I hope you guys had a great weekend. Our started off with a social bike ride on Saturday. My husband does these quite often but this was my first time and I was a bit excited but worried about lagging behind. We went out to East Austin with a small group and rode around various roads, most had bike lanes, making our way to the Walnut Creek Trail. It was a lot of fun to be out and about and it really is amazing how much you get to see when you are on a bike and not zooming by on your car. We did almost 11 miles and I think I’m ready for my next ride!
On to book happenings, I did go to BookPeople but didn’t find the magazine I was looking for but I did find Book Page. It had been ages since I’ve seen an actual copy of this. So excited and can’t wait to read the book reviews. But the best bookish find was actually at Joann’s craft store. They had all kinds of cute note cards, calendars, bags, etc. in celebration of Simplicity Pattern’s 90th Anniversary. I had to have this bookmark. Isn’t it wonderful?
My mom used to be a seamstress and she sewed all of my clothes for the longest time. I still have some of my special occasion dresses she made me because I just can’t part with them. I have such great memories of us going to Cloth World and Hancock Fabrics and sitting at the tables with the pattern books and finding patterns for new clothes.
It’s funny to me now that I don’t cook, despite my dad being a chef, and I can’t sew despite my mom being a seamstress yet I have these dreams of cooking fabulous meals and sewing beautiful creations but I guess that’s where my crafty spirit comes from right?
Anyway, finding that bookmark made my day and I’m so glad I can add it to my collection.
I don’t know how much reading I’ll do the rest of the weekend because we’ve started watching Bosch and we’re hooked. Hope you have a great start of the week!
Oooh, just love that bookmark!! I think a special trip to JoAnn’s is in order 🙂
Sounds like your bike ride was a great way to exercise and enjoy the process! I wonder if there is a crafty gene?
Great bookmark!
Enjoy the nice weather. Yes, it’s true that you see more when biking or walking.
That IS a cool bookmark!
I know what you mean about the sewing thing. My mom sews but I don’t. I see cool sewing projects it would be fun to create, and I keep thinking that one of these days I need to get her to teach me the basics since eventually (albeit 20-30 years from now) she won’t be able to sew for me. But since it’s so easy just to get her to do things I haven’t made it a priority. I know that one day that’s going to come back to bite me big time, since I don’t know what I’ll do without her hemming services. My legs are just a wee bit long for regular length pants, so I have to buy longs and then I have her hem them. She also has hemmed quite a few skirts/dresses for me to make them be the right length, and growing up made quite a few church dresses for me. I don’t know what I’ll do without her skills (which is why I really need to get on learning how to do it myself!).
I love bike rides! Yours sounds like it was a lot fun. Enjoy it before it gets too hot, though! 🙂
The social bike ride sounds like so much fun, Iliana! I am glad you were able to go. I haven’t been on a bicycle in so long. I have only seen the pilot episode of Bosch, which I enjoyed. I need to watch the actual show now! My husband has seen it and really liked it.
I can’t sew and I don’t care for cooking. 🙁 I just found out Mouse will need a dove costume for an upcoming play at school. I hope I can find out . . . Maybe a white dress and angel wings will have to do. LOL