At last... Sun!

Blue skies seem to be few and far between this winter. Mom's average for sunny days during her visit was pretty sad.... something near 6 out of 18 days. Fortunately, we managed to take advantage of almost every one of them without hurting ourselves running for the front door.

Our last day of sun was spent doing girl-y things in Cambridge's city centre, aka downtown. Wandering through the Sunday craft market, shopping for hemp clothing to take home to the States, buying matching boots and cardigans (not hemp but prettier), drinking seasonal coffees at Starbucks and browsing the few galleries that were open, at the while trying to stand in the sunny spots.

Here's hoping my mom comes in the summer next time.

2008!

Thick with colds, the best way to bring in the new year ...

games of Scrabble
chocolate fondue
Shooglenifty
and a whisky.

Hope your celebrations were just as good or better.

And, if you're inspired by the idea of chocolate fondue, here are a few dippers to consider:

biscotti
coconut macaroons
ladyfingers
blackberries
marshmallows
crystallized ginger
salted pretzels and
clementines.

Happy New Year!

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