It Feels Like Christmas

Hello My Friends,

I'm so glad you have been voting on my Poll. the results are in: one vote for the stable, 7 for the Baby Jesus, 1 for the Star, and 2 for something else. Nobody voted for the camels, funny how that goes... I wish there was a way to see who voted on what, unfortunately this program is not that sophisticated, so I guess I'll have to make due, with just knowing people are voting. Unless of course someone out there is voting multiple times...hey go for it, there are no rules in this game :o)

All this weekend, I have been working on Secret sewing projects for Christmas. It is so much fun to be doing something special for someone else, and imagining their surprise and delight!

Today, I continue working on these projects. This feels like Christmas, even though there is no snow, and my folks are far away. It really is the "Most wonderful time of the year"!

I heard this poem on NPR this morning, and it reflected my feelings on going to work. [ I get to go in two hours later than usual! :o)]

Dust of Snow

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

~Robert Frost

Let there be Peace on Earth

Hello My Friends,
This week has not been a crafty one for me. Busy at work as usual, and late hours too. So it has been one of those weeks, where absolutely the bare minimum gets done. Ya know, eat, sleep, shower, drive to work, and repeat as necessary. Not always in that order.
Well, now the weekend is here so we can relax. you and i, all of us together. With the snow falling outside, it gives a kind of wintery feeling.
Tomorrow I'm leaving the valley again, to see a long lost cousin, well not lost so much as not seen. Also I will go see "Savior of the World" a Christmas musical.
Next weekend I had hoped to go see the King's Singers perform with The Tabernacle Choir, but was not able to get tickets. I was really looking forward to the event. I had even signed up for two tickets and would have asked some guy to come with me, sort of as a date. (even though the last guy I asked sort of put of answering me until I had already left for the concert, by myself, and though i was mortally wounded, I healed quickly and was ready to ask some other nice guy this year) now we'll never know if someone would have consented to come with me.
And sometime during this very relaxing weekend, I also need to get my Resume all reworked and beautiful to a potential interviewers eye. All of the bosses and HR people who might do the interviewing have asked me if I was going to put in for the job. Of course I am. who wouldn't?

The Cat's name is Blackity

One thing you have to know about cats, is that you can only force them to do what you want for a few seconds. However, if it is something they want to do, then you'll have a hard time persuading them otherwise!



I like to put pictures up on my blog, they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Today the picture is an old one. From when my nieces and I were at my Aunt's house. And of course you can see from the subject in the picture, that somebody likes cats.

The other picture I am posting today is one of my earlier Mitered corner flannel blankets. One of these days when I don't have anything to do, I will sit down with my camera and sewing machine and do a step by step tutorial on how to make these blankets and post it here.

If you want your children to be intelligent,
read them fairy tales.
f you want them to be more intelligent,
read them more fairy tales.
~ Einstein ~

Pink Sky in the Morning

Sailors take warning!

This morning I woke up around 7:30, and found that there was a warm light coming in my window, not street lights and not daybreak light, but a sort of warm orangey and pinkish light. I was so startled that I made the effort to sit up and look out the window. Lo and behold, the sky was a bright pink color. Satisfied I let go of the blinds and rolled over and went back to sleep. Little did I know that the pink sky wasn't just a nice way to wake up. Two hours later, I did get up and went about my business, I glanced out the window, half expecting a brilliant blue sky as is the custom here in Utah, but no, it was sort of overcast, and I thought to myself, oh well that's alright. later I looked out the window and there was snow falling, I thought, hey that's great. A little bit of snow will be a nice change and it is winter after all. Well here I am several hours later and it is still snowing, there are two inches of snow on all the cars. How delightful. I hope it sticks around for a while. I well remember the snow storm of January 28th 2002 (maybe 2001) when we got three feet of snow over night. I can still recall the snowy days back in Vermont as a child, when we would spend the day by the wood stove toasting our bodies, so we could go out and play some more or help shovel the long driveway. Mmm... how nice. But I forget myself, today I am writing about flannel blankets.

I have finally taken pictures of the six flannel blankets I made some two or three months ago. The original idea behind these was to have a simple project I could do to make money online. But what happens quite regularly in my crafting/sewing/knitting world, I finish the project and it is too dear to me to part with. However, often enough, I able to give up the item, I should go through the pictures of all the quilts I've given away as wedding gifts and baby quilts etc. and upload them. The problem there, is that I'd have to find them first...
Each of these blankets are range in size from 34" to 37" square.
I may still try to put these up on KSL Classifieds. We will have to see.