I love the few bank holiday weekends we have in this country, there's something wonderfully optimistic about the promise of a Long Weekend, the planning, the hopeful second guessing of the weather. Similar to Easter, the weather in our part of the country for the May Day weekend was incredibly mixed. We had some warm bits, cold bits, cloudy bits, sunny bits and quite a lot of down right wet bits. We did venture out in the wet bits, but for quite a bit of it we stayed pyjamma-ed and indoors doing leisurely weekendy things. Lots of crafting and playing, which I have to say I really enjoyed for the most part, although clearing up after the painting and glitter session was not too much fun.
The Little People settled for beads and Lego.
And I split my time between hooking and crochet.
I finished my hooked heart design which I'm really pleased with, and can't wait to get it framed. I've still got quite a bit of wool left so I'm planning on making a matching picture with a hen in the centre.
And I did five whole stripes on my ripple blanket which is more than I've managed in ages. I think there's about 43 stripes now so I'm almost half way and still enjoying it very much, especially as it's big enough now for me to snuggle under it while I work on it.
My weekend also included ::
12.5 pages of my book club novel read (need to get a move on)
25.5 cups of tea (at least)
1 pub lunch (yummy)
3.5 too many glasses of wine (hic)
2 picnics (1 wet, 1 dry)
1 country walk (6 miles in the rain)
2 jaunts round town (busy busy)
3 chaotic supermarket trips (also busy busy)
1 visit to the garden centre (feeling inspired to grow stuff)
1 street party (unexpected and fun)
3 loads of laundry (not so much fun)
1 film watched (Alvin and the Chipmunks)
1 afternoon nap (zzzzzzzzzzz)
2 log fires lit (cosy)
1 leisurely soak in the bath (ahhhhhhhhhh)
The fun never ends in our house.
I keep on going back and looking at this ripple blanket, it's so beautiful......... the colours have just the right amount of zinginess.......... and they make me feel happy!
Posted by: vanessa | May 08, 2008 at 04:45 PM
Hi Lucy, Thank you for your kind comments left on my blog, and yes, I am back! Ok; 12.5 pages of your book club novel read -I suggest you log on to Amazon, read up on some reviews and then just bluff your way though at your book club night ;o) -
3.5 too many glasses of wine (there is never such as thing as too much wine (oh, unless you are on holiday in Portugal with 3 children....refer to today's News/Daily Mail!!!!)
3 chaotic supermarket trips (I sometimes feel all we need to do is pay salary direct to Tesco!!) 1 visit to the garden centre (very jealous, my boys won't let me even contemplate a trip!)
1 street party (I hope you didn't embarass yourself!)
3 loads of laundry (oh, I know that feeling so, so well!) 1 film watched (Alvin and the Chipmunks - haven't seen that one.... yet!)
2 log fires lit (lucky you)1 leisurely soak in the bath Bliss, what a super weekend. Kathyx
Posted by: kathy | May 06, 2008 at 08:33 PM
How did you manage to fit it all in, especially 25.5 cups of tea! I'm suprised you didn't spend more time in the bathroom! Fi x
Posted by: MarmaladeRose | May 06, 2008 at 07:18 PM
I love the hooked heart design and the choice of colours. I also think your ripple blanket is wonderful. My weekend went by in a flash and I can hardly remember what I did!
Posted by: simone | May 06, 2008 at 02:28 PM
Sounds pretty much like our weekend, except for the street party!
I managed to cause World War 3 between my two by making a lego house (my usual!) which they then scrapped over for an eternity.
I also managed to get from page 37 to page 275 of my book group book thanks to an extra long lie in on Monday!
Julia x
Posted by: julia | May 06, 2008 at 01:27 PM