Vacation: Day Seven

It's amazing what I accomplished on my last day of vacation!

In addition to packing up the car, I finished crocheting another scarf in Red Heart's Boutique Sashay Metallic, as well as finishing reading a magazine. Before heading out of town, we stopped and visited a tall ship that was in town for the week, the El Galleon, from Spain.

Vacation: Day Six

Oh blessed day six, I finally finished reading the book that's been torturing me!

"The Assassin's Riddle" seemed like such a promising book to start with, but it took half the book to get interesting! Now, I can handle slow starts - I read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - but half a book?!? After that, it moved along quite well, and then, in the last three pages, it made me cry!

Vacation: Day Five

On day five of vacation I accomplished more of the same.

I crocheted another beaded necklace - this one is about 13 inches around, I'm getting better - and I made a bunch of bottle cap earrings. One thing that I did do that was different, I made a filigree wire bracelet. I like it and want to make more - they can only get better with practice.

Vacation: Day Four

It may not seem like much, but I did get something accomplished on my fourth day of vacation.

I completed reading a magazine, but more importantly, I crocheted a beaded necklace. I stayed up late last night working on it, and it's quite intricate for a first time thing. I like it, but there is something wrong with it - the pattern says it should be 15 inches long, and it's only 11. Maybe I'll make another one, but with a bigger hook.

Vacation: Day Three

How unproductive was my third day of vacation? I didn't finish reading a book, or even a magazine, but I did get some stuff done.

I crocheted a scarf out of Red Heart's Boutique Sashay Metallic and two more motifs for a sachet. I also made two more rings out of vintage earrings, and three sets of bottle cap earrings. I stopped early with those because it was late, and they involve making a lot of noise.

Vacation: Day Two

My second day of vacation provided more good stuff. I finished reading a book and a magazine, I made three rings out of vintage earrings, and I crocheted two motifs, which, when put together, will make a sachet.

The book was okay. It was "Face Down Upon an Herbal," the second book in the Lady Appleton series. I didn't like how one of the characters had developed from the last book. The rings turned out pretty well, and were rather easy to make. I hope to get a bunch of those made for the craft show in November, as well as some sachets. I made a bunch of those for a swap at Silver Bella a few years ago, and while I was putting the finishing touches on them at the group dinner before the swap period, someone asked me if I was selling them. Well, hopefully I will be at the craft show. I just need to get to work!

Vacation: Day One

On our first full day of vacation, I feel like I accomplished something. I finished the book I started reading yesterday, "Face Down in a Marrow-Bone Pie," and I finished one of the magazines that I had brought with me to catch up on.

I enjoyed the book. The heroine was too forward thinking for her day, but it wasn't too annoying. Sometimes, in the Regency era romances that I read, the heroine is too much like ladies of our century, and it annoys me. I read those types of books because of the romance, not how head-strong and independent the heroine is. No, I don't want them to be simpering or wilting violets, but I do want them to need the hero. The book also helped to remind me of my interest back in college of using herbs and natrural remedies, which I never did more than by a book about, but really wanted to read. Maybe I'll try to find it and see what I can learn.
I also did a tiny bit of crafting while on the beach - flaring out bottle caps and starting to crochet a sachet. I forgot to bring scissors, so I couldn't complete very much of the sachet. Overall, a good day.