Drapery weights in, and then some....

 

I did it! I hand-sewed in all the drapery weights, all 32. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would. The process seemed simple enough, but each stitch was very slow because I had to make sure none of the stitching came through the outer layer. If I had not had this goal made public by this blog, I most definitely WOULD NOT have completed the job. I figure it took more than 3 hours on Saturday, then at least 3 today--way too much for me under my own puny motivation. 

 

I love the drapes even more now.

 

Closeup of a weight, handstitched to a drape corner.





Weight on the lining corner.
 

Hanging straighter on the side and bottom hems.



Pretty drapes.

As I was hoping would happen, my setting a goal in one area kick-started me in a few other areas:

• I started reading the Doctrine and Covenants. In fact, I made an important-to-me spiritual discovery in Section 6.
• I washed the front porch and porch furniture, cleaned out a dead asparagus fern, and trimmed a number of dead fronds from two small queen palms in front of the porch. I've procrastinated this project for a couple of months.
• And last, but not least, I'm back to writing my book, after probably two years of doing nothing with it. I'm still doing the same basic book, mainly because another plot is not coming to me. But I'm trimming it down by about a third, and am restructuring it. This week I made some pretty good outlining progress. It's a fun process for me now that I'm at it again.

Go ahead, now, praise me.

Now, for the new goal: I will exercise 15 minutes a day every day but Sunday.