Get your Easter Bonnet on
I have got to make one of these for myself! I'll have the perfect chance to during the Easter bonnet decorating class I'm going to give. Hopefully someone will sign up for it. I've ordered such fun embellishments for them. Tiny little bird houses, more butterflies and birds, and more flowers too.
This is my more elegant version of an Easter bonnet. One of the many things I wanted to become at some point in my life is a milliner. I love hats. All kinds of hats. Silly hats, elegant hats, useful hats, outrageous hats, and historical hats.
Look what came in the mail yesterday from Michelle Sews!!! She crocheted them herself. I have been wanting a pair of slippers and there could be no slipper more perfect for me than a mary jane style. Which I didn't know existed. How did she know what size to make them? (Maybe from reading all about my difficult feet?)
Wait, here's a better view of them. Except that my socks don't match them. Look how pretty they are! You can read about where she got the pattern from on her blog. Thank you Michelle! That was the most thoughtful surprise ever!We don't have any decaf coffee left this morning which means I'm drinking the fully loaded cuppa. You may have already surmised that I am not exactly the cleanest living health nut, what with all the beer I drink. So it may surprise you to know that I have pretty faithfully followed at least one of my cardiologist's strictures: no more than one cup of caffeinated beverage a day. I like to drink many cups of coffee every day. But it's true that when I drink more than one cup, the palpitations really become obnoxious. So we make a 2/3 decaf, 1/3 cafeinated brew every morning so that I can drink three cups of coffee yet only get the impact of roughly one cup of caffeine. Before you get all scientific on me and tell me how decaf has some caffeine in it, therefore making my math wrong: DON'T. It works.
Don't you love coming to some one's blog just to hear them drone on and on about what their cardiologist has told them not to do?
Here's a question I've been mulling over: what is the best material to make my raised beds out of? I am mulling over this. I love wood, but living in the Pacific North West means that it will decompose within a couple of years. I thought about "Trex",the synthetic wood that lasts forever, but I think it's even more expensive than wood. It's actually a better environmental choice because they recycle plastics to make it. I've thought about cinder blocks, but that seems like it also might be more expensive than I'd like. (But with the cinder blocks I'd get to use mortar which would be lots of fun.) The reason why expense is a big concern is that I am going to be making MANY beds.
If anyone has a favorite material for their raised beds, please tell me about it and why you like it. Also, if anyone has had luck planting potatoes in barrels, please tell me what your tricks are.
Here's another fun question for you all on this marvellous Sunday morning: If you had to choose between getting killed by a bear, or killed by a shark, which would you choose, and why?
That question makes me think of my friend Cam who is one of the funniest loveliest people I know. We worked together at Mulberry Neckwear as design assistants and spent a lot of time asking each other these macabre questions. We are Capricorn sisters. Capricorns ROCK, in case you didn't already know that.
I would choose to get killed by the shark because you would drown and bleed to death so fast you probably wouldn't have time to feel too much. If you didn't naturally drown, you could make yourself drown if there didn't seem like a chance to escape.
That's kind of cheating though since I don't swim in the ocean, ever, my chances of getting killed by a bear are actually much greater.
Happy Sunday!
