My favorite person gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card for Mother's Day, and I finally made the trek to the one in the Villages to use it. This is nice, too, as I'm planning another attempt at a no-spend month in June. I thrift books or buy used from Alibris to save money, so the chance to buy new was also a real pleasure. Browsing gave me so insight as to the current state of the fiction market (I used to keep up with it more when I worked for NY.) In regard to reading for pleasure, there aren't a lot of titles on the market that tempt me -- all seem to be uniformly depressing or ultraviolent, two things I do not want in my imagination -- but I was intrigued enough by the flap story descriptions of The Astral Library by Kate Quinn to give it a go. I spent the rest of the gift card on my other loves (crochet, art quilting and cooking) because they were what interested me, not that I needed them. I'll pass the quilting mag along to a friend as I usually do...
May was a semi-productive month for me, and also a time of finding out just how much I can screw up a project (a lot, if you're wondering.) I also had to give up and shut down my social media account because of an issue that remains toxic to me, and I really loved interacting with other creative folks via that account, so that hurt quite a bit. I'd blame that issue for all the things I messed up, but honestly, it was just my fault. I made this cute lemon yellow amigurumi bear while trying out Hobbii's Honey Bunny Shine yarn for the first time, ran out of the yarn and had to improvise to finish the toy. I crocheted this throw, which was too small because I misread the pattern. I patched a hole in one of my thrifted Vera Bradley purses. This I did not mess up. :) I crocheted an amigurumi giraffe for my grand niece, who collects them. Actually I crocheted two giraffes, but the first one passed away from either bubonic plague, or my own ineptitude. :) I cr...