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teddy_radiator) wrote2013-12-02 12:23 pm
teddy_radiator) wrote2013-12-02 12:23 pm
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The First Christmas Post of the Season
Happy Holidays! We've had a lovely break from work - over a week, in fact. It was awesome. Work load is very light right now, which is strange - I'm praying it will pick up over the next few weeks, or we will be in trouble.
We've finally got the house decorated completely, and I'm really enjoying it. I've made myself a promise to have all the lights twinkling while we're in the house, which is one of those conditioned things I have to re-learn. It's a year of re-conditioning all over the place for me. But the house looks warm and inviting, even with a few things out of place.
I've got the Christmas cards ready; not so many this year as last, but that's how it goes. I'm sending out more presents this year, so everything balances. And I'm making more presents this year, which is fun. I'm taking the month off writing, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lemonade8 told me yesterday she has another illustrated story in mind, so I'm hoping we can start that at the first of the year - I'm very excited about that. I had a ball working with her on The Slave. And stgulik and I agreed that the novel must be done this spring, so that's a big push. And the Promptfest!! I had such a fun time writing my submission for that. I can't begin to tell you! So there's loads to look forward to after the Christmas high fades.
In the meanwhile, here are loads of pictures of Christmas and Quilt pron. I am just a block quilter, not a piece quilter like Jules, and I haven't made one in years, but we had Quilt Show and Tell yesterday, and I hate to waste good pics:
I always called this a Honeycomb Quilt, but Jules called it a Grandmother's Garden Quilt, which sounds much more folksy and quilt-y. I made it for my mom, but it is extremely heavy, and she gave it back to me because she really didn't have any use for it.
This is our Christmas Quilt, but it really isn't. It's actually a duvet cover, but I made it for our UK Queen-sized bed, and we have a King now. We just drape this over the end of the bed for decoration now.
This is our little kitchen tree. It's covered in food-related ornaments.
The mantle doesn't change much year to year, but I still love decorating it. That's my grumpy little Bosco in the box, the one who had a stroke. Bless him, he's very insecure now, and sitting in a box makes him happy, though you wouldn't know that from the expression on his face. He's not the same cat since the stroke. He's very withdrawn and reclusive, but he is more outgoing with company now.
This is a little patriotic lap quilt I did years ago right after 9-11. I never really use it for anything, but I like it. It also reminded me that I have another little lap quilt in storage that I really ought to drag out as well. Maybe today if I remember it.
Here is a closeup of the big tree. The 'elf on the shelf' was a Christmas present from my kindergarten teacher when I was five years old. He's so faded, poor dear, but I can't bear to part with him.
This is the full tree. You can see the Mad Hatter topper reflected in the mirror over the mantle. All of our bears sit under there. Our newest addition, Seymour Rhodes (thank you Lemonade) .
This is our new sideboard/massage table in the kitchen. The little red birds belonged to TheHubs®' dad, and the baubles belonged to my grandmother and my mom. They are all over 50 years old and very fragile. I'll be tidied up and food stacked on it Christmas Eve.
It seems a lot of work seeing as so few people will actually see it, but somehow showing it to you makes me feel like more people will be visiting us.
We've finally got the house decorated completely, and I'm really enjoying it. I've made myself a promise to have all the lights twinkling while we're in the house, which is one of those conditioned things I have to re-learn. It's a year of re-conditioning all over the place for me. But the house looks warm and inviting, even with a few things out of place.
I've got the Christmas cards ready; not so many this year as last, but that's how it goes. I'm sending out more presents this year, so everything balances. And I'm making more presents this year, which is fun. I'm taking the month off writing, but
lemonade8 told me yesterday she has another illustrated story in mind, so I'm hoping we can start that at the first of the year - I'm very excited about that. I had a ball working with her on The Slave. And stgulik and I agreed that the novel must be done this spring, so that's a big push. And the Promptfest!! I had such a fun time writing my submission for that. I can't begin to tell you! So there's loads to look forward to after the Christmas high fades.In the meanwhile, here are loads of pictures of Christmas and Quilt pron. I am just a block quilter, not a piece quilter like Jules, and I haven't made one in years, but we had Quilt Show and Tell yesterday, and I hate to waste good pics:
I always called this a Honeycomb Quilt, but Jules called it a Grandmother's Garden Quilt, which sounds much more folksy and quilt-y. I made it for my mom, but it is extremely heavy, and she gave it back to me because she really didn't have any use for it.
This is our Christmas Quilt, but it really isn't. It's actually a duvet cover, but I made it for our UK Queen-sized bed, and we have a King now. We just drape this over the end of the bed for decoration now.
This is our little kitchen tree. It's covered in food-related ornaments.
The mantle doesn't change much year to year, but I still love decorating it. That's my grumpy little Bosco in the box, the one who had a stroke. Bless him, he's very insecure now, and sitting in a box makes him happy, though you wouldn't know that from the expression on his face. He's not the same cat since the stroke. He's very withdrawn and reclusive, but he is more outgoing with company now.
This is a little patriotic lap quilt I did years ago right after 9-11. I never really use it for anything, but I like it. It also reminded me that I have another little lap quilt in storage that I really ought to drag out as well. Maybe today if I remember it.
Here is a closeup of the big tree. The 'elf on the shelf' was a Christmas present from my kindergarten teacher when I was five years old. He's so faded, poor dear, but I can't bear to part with him.
This is the full tree. You can see the Mad Hatter topper reflected in the mirror over the mantle. All of our bears sit under there. Our newest addition, Seymour Rhodes (thank you Lemonade) .
This is our new sideboard/massage table in the kitchen. The little red birds belonged to TheHubs®' dad, and the baubles belonged to my grandmother and my mom. They are all over 50 years old and very fragile. I'll be tidied up and food stacked on it Christmas Eve.
It seems a lot of work seeing as so few people will actually see it, but somehow showing it to you makes me feel like more people will be visiting us.