Recent Enthusiasms

A few weeks ago (weekend before last?), I went with Mom and Dad to a local outdoor market type event.  We bought a few things- earrings, a set of hair-clips that I'm using for holding on scarves and kippot, and a hula hoop.  The last sounds pretty absurd, but I've actually been really enjoying playing with it as a means of some exercise.  I'm not doing badly either.  So today I investigated the internet a little bit for some of the tricks alluded to by the woman who made and sold the hula hoop, and some of them look seriously impressive and actually graceful, which is not at all a word that I generally associate with a hula hoop.  It's a surprisingly fun experience, for all its absurdity.  It's also been quite fun to trade off turns with it with my folks- we had a lot of fun taking turns hula hooping this evening.  Tomorrow, maybe I'll try to learn some tricks...

Otherwise, I've been making a couple of doilies, which have come out pretty well.  I can indeed read a pattern successfully.  And the second is quite a nice one, and a larger version of it will, provided that my plan works out, be incorporated into the huppah that I am working on for my sister's wedding and beyond.  It's been a nice change from kippot, and should give me some nice ideas for future kippot (at least for women) in the future.  Not, of course, that the next year is going to involve quite so many kippot for me, given the general advice I've been given regarding walking around Israel...