bring on the yarn {december views}

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sounds of the season

one of my favorite holiday movies is white christmas. i so wish i could remember the first time my mom introduced me to it. i wish i remembered how old i was and where we were. but i do remember watching it every year with her when i was in my late teens and early twenties. i love an irving berlin musical and this one has everything: dancing, love, humor, glamour, snow (finally), misunderstandings, a sorting out of things, costumes, danny kaye...and really great songs. i will be sharing a few of them over the next week or so, but tonight, as we still have a bit on the ground and there are rumors of more, i will share this one.

snow and scrooge {december views}

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we caught a bit of george c. scott's version of scrooge on AMC tonight. made me think of my favorite version of this story...here's a scene that includes a song that i end up singing over and over and one of my favorite lines of this often quoted movie in our house: "you're a little absent minded spirit." "no, i'm a large absent minded spirit." hee, hee. gets me every time.

{december views} weekend and sounds of the season

december views

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sounds of the season

we watched rudolph tonight.
jon loves it.
he can quote it.

here's a favorite in honor of jonny.

catching up {december views} and sounds of the season

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sounds of the season

a few favorites...

"rudolph" (gene autry)
"do they know its christmas?" (band aid)
"all i want for christmas" (from love actually)
"carol of the bells" (celtic woman)
"'zat you santa claus?" (brian setzer)
"here comes santa claus" (elvis)
"have yourself a merry little christmas" (bert & ernie)

tonight. a memory. and december views.

view of me this evening...this whole week really but with rotating sets of flannel pajamas

so this chest cold is really taking it out of me...
i have spent the last four days in my pajamas. i have been working my day job (thank goodness i do that one from home) and taking naps and drinking many many mugs of tea. but mostly i am grumpy and achey and am now losing my voice.

thank you so much for your tea recipes. i now have the ingredients for the ginger/honey/lemon tea and will be making it tomorrow. adding honey to my tea is soothing my throat. (thank goodness for a dear husband who goes to the store for me.)

and thank you so much for your orders from the shop...i deeply appreciate it and love that so many people are buying a few handmade gifts this year.

the collecting sea glass at ruby beach scarf

i did want to share one little thing with you that has been making me smile. i took some photos of the scarves on betty drawn across her like a sash (as you can see in the above photo). i wanted people to be able to see more of the patchwork. but every time i see one of these photos, i immediately start singing this song. i can't help myself. i don't even realize i am singing it (i sing in my head all the time...does anyone else do that?) until i find myself trying to remember the line of dialogue that comes after, "what is it katie nana?" somewhere there is a tape of mary poppins that my dad taped off the TV. you know the kind. the ones where he tried not to tape the commercials because we had no VCR remotes then so you would have to get up to fast forward through them if you taped them. so the picture on the screen jumps a bit signaling where the commercial began and ended. sometimes we missed a few seconds of the next scene. sometimes there was the last bit of a commercial. love it. i watched it over and over and over as a kid. i remember one day realizing, "no way. that is totally dick van dyke" playing that older man at the bank in one of the last scenes. love dick van dyke. i wanted him to be my friend when i was a kid. and i so wanted to dance with those penguins. and laugh my way up to the ceiling...oh how the list goes on.

okay...one more mug of tea and then i am going to bed.

tell me what is going on in your world...

an update, a deep breath, and heading to bed early

betty's style on day 2

we had a really wonderful weekend at urban craft uprising. this was such an incredible event. loved it. loved the people there, the delightful customers, the shopping...i hope to do it again next year. seriously, the folks who put on this show rocked.

and jon was a huge help...even staying up with me on friday night to get all the last minute things done, helping me all day saturday, cutting out more felt circles because the garlands sold out and i needed to make more, and helping me all day sunday. what a sweetheart that man of mine is.

the exhaustion set in late sunday night and i have yet to recover. a chest cold of some sort has decided to settle in for a visit. i am drinking lots of tea and wearing scarves and several blankets as i try to catch up on editing. i am also wishing i could find a tea for colds that doesn't taste like anise (ideas anyone?).

the bundled up with hot cocoa and the new yorker scarf, available here

betty and i had a photoshoot yesterday morning, and i have updated the shop with a few things, including patchwork aprons, scarves, new blossoms made out of ties that used to live in my dad's closet, and a few lots of dots garland. if you need something in time for christmas, note that i will be shipping items until december 19th. (i will also be adding a few more items here and there this week as i continue to process the photos.)

lots of dots garland, available here

but now it is time for bed...
i will share my december views and sounds of the season soon...
hoping things are beautiful in your world today...

another adventure: urban craft uprising

my table at art fiber fest, october 2008

Urban Craft Uprising is this weekend!

If you are in the Seattle area, consider joining me and about 130 other artists

At the Exhibition Hall at the Seattle Center

Saturday and Sunday, 11 AM - 5 PM

There are swag bags given away to the first people who arrive on Saturday!!!

(due to all the last minute details before the show, december views and sharing the sounds of the season will continue later this weekend.)

december 4 {december views}, sounds of the season

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sounds of the season

ella and louis are singing what i know to be true this evening: "baby, it's cold outside"