First a note to myself. One should not try to launch a new hobby/craft in the midst of the holiday rush. Take heart dear little inner sewing mama it will get better when my head stops trying to hurry my fingers. I have three or four projects that are percolating in my brain for after the holidays. And I’m getting lots of inspiration from Sew, Mama, Sew!.
Next playing with my serger (as in not really doing anything productive) is wildly amusing! One day I cobbled together a new baby doll diaper for our resident dolly Joey. We do have a second dolly but its much, much smaller. I’m on the watch for a decent sized doll (read as close to Joey as I can find) at the thrifts to add to our pretend family to even up the “I get the baby” odds.
This week I’m adding a few more projects to my plate for the rest of November and December. On of which I am really excited about. We are going to decorate a tree with edible eats for our bird friends. We’ll do this the day after Thanksgiving as a family. One of my struggles with the abrupt transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas everywhere is that I feel we miss out on establishing a tradition of sorts from a community event standpoint. And these past few years we’ve not done much better from a family standpoint either. Our Thanksgivings have been lackluster these last couple of years.
So I’m working not only the menu for next week but also the activities. I’m not going to go into our first holiday weekend with no ideas of the “what” we’ll be doing this year.
How are all your Thanksgiving plans going??
November 17th, 2007 at 3:44 am
My plans are to get my fill of food without going into a sugar indused coma. Then we will decorate for Christmas, sort of. No room for a tree this year. I think we’ll decorate the crib and put the presents inside. Hey, I’m flexible.