I Picked My Hook Back Up!!

 (2 inch Multicolor Button Rings Crochet Flower Keychain by Wuglyees)

      Guess what?!...I actually picked up my crochet hook this morning and did some crocheting! :-) I think the fact that I sold a couple crochet boutonnieres...out of the country too!...gave me the incentive! :-)

      Nothing major. Just a couple 'wuglyee-style' crochet keychains, and a couple of lapel pins. But, at this point, I'm happy to have incentive to crochet 'anything'!! The quietness of my shop, and the disappearance of my sales, did a number on my desire to create! I was starting to question whether I should just close the shop and 'call it a day'! O_O

      For now anyway, I'm back!! ^_^ ...

      Back to taking bits of colored thread, a metal crochet hook, and occasionally a vintage button, and making 'WUGLYEES'!! ^_^ ... Warm, maybe ugly, but easy to love creations! :-) ...
 

 (Wuglyees)

      Sometimes a tiny bit of colorful crochet lapel pin 'class' pops off the hook too!! ^_^ ...

 (Crochet Lapel Pins)

      But, for me, it's always a way to have fun, play with color and texture, show off some technique...and buttons!...and maybe make a few pennies to boot! ^_^ ... Soooo...keychain, anyone?!!! :-) ...

(Crochet Flower Keychains)

      And if you need any other crochet items...shawls, scarves, pocketbooks, necklaces, gloves, headbands, etc...pop on over to my Etsy shop HERE! :-) If you see something you like, but you want it in another color, just let me know! ^_^

      Oh Yeah!...if you need some poetry, I have some of that in the shop too! :-) ... Okay, that's all of the 'shop talk' I have for today. :-) ... As to other stuff, our car had some repairs done today... $400 worth!! O_O YIKES! I wonder how much 'an arm and a leg' are going for these days?! LOL

      Our finances are as sparse as hen's teeth these days!! ^_^ We got some mail today, offering us a free trip to Orlando Florida. An obvious scam, we think, because the letter didn't even have a professional letter-head or a personal name signed to it!...Hubby and I were joking about how we could figure out a way to make the 'scammers' feel so sorry for us that they'd just send us the check for what the trip was suppose to cost...$1,800! LOL...We're not that desperate....YET!! ^_^

       And on the sports front, YAY!...'Baby Boy', Rafa Nadal, won his first round match at Wimbledon today!....Phew! O_O I was worried when he lost the first set!...but he re-grouped and pulled it out!! :-) 

      Other winners were Maria Sharapova, Wilfried Tsonga, Serena Williams, and Roger Federer! :-) Novak Djokovic won his match yesterday....I LOVE tennis! ^_^ I'm also loving soccer right now!...the FIFA World Cup in Brazil! :-) 

      I have to admit...I hardly paid attention to soccer last year. I was more into bicycling. But since the whole 'Lance Armstrong' and doping stuff, I haven't watched cycling since. It took all of the excitement out of it for me. Kinda sad too. :-( I loved watching the beautiful French countryside views fly by...Oh Well. This year I have soccer! :-) I can watch the goalie's body fly by, when he dives for a ball!! LOL

     Okay.....yak! yak! yak!! LOL...Now you know why I stopped writing in a diary many years ago!...I ran out of paper!! LOL Have a good rest of the day, Everybody!! :-) 

Distracted

I'm terribly distracted.
Watching tennis all the time,
I don't even wanna talk.
And it's a struggle writing rhyme.

And I'm wonderfully distracted.
Doing what I love to do.
Whoop and holler at the T.V.,
while I blog a bit for you.

I'm sorry I'm distracted.
And I hope you will forgive
that my mind can not be wrangled.
All my thoughts are in the sieve.

What I'll try to do tomorrow...
which I clearly can't do now...
is to give my full attention
to those who will not get it now! 

Guess What's 'TRENDING' Right Now?!

 (Beadwork Locket Necklace by fantasticgift)

      I hope everybody is having a happy Tuesday...or Monday...or Wednesday (depending on where you live in the world! ^_^). I'm having a pretty good day! The sun is shining....in other words, no rain! YAY! ^_^ ...The hummingbirds are zipping back and forth, and the French Open is in full swing on week two, with my 'baby boy', Rafael Nadal still in it! ^_^

      There's nothing else going on around my neck of the woods. Certainly not in my Wuglyees shop...unfortunately! O_O I haven't sold a single solitary thing for almost two weeks!! O_O It's starting to worry me...seriously!...That's why I decided to check out Etsy's 'Trending' section...to see if I'm waaaay off base with my little boutonniere flowers and crocheted stuff. O_O

      What I found was lots of cool items! Take a look!!...

