quiet Saturday

I picked flowers this morning and dug another bed.  Planted more flower and vegetable seeds.  I needed this badly. It has been one of those weeks where work was a place to laugh because it either was so frustrating or made me so angry with stupidity that I wished to cry.  I need to figure out how to have enough energy at the end of the day to spend more time in the garden.  It is good for my head.

I have been working on my letters.  I need more vellum.

Croissants are raising in the refrigerator.  I have one more fold I think before I shape and bake.  This is exciting and I am really like just being slow with them.  I actually need to start bread again today.  I ran out yesterday.

I am hoping this weekend will be healing.  My shoulders are much better but there is still a lot of healing that needs to go on.  I would like to be able to do yoga without pain again.  I have stopped until I can.  I may test it this weekend.

calligraphy

I am trying to learn calligraphy.  I have a workshop in a box and some books on hold at the library.  I might get there.

I have been trying to do some designing for printing.  I really like the idea of script but I have not found anything that I really like.  The thought had been in the back of my head that I should learn calligraphy and create a script I like.  Then print what I wish too.  I have started that process.

I have mentioned that the energy levels are very low.  I am doing one letter at a time right now until those levels increase.  But I am spending energy on making bread.  I have croissant dough rising in the refrigerator.  I keep thinking I should bake and sell.  That way I could put my hands in dough more often.  I just need a few customers who wish a basket each week.  Similar to a CSA but homemade bread.  Maybe someday.

binding

The exhaustion is still here.  And then on top of it I got hit by allergies hard last night.  Topple me over and scratch my face off hard.  I took benadryl and put myself to bed.  My level of energy is so low that putting the binding on this quilt is about all the attention span I have.  Or spinning fiber.  I have soooo much fiber.

There was an article in the New York Times today about baking artisan bread.  I just ordered some of the flours they were talking about and made our Easter bread from them.  I am going to share that recipe but I might make more bread before that.  They talked about heritage flours, sourdough, and time.  All which I have but I was sitting in my office when I read this without any access.  I do believe I need to rectify this.  They talked about croissants made with sourdough and live yeasty beasties.  Maybe I will finally share that recipe.  Not what you expect if you are getting a croissant from an American bakery but yummy.

I do believe I need to mix some flour and water for the yeasty beasties!

off to the races

It was a weekend in the tent house because we went to the races.  MotoGP that is.  My Beloved and the Small Mister like their motorbikes so I bought them a Christmas present.  But Small Mister could not join my Beloved so I went to the races with him.

I admit that I took a new project with me because most of my projects are not in a very carry size stage.  

I was surprised how much I enjoyed myself.  Now, I did know some of the people and had an idea of what was happening because I have listened to a lot of races as the boyos have watched them.  I even will ask questions because that is how much I have listened too.  I like the physics of it all.

I started a new sweater in crochet that is a knit pattern.  May I say, sitting on a hill watching motorbike races is probably not the best time to convert a pattern.

This is what I had this morning but I have ripped much of it out.  I really needed a flat spot to measure.  And able to see the pattern better on my phone.  Maybe next time I will remember to print it out first!  This sweater is going to be so soft and I will probably have more spinning to do for it before it is all over.

Not a bad way to spend the weekend.  This next weekend we will be in the tent house again with family.  I am hoping to get some junk shop shopping in.  Never know what you will find.

silk dress

After our trip to Cocoa Beach, Florida last year, I had picked up some flower print fabrics to make myself dresses for the beach.  Or bicycling.  Or skateboarding.  Or ......  It will not work very well for snow boarding.  It just is a little light.  I had gotten one done using a the pattern from a dress I had picked up in Cocoa Beach.  This is using the a-line pattern I have been using for most of my dresses recently.

I finished it today after work.  I had to put it on and try out my newest skateboard.  The one with the blue totem animals.  I like how it flutters around my knees even though it is a bit long.  I could shorten it an inch or two.  I might.  I might not.

The leaves in the fabric match my helmet and socks.  I did not try to do that at all but it did make me smile.

I admit that my concentration is basically shot.  Between the pain in my shoulders and missing Small Mister, my attention span once I get home from work is very small.  I use it up all at work.  I am doing things in very small steps and my hands seem to want to be in yarn.  That is okay.

The skateboarding makes me smile too!