I hate the getting ready and the remembering things and the anxiety and the stress of planning. When I have time off, I'd prefer just be to where I could reach for whatever I wanted and get it, rather than to remember where I left it 200 miles away, at home!

2) If I were to go somewhere - I'd like to go to Ireland and visit places I haven't seen and maybe meet a relative or two still living there. My sister and I went in 1976 when we were teenagers and took a tour of various places in the South of Ireland. We flew into Shannon and took a motor coach tour down and back up to Dublin and flew out of Dublin. I'd like to see the North and the Northwest of Ireland and meet some cousins on my mother's side that still live in Derry and Belfast.