Alternate Universes, Where We Are Now, What Is Next?

 It seems that time is speeding ahead faster than I can keep up! I swear only yesterday I was ice skating and making a snowball and today I am planting a garden on a day that is too warm. I definitely lost March and April to some obscure place in my mind and it has been futile to try and recoup those lost months. It is time to get out of my head and just "do".

I attended a hand crafting retreat in Maryland last weekend that was purely fun and inspirational. The artists that were vending are so creative and kind. I spent much of the weekend on hand embroidery and applique but I also found gorgeous pieces of hand dyed wool from Katie Kriner at "The Bee and the Bear" to use in a rug that I have in mind to make. My friends and table mates were fun to be around and made for a lively weekend. One evening, we got lost trying to get out of a restaurant parking lot and I laughed so hard I had to beg my friend to stop circling the place or I would surely die laughing.

 I regrettably had to turn down an invitation from Audrey to accompany her, Tess, and Violet to Cape Charles this weekend.  There is just too much to do in the garden AND I have a workshop to run that begins on Monday for our rug hooking guild. We have overnight guests staying here for the workshop and  the rooms upstairs need freshening as well. So, I spent last evening getting seeds and peppers into the ground and potting flowers. Thank goodness it stays light outside until 8:00pm.

I am very excited about the rug hooking workshop. It has been months in the planning and we have a nice project lined up for our members. Kay's husband is a wonderful woodworker. He crafted lovely boxes for us that we then painted and antiqued. We designed seven, simple hooked mat patterns to fit on the lids and packaged everything up as a kit. It includes a box of their color choice, a piece of serged linen, transfer fabric, and the patterns. Lunches will be catered and we have a fun game to play along with door prizes. Hopefully I will have time to sit and hook and enjoy the company of so many talented ladies. We have almost every member of our guild attending with forty-three women signed up!

Life remains busy after this weekend but we will cross that bridge when we get to it. 

We offered the boxes in four color choices. They are a great size for storing all sorts of things.  I will use mine for storing seeds packets.