2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

The amount of downsizing I did was minimal.⁵  Some things got moved around and thrown away.  Mostly I puttered.  Here are some happy Friday things: After being awake far too long yesterday, it was super hard to get out of bed today.  That didn't help my productivity.  I believe it did help my mood though, so that was good. The banner I've been working on got a little more green paint.  I'm hoping to get back to the studio tomorrow to finish it up. My friend Amy came to the studio to hang out, go for a walk, and participate in Tech Night.  We walked a little on a Winant Park trail.  Both of us decided that hills are hard, even short ones.  We might be looking for more hills to climb this summer. There were at least eight people who came to Craft Night to work on their East Kingdom Wiki pages.  I noticed that we all seemed to have a a good time and it seemed to be productive.  This morning I did a silly thing with my hair.  ...

Happy Monday things:  There are some lilies outside the studio. They are a little different from the day lilies we have around our yard at home. At the studio I was able to put a second layer of green on the top part of the banner. It looks a lot less blotchy on top, than it does on the bottom. I'm not sure how well that shows in the photo, so you'll have to take my word on it. I plan to do the rest later this week.  In the afternoon I had a pleasant walk with my friend, Amy. Part of the pond we walk around has lily pads and a purple flowering plant the Lens identified as pickerelweed.  I didn't take much time with downsizing. Another notebook has had a bunch of pages ripped out so the notebook can live on, smaller.    ☮   Currently listening to: The Book of Margery Kempe , by Margery Kempe.  Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

If you read this blog regularly, you may remember that I sometimes use a Tarot Card app to choose a card for the day.  Normally I look at it and forget about it.  Today the card was the Eight of Wands.  This is a card of momentum and purpose.  Because of the card I made a list and tried to stick to it.   Perhaps I should pretend to have this card every day.   😆 The only thing I didn't quite complete was the laundry.  I had to wait for the rest of the family's laundry to finish before I could start mine.  Mine is drying now so I can finish that in the morning.  Here are some other happy things from today: On Sundays a group of friends try to meet at a local cafe for breakfast.  The original group of people were writers.  Lately I've been using this time to do some research, mostly on medieval pilgrimages.  Today also included some SCA shenanigan planning.  It was a productive morning. From there I went to the stu...

 Happy Saturday things: This morning I didn't get going as early as I wanted.  This meant that I didn't spend the time I wanted to on my downsizing task.  What I did do was to remove the skirts from the house and put them into my car.  I meant to unload them at the studio, but they are still in the car.  I'm calling this a half step forward. At the studio I met with someone to work on the banner we are making for Pennsic, the large SCA event in Pennsylvania.  It will hang with other sheet walls outside of our Kingdom encampment.  We worked on it until mid afternoon.  We walked to a restaurant in town for lunch.  It was nice and it was a lot of focused work. ⁵ Around four in the afternoon, I headed to DIY Craft & Thrift. I helped fold and measure fabric.  I also helped to make small bundles of fabric that were supposed to be themed.  I'm only okay at joining similar fabrics together.  Towards the end of the night I had group...