 (fantasticgift)

      The above necklace is the one that's in the header photo also. Soooo cute!...the little girl, and the necklace! ^_^ I love that the little house is also a locket that you can open and write a personalized message in! :-]

      Also trending is this unique clutch bag!...

 ("CarryMe" Clutch bag by GoodMoodMoon)

      I love the way you hold onto it! :-)

      And how about these items!...

 (Personalized Name Ring by barbabelle88)

 (Massimo Vignelli for HELLER Mid Century Modern Dinnerware by BasicDetails)

 (Pastel Collection of 4 Hand Painted Succulent Jars by BearfruitSucculents)

(Interlocking Geometric Puzzle Wooden Coasters by RyonDesign)

      All very cute, and very useful too! :-) But, as you see, there's no boutonnieres, lapel pins, or nothing crocheted in this list! O_O Does that mean that my little crochet flower creations have missed their time in the sun?....or that their time in the sun hasn't arrived yet?! O_O I don't know...but I just had to find some flowers 'trending' somewhere!!!...And I did!! :-) ...

(Dried flowers iphone 5 cases by FlowerCases)

 (Vintage Style Floral Quartz Leather Watch by FreeForme)

(Poppies Photo Print by stoevvalentin)

       Oh Yes! If there's a flower 'trending' somewhere...leave it to me to find it!! LOL

      What I hope is that if these flowered items are trending now, there's a chance that my flower boutonnieres will be trending soon too!! :-) ... Frankly, let me be completely honest, I don't care if they start trending! I just want them to start selling!! LOL I'm gonna forget how to package my items if I don't get some practice soon! ^_^ So come on over to Wuglyees and check out my shop, will ya! 

     And here's a deal for anyone reading my blog today...If you buy more than $50.00 worth of items...wherever you live in the world...I'll give you FREE SHIPPING, and I'll send you a FREE GIFT! :-) Just write: POETESSWUG DEAL in the 'message to seller, at checkout. The deal will be good for the month of June.

      Okay...That's all I got for today. My nap...with one eye open to the tennis matches...is 'trending'! LOL Have a good rest of the day, Everybody! ♥

Distracted

I'm terribly distracted.
Watching tennis all the time,
I don't even wanna talk.
And it's a struggle writing rhyme.

And I'm wonderfully distracted.
Doing what I love to do.
Whoop and holler at the T.V.,
while I blog a bit for you.

I'm sorry I'm distracted.
And I hope you will forgive
that my mind can not be wrangled.
All my thoughts are in the sieve.

What I'll try to do tomorrow...
which I clearly can't do now...
is to give my full attention
to those who will not get it now!

The Time...Hours, And Days.......!

      It's funny...and a good thing...that, no matter what's going on in your life, time, hours and days continue right along. The sun keeps rising in the morning, welcoming birds to chirp and eat, squirrels to chase each other, and neighborhood cats to prowl.
       

      I spent almost all day watching tennis, telling stories to my hubby about my friend, eating, crying, and watching more tennis.
 

      I wasn't very good company. And thankfully hubby didn't require me to be. He allowed me to just be...without judgement. He was so sweet...listening to my stories, crying with me. Suffering through my silly remembrances, and laughing along with me.
 

       I've had to deal with a lot of grief this year. Not much fun for people watching me go through it. And not much fun for me trying to write something about it here on the blog, while staying positive and still trying to find things to smile about.
 

      But I did it!...because there's always something positive to think about, and if you look hard enough, always something to smile about too...even if you have to do it through tears...Something like the fact that the sun keeps rising in the morning, and the moon keeps shining in the sky at night.
 

      I'm gonna give myself at least one more day to 'veg out', and contemplate the days. Then I'm gonna get back to my crocheting and stuff...which I'm not the slightest bit interested in doing right now.
 

