Felt Like Knitting

Beautiful Building

My Project for Today

Doing a little mobile blogging this morning... Turning an upholstered chair into a throne for Vacation Bible School. Looking forward to being done with the painting so I can add the jewels!

Blog reader?

I'm glad I came back to my blog in time to find out that Google Reader is going away.  This gives me a bit of time to find a new reader.  I would have been very sad indeed to have lost all my feeds.

I have Feeddler on my phone and it works well.  But I saw that some people use Feedly, so I downloaded that as well.  I like the way Feedly looks, but it will take some time to get used to it.  I can't quite get the layout yet.

What reader do you use and what do you like about it?

Ten on Tuesday - 10 Things I Did This Weekend

  Ice cream social - yum!

Today's post will not be a problem!  We had a super busy weekend.  It was so busy that we didn't even go to all the events to which we were invited.

1. Wedding - Our friends' daughter got married and the ceremony was lovely.  I helped cut the cake and that went pretty well considering the cake had a ton of whipped cream icing and the cake itself was frozen.

2. Church - I went to church like usual yesterday, but this time I was in the pews instead of up front playing guitar.  The college guitarists are back from school and they were playing.  It felt very weird.

3. Worship planning meeting - After having lunch with Steve and a friend after church, I went to the monthly worship planning meeting.  That's always very interesting and usually a lot of fun at the same time.

4. End of year music department party - The choir, bell choir and band got together for an end of the season party.  The band plays all year long, but that didn't stop us from being at the party!  :)  While at the party, I played...

5. Cornhole - This is a fun game.  I had heard of it, but hadn't played it before.  I was very bad at first, but got better during the second game. 

6. Ice cream social - Our neighbors have an ice cream social every Memorial Day.  It's always a lot of fun and the weather was perfect this year.

7. Graduation party - We were invited to three parties, but only made it to one.   

8. Throne painting - I'm creating a prop for Vacation Bible School.  Probably more on this in a future post...

9. Book club reading:  I started July's selection - The Charm School

10. Phone conversations with my dad, my mom and one of my brothers - I always enjoy talking with my family.

What did you do this weekend?  To share your activities with the Ten on Tuesday group, go to Carole's blog.

A Profusion of Peonies

Peony bouquet

Hello!  I hope you are all having a nice long weekend.  I've missed conversing with all of you and I hope you are doing well!

I have a lot of projects I want to work on today, but this morning I decided that my peonies needed attention.  They bloomed so well this year and the blossoms were all heavy and pointing to the ground.  It's hard to enjoy a peony bloom when it has face planted into the mulch. So I trimmed most of them off the plants and I'm now enjoying them in a vase.  It feels rather luxurious to have cut so many peony blossoms!

Some of the blooms didn't open up well before they hit the ground and they were starting to turn brown on the edges.  So I've now added another project to my list - making potpourri!  It's been years since I've made potpourri and I decided to follow these instructions.  (Actually I haven't even read the article yet, but I'm using their idea of drying the petals in shallow boxes.)

Drying peony petals

I'm off to my next project - painting a chair to make it into a throne for Vacation Bible School.  What projects are keeping you busy?