I am very thankful to have a few days at home this weekend.  We had planned to go backpacking up in Vermont on the long trail, but it looks like its raining all weekend up there.  We may still go up later in the weekend for a day hike.  Anyway, here’s what I’ve been up to:

Started off the morning by poking around the “garden” a bit.  We live in a condo, so it’s more or less containers on our deck, since we can’t plant anything in our big beautiful shared lawn.  We’re trying a few Earthboxes this year on our upstairs deck, we’ll see how it goes.  Here’s a little photo tour:

Then went for a walk downtown.  Picked up a coffee along the way at Higher Grounds.  The East Hampton Garden Club was having an outdoor plant sale and art show in the center of town.  Also stopped by my two favorites the Red Door Boutique and Anything Goes.  Both are always worth a stop if you are ever in the neighborhood.

Then I came home and whipped up this little headband.  It’s so muggy here today and I just cut my hair short again and needed something to hold it all back while I worked around the house.

Then I proceeded to finish redecorating the table.  The spring decorations were getting a little old.  I was able to incorporate some of the shells we found & a photo from our recent trip to Dauphin Island, AL (more pictures to follow soon).  The blue wicker place-mats (69 cents a piece) and white frame ($3) were Christmas Tree Shop finds, what a deal!

 

Made a surprisingly good lunch from the little food we have left.  We didn’t buy groceries this week in efforts to use up what we had on hand since we had planned on going away for the weekend.  But I threw this delicious pizza together using a leftover pita shell, a bottle of pizza sauce, fresh mozzarella, Italian seasoning, and garlic!

Now I’m off to go crochet outside for a bit and finish the laundry before B comes home from work.  By the way, I finally learned how to crochet this week (with the help of You Tube) so that I can do this granny square sampler afghan crochet-a-long.  It’s a pattern created by Blair based on a 1970’s Better Homes & Gardens pattern.  The original is a very cool design, but the colors are hideous!  Each week this summer she will be posting instructions for a new square on her blog, with instructions on how to sew them all together at the end of summer.  Here are my week 1 squares:

Speaking of yarn crafts, one last thing…or two rather.  My knitting got two really cool shout-outs this week…  The first, was a hat that I had knit for Burkett’s sister, Aili, which she happen to wear in a Helly Hensen photo shoot.  Also be sure to check out Aili’s Helly Hensen video here (scroll about half way down).