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! 

Poets "Scooooooooooooooore!!!" :-)

 (Book of 20 Poems by Wuglyees)

      Hello, Y'all!...Whatcha doing?!...Me?!...Oh, just trying to stay in the air conditioning! Oh Yeah...it's HOT today!! O_O Nothing earth-shattering. Just in the 80s is all. But considering that, after a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, I thought the temperature would get cooler today...it's surprisingly hot!...and humid!

      I don't have to go outside into it though, so 'Go Ahead, Mr. Weather! Knock Yourself Out!!' ^_^ I'm inside the house, in the air conditioning, scrolling through Etsy treasuries, like this one!...

 (Whisper - Etsy Treasury by SheilasBlessings)

      The reason I'm scrolling through Etsy treasuries, and especially through this one above, is because my book of poems was chosen to 'keep company' with the other items chosen for this treasury! :-)

      My poems don't usually get that much attention. Not even from me! LOL I haven't written more than two or three new poems over the last few months!...I write them when I get inspired to, but lately I haven't been inspired to do much of anything...except this blog...and some sports watching! ^_^

      Between the French Open tennis tournament, The NBA Basketball play-offs, and now...soccer!...

      

 (Soccer Player Vinyl Sticker Wall Decals by BoopDecals)

      ...all of my time has been joyously taken up! ^_^ Next week another major tennis tournament will start...Wimbledon! :-) I'm already getting my soft 'prop-me-up' pillows ready!! LOL 

      Don't get me wrong, I'm not so involved with sports as to not be doing ANYTHING else! I mean, I do have a whole life going on over here! Ha! Ha! But most of my life is not worth writing blog posts about!...taking baths, putting on deodorant and lotion, folding clothes, eating hot dogs and chips, drinking lots of water, exercising, taking hummingbird pictures, trying to get my husband to be a bit more tidy...you know, LIFE!! ^_^

      So, instead of boring you with LIFE, I'll just share soccer with you! ^_^

 (Soccer Necklace by MissingPiecesStudio)

      And, of course, crochet flowers earrings! :-) ...

(Goldfilled Wedding Earrings with Swarovski Crystals and Handmade Lace Flowers by nataliasjewellery)

      Come on! You knew there would be a flower in this post somewhere!! ^_^ "Scooooooooooooooooooooooore!!!!!" Ha! Ha! Have a good rest of the day, Everybody! ♥

Poetry

Poetry, the gift of words,
that help you say whats in your heart;
that puts your thoughts of life together,
but pulls emotions all apart.

Poetry, your quiet friend,
that gives your voice a place to land;
that gives the things you'd  never say
a way to jump out from your hand.

Poetry, done to a beat,
a beat of words, said right in time,
without confusion of the music,
but just the rhythm and the rhyme.

Poetry, phrase harmony;
the way a noun and adverb meet;
the way they line up side-by-side,
and all Not needed they delete.

Poetry, the passing thoughts,
and all the others I hold dear,
of all the people and the places
that I've  written down right here.

Poetry, the gift of words,
and putting them together too;
Without the pen and paper
what in the world would my mind do?