Last gift of 2009. And dinner.

I hope that everyone has been able to celebrate a fantastic Holiday season so far.  Less than a week to go until 2010!

My last holiday project was thought up, stitched up and given away all in under an hour.  When I was in San Francisco a few months ago my friend was searching in all of the jewelry shops for a leather bracelet.  She was on her way over this weekend for a girls night and I happened to be in the basement and spotted some suede lace that I had gotten to make straps.  I didn't have anything to properly fasten a bracelet with, despite a box full of jewlery making supplies in the basement, so I just folded in the edges sewed on a snap. 

It's a bit of a rush job, and I'm not sure it perfectly fits the vision, but I like the way it looks.  I'm pretty sure that I'll be applying my usual one-for-me-one-for-you rule and making another one in the near future.

Today, though, all I made for myself was this.

It was delicious.

Whine

Internet, Christmas is (technically) eleven days away.
(Even though it is approaching 11:00PM, so I clearly only say eleven to make myself feel better because let's face it Christmas is ten days away.)

(And Christmas Eve is pretty much out of the question, because really, that's when Christmas actually begins, right.  Let's just call it what it is.  Christmas is nine days away.)

Before that day I need to finish three pillows, three towels, one purse and another mystery project.  Today, save for the minutes it will take me to type this, I have been flat in bed like this,

Yes, that is a Gal Pal and it is a miracle device.

Not quite migraine, but enough to make sewing straight lines with a noisy machine under the yellow light of the basement fixtures pretty much impossible. 

Crud.

Day two

I'm not a very good Festival goer.

Still sick.  That's about all.

Calling in sick

I think I've figured out why I was so blah and yuck this week.

Runny nose.

Itchy eyes.

Sore throat.

Pluggy ears.

The end.

Blah-gtoberfest

If I thought Sunday was a trying day, I wasn't at all ready for the ginormous storm of horrible that would hit me today.

So, for my Blogtoberfest post today, an ancient proverb that was probably said by somebody at some point in time:  Tomorrow has to be better, right?  RIGHT!??!

See you then.

Say it with fabric

It's the big day, people. 

Even my fabric is begging us all to Go Green! 

Sure, they mean the 'save the Earth' from pollution and energy waste green, but it was the best I can do. 

Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with something crafty.  For now, I've got football to watch and beer to drink.