Speaking of mending...

Several of you have mentioned that you can't make comments to the blog, sorry about that. I've fixed the default: must have googlemail to will receive all emails regardless of how lowly. Silly Google, one might thing they were working toward world domination or something.

Something new...

Josephina's

Larimers Square, Denver

16" x 20"

Some of you know that we have my mom visiting for the holidays. It's been great fun having family about; I've forgotten what it's like to be around someone who's so familiar with you that you don't have to finish sentences. It also means that we can lean on one another for things like clothes mending and blog mending. Yes, that's right, my mom has her art blog up and running, showing some of her recent work. So, if you have a minute, pop over and ooh and ah.

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,
Please to put a penny in an old man’s hat;
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do;
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you!

Mother Goose

Happy Holidays!

This is a project completed at the care home where I work. Each hand represents a resident and has a wish or resolution for the new year. It hangs in the entryway and will be dismantled at the New Year when we'll read the wishes and resolutions.

Downsizing...

Last June, you know, in the summertime and six months after my introduction into gingerbread engineering, I volunteered to make gingerbread house kits for our annual church Christmas fundraiser in December. It's a good cause; it could be a good moneymaker... and, it would be good to revisit gingerbread and see if I had learned anything at all.

So, with lots of notice, I planned and shopped and organized ... and with Alastair's help and a healthy sugar high, I actually finished with time to spare. So, thanks to Martha, twenty kits found good homes, which was a huge relief because I can't imagine what I would have done with them otherwise.