      Hopefully by then I'll be able to pick up the mood of this blog too...and get back to some 'things I'm loving right now' or showing off what other Etsians or bloggers are up to.

      So, for today, please indulge my mope-iness. I'm trying to get myself ready to 'be there' for other people that might need me, but first...just like the stewardess tells you to do when you're watching her do the demonstration before your plane takes off...I've got to put the oxygen mask on myself!! LOL Otherwise I'm not gonna be 'no good' for anybody!!

      I'm so thankful that in the back of my mind, and in the front of my heart, at such a sad time, when I'm missing my friend so much, I don't have to be thinking about where she is, or if she's okay!! I know where she is...she's sleeping in death, waiting for the time when Jehovah God will awaken her from death...How do people that don't have deep belief get through times of grief?! It makes me sad for them.

      Anyway...another day has come and gone. And thankfully, this one will too. But not before I waste it away in sweet oblivion. :-)...I'm giving myself permission today.
      I hope your day is more upbeat, and that grief is far from your doorstep...I also hope that if you have questions about life...or death...that you get them answered now...before you're in a tough situation of life. As the Bible book of Ecclesiastes 9:11 says: '...time and unexpected events overtake us all.'
       Sorry...I'm so fun to talk to today...NOT! ^_^ See you tomorrow. Maybe I'll be more 'ME' then. I hope so!! LOL

Distracted

I'm terribly distracted.
Watching tennis all the time,
I don't even wanna talk.
And it's a struggle writing rhyme.

And I'm wonderfully distracted.
Doing what I love to do.
Whoop and holler at the T.V.,
while I blog a bit for you.

I'm sorry I'm distracted.
And I hope you will forgive
that my mind can not be wrangled.
All my thoughts are in the sieve.

What I'll try to do tomorrow...
which I clearly can't do now...
is to give my full attention
to those who will not get it now!

It's Wimledon 2013....Baby!!!

        (Photo: Matthias Hangst/AELTC)

      First, before I go any further, let me tell you that all of the photos in this post are being shared from the Wimbledon Facebook page. I'm telling you that because I think that the photographers who captured the 'feel' of getting ready for Wimbledon so wonderfully should get credit for it! :-) Whoop! Whoop! I'm ready for tennis, baby!!! ^_^

     As you can see in the header photo,  the groundstaff prepared the courts ahead of the Wimbledon Championships...In other photos you can see how everybody is getting ready!
      
     A member of the groundstaff cared for plants around the grounds...

 (Photo: Matthias Hangst/AELTC)

       The players were getting ready too!...The men's world number one, Novak Djokovic...

 (Photo: Florien Eisele/AELTC)

      And the women's world number one, Serena Williams...

 (Photo: Florien Eisele/AELTC)

    The home town boy...Andy Murray! :-) ...
 

 (Photo: Florien Eisele/AELTC)

     And my 'baby boy'...Rafael Nadal! :-) ...

 (Photo: Florien Eisele/AELTC)

      Yes, I call him 'baby boy'. It's an affectionate term for him. What can I say...I'm a Georgia Girl! ^_^ That's what we call someone we feel affection for...baby boy or baby girl...And Oh yeah, we call baby boys that are as cute as all get out 'baby boy' too!! ^_^ ...

 (Photo: Florien Eisele/AELTC)

 

     I digress! ^_^ ...As I was saying, it's Wimbledon time, BABY!!!! ^_^ ... All the balls are ready to go!...

 (Photo:  Jon Buckle/AELTC)

      And the crowds have poured into the stadium!...

(Photo: Billie Weiss / AELTC)

       I'm gonna go and find me some breakfast, and maybe even some traditional Wimbledon fare...strawberries and cream!! ^_^ Or popcorn!! Whatever!! LOL

     Have a good day, Everybody! :-) I'm gonna have a good tennis-inspired two weeks!! :-]

Distracted

I'm terribly distracted.
Watching tennis all the time,
I don't even wanna talk.
And it's a struggle writing rhyme.

And I'm wonderfully distracted.
Doing what I love to do.
Whoop and holler at the T.V.,
while I blog a bit for you.

I'm sorry I'm distracted.
And I hope you will forgive
that my mind can not be wrangled.
All my thoughts are in the sieve.

What I'll try to do tomorrow...
which I clearly can't do now...
is to give my full attention
to those who won't get it now!