Day 1 - Queens Birthday Long Weekend

It's the Queen's Birthday long weekend! Day 1 has already been extremely productive as I've written up a a long list of things I want to get done over the next three days (half of which are neglected chores). So the day so far has been filled with cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning, BUTI was able to get two books stitched up in preparation for the bindery tomorrow. (JW, your book is coming!) Other then that, there's a list of crafty projects I've put on the list which I want to get started (finished?) over the next few days.

Earlier this week, I took a trip into town on my lunch break to brave the mid year sales. Unfortunately, the queues were tremendous and the ladies were pushy, and there wasn't anything on sale that I was willing to go into combat for. So instead, I walked around town and a street flyer ended up in my hands promoting Morris and Son's wool sale ("Up to 80% off!"). I thought I'd go have a look... and ended up walking away with two bags of these!

There went half my weekly budget!

With so many of my friends pregnant/bearing newborns, I justified the purchase by thinking that I'd have a 50% chance of using this beautiful blue Cleckheaton wool. I'm also having dinner next week with a darling friend of mine who gave birth to an adorable little boy only a few months ago. Hence the beginning of a baby blanket project to be completed by COB Queen's Birthday.

On top of that, I also want to get at least ONE lace edging out by the end of the weekend. It'll be a mean feat if I'm able to get all of the above achieved by bed time Monday, but I'm spurring myself on with Tony's mantra -
DEFY the odds... Set a NEW standard... STEP UP!!!"