So, my shawl is exhausted from her day of strutting around the office, preening herself in front of my co-workers. (She’s shamless, really, quite vain.) Thank all of you for the compliments. Really, I’m flattered!

In a week or two, when the bathroom is done, and the guest room is back to normal, I’m going to try re-blocking her. Beautiful as she is, the width (i.e., the length of the front corners when short little me is wearing it) is a problem. I’m going to try to stretch it a little longer in the back and shorter in the front . . . more of an equilateral triangle. If it works, that will be great, and if it doesn’t, it won’t hurt anything!

Now, the one thing for sure I know I’m going to wear my Peacock for is a wedding that I’m [pretty sure to be] going to in August. My sister’s brother-in-law is getting married, and my parents and I are pretty sure we’ll be getting an invitation. (About which we’re all excited, we really like Betty and are thrilled for Tim. It’ll be fun!) Anyway, don’t you think my Peacock would just love going to a wedding??

  So the next step is to find the right dress and shoes. The dress, really, is going to be as simple a dress as I can come up with–the Peacock will be the star of this outfit. But I did just find what I think will be the perfect shoes–assuming they fit and are comfortable and all that! I just ordered them online, so we’ll see . . . but I’m hoping. Don’t you think they’re just about perfect to compliment my shawl?

I gave my best shot at making stitch markers tonight, which I’m not going to show you. Could someone give me some tips? I’ve never tried this whole bead-and-wire thing before . . . how are you supposed to hold the marker-on-ring still so that you can wrap the wire around the thing? I’ve found a couple good tutorial sites, though, here, here and here. It’s just a matter of getting my fingers to figure it out! If I can figure it out, I’ll sign up for “Marker Mania.”

I ordered that Chai yarn, too . . . too luscious an idea to pass up!

Do you know that as of tomorrow, the 17th, I’ll be out of high school for 20 years?? How is that possible? And as of yesterday, my niece is a Junior in high school, and my nephew is in 7th grade. Time is going just too darn fast.

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