Christmas preparations have not gone well for me this year. I
travelled for work 4 times between the beginning of November and
last week, most of the time for a week at a time. Plus I was sick -
twice! I'm still coming out of the fog of the second cold and we
are on a day-and-a-half long road trip to our hometown for
Christmas. I know, it's a lot of excuses and whining. I'll blame it
on the fact that I recently watched a Hallmark movie with Jeannine
Garrofolo on tv in some hotel somewhere that has brought out the
complainer/whiner/snark in me. I think she brings it out in
everyone.
Bottom line, I hadn't been making the time to make things. Which
is silly since I like making thing a whole lot. Lucky for
me, this past weekend I had laryngitis and couldn't really talk to
anyone, so I took a few sick days and squirrelled myself away in my
crafty room and just started on something. I actually completed all
my sister- and mother-in-law's presents. I can't show pictures yet
for obvious reasons, but will after Christmas.
We're heading home to spend the holidays with my in-laws and
will have a second Christmas with my family on New Year's Day back
in Ottawa. Now that I'm on a roll again with making things, I
decided to just pack everything up and bring it along with me. Why
not? We're driving! We have a station wagon! So now, along with a
medium-sized dog in a crate and gifts and luggage and packages from
other people and coats and boots and sandwiches, I also have 2
large bags of linen, block printing supplies and a sewing machine!
This way as the family is hanging out together in the living room I
can both hang out with them AND be productive and finish the stuff
I want to make for our second Christmas.
I was looking at a few pictures I was going to post of Christmas
decorations I've made over the past couple of years and realized
that I apparently have a tree obsession - I have wicker trees,
gumball trees, grapevine trees, peppermint trees, linen trees, and
ceramic trees. Oh yes, and of course a pine tree. Stay tuned for
pictures of at least the candy, grapevine and linen trees. If
you're really good boys and girls I may even create a tutorial for
the stuffed linen trees.