holidays, New Year etc! I’ve had such fun catching up on all of your wonderful holiday projects and New Year’s reflections and resolutions. I didn’t expect to take SUCH an extended break, but it was lovely. I went to visit my family in NYC where I bought fabric and yarn
visited favorite places with favorite people
saw LOTS of movies, namely The Golden Compass (good), Sweeney Todd (better), and Juno (best), and read a bunch of very good books, though the one I was utterly taken by was Susannah Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieu, which was a Christmas gift from the fabulous Lauren (who, by the way, is going on a book tour for her latest book beginning in February–I’m super excited that she’s coming to San Francisco, and I urge you to see her if she’s in your town too!).
Then I came home to sunny San Francisco for a few lazy days with Moondoggie, who got me an iPhone (among other very nice things) for Christmas! So now I’ll be able to browse blogs and send e-mails no matter where I am (given decent WiFi and a strong AT&T signal!). Very exciting. I also got my hands on the latest Marie Claire Idees and had to immediately make the darling patchwork star ornament, despite being post tree-decorating time.
It is a great use of favorite scrappy bits (the pieces really are tiny), and I’m thinking I might like to make a stack of them and then just put them away to give as gifts next year (when, I imagine, having a 9-month-old might complicate handmade holiday plans a bit!).
I am feeling and looking more like Tweedledee every day, and getting inexplicably, yawningly tired after doing very little indeed, and starting to feel anxious about buying and assembling baby furniture (we have exactly nothing at the moment). But I shan’t let that stop the crafting around here– I am determined to at least make the quilted wall hanging from Last Minute Quilted and Patchwork Gifts for the baby’s room asap!
I hope your New Year is starting off well and happily!