Step 1. Mail is not email

I think I need to book an entire weekend to do Christmas cards. Locating physical addresses may indeed be a forgotten skill.    Getting these to the postal box (is that what it is called? I can't remember) is an ambitious goal. I think I need to break this down into 10 tiny objectives so the speech pathologist in me doesn't have a panic attack...

kick it into christmas

Yes folks,  characteristically, the busier I am = the busier I want to be.
This means, this year I am going all in for christmas. Big intentions. Big. BIG intentions. ..........
...... to do christmas cards. and to decorate. and to knit (a couple gifts). and to bake. and to be suzy sort of homemaker in honor of this new 2013 novel idea in my life called "routine". I'll try it on for a bit. See how it fits.

Just in case I get the "so...hows that going for you (snicker)" comment, I am going to shoot even higher and proclaim I will try to keep my xmas tribulations and failures posted on the blog.  At this point I would score it
+2 Randi  (gift finds)
+1Grinch (due to Bijou's not so festive chocolate stocking stuffer encounter)

With Christmas craft and artisan shows every weekend in preparation for christmas, I stopped by Sask craft council's Wintergreen this afternoon.  I went to Our best to you last weekend, but I definitely like wintergreen better. More local high quality jewelry and pottery/woodworking, nice artistry.  I picked up an absolutely stunning piece of jewelry for Rhett's mom from local artist Megan Hazel ,... though the piece is not on the site and I am not going to post a picture of it right now... just in case. Well, maybe I'll think about it.

edit, ok here it is:

time get busy!

more pinups at the source

therapeutic knitting!!

http://stitchlinks.com/

more discussion must be had....

baby it's cold outside

It only seems fitting Saskatchewan should have a mid afternoon hibernation routine once the snow hits.  The south has siestas, the north should also shut down for at LEAST 2 hours.  In Thailand, people didn't seem to start moving until 5pm, when the sun looses the harsh heat of the day.  Clearly, this only reiterates the opposite in Saskatchewan, where movement should not begin until the sun has risen in the morning....which is any time between 9 and 10 am in the winter. I'll add an extra clause: stay under a blanket on the couch with a cup of coffee in hand until the snow plows and sanders have finished.  
here ye.

What am I working on.  I am completing two firsts at the moment and I would say it is going "meh". I am doing my first fair-isle pattern and my first pattern modification in one project.  Unfortunatly I was slightly too lazy to figure out how to carry the yarn when the fair isle is only on one side of the project so there is going to be alot of loose yarn on the inside. This is the key... the inside. Because it is not to be worn by anyone except for a hot water bottle, this should cause no distress to anyone except for said water bottle.

I fell in love with the idea of water bottle cozies after reading a previously mentioned book "A life in stitches: knitting my way from love, loss and laughter" by Rachael Herron.  Everything involved in the word COZY has become my favorite word in Life.