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Photographic Friday ~ Thirty-four

It's Photographic Friday, the day when I share practice photographs from the past few days or so.  They aren't perfect.  What is really?  I'm enjoying the process of concentrating, creating and working up my 10,000 hours of practice.  If the spirit moves you, feel free to share your own creations, photographic and otherwise with a link!

 

Have a happy and safe New Year; best wishes from the Shenks for 2012!  Thank you all for your friendship and inspiration!  I look forward to seeing you back at this space on Tuesday.

xo,  Angela

Good Tidings-in a cup even

During the next few weeks of holiday haps, I will be hosting my Good Tiding series-a photo or two with few words or none (let's see if I can pull that one off).  Feel free to join  in if the spirit or the cray cray moves you.

Have a great Thursday!

Good Tidings-in which She Plays

During the next few weeks of holiday haps, I will be hosting my Good Tiding series-a photo or two with few words or none (let's see if I can pull that one off).  Feel free to join  in if the spirit or the cray cray moves you.

I apologize for the fuzzy photo.  I was laughing with her!  Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Good Tidings-in which I'm Still Kinda Slow

During the next few weeks of holiday haps, I will be hosting my Good Tiding series-a photo or two with few words or none (let's see if I can pull that one off).  Feel free to join  in if the spirit or the cray cray moves you.

I hope everyone is having or has had a wonderful holiday.  Around these parts we celebrate Christmas until the Epiphany, January 6th, so we'll be rockin' out for a while.  Have  a wonderful Tuesday!

Good Tidings-in which I'll be back on Tuesday

During the next few weeks of holiday haps, I will be hosting my Good Tiding series-a photo or two with few words or none (let's see if I can pull that one off).  Feel free to join  in if the spirit or the cray cray moves you.

So much to do and enjoy, as I am sure is happening where you live no matter what you celebrate or what you are up during this season.  Solstice is upon us, Hanukkah has begun, Christmas is coming and the New Year approaches.  Whew!  I'll be signing off for the next few days to enjoy the fun and the making (I may have bitten off more than I can knit).  I'll be back at this space on Tuesday; hopefully I'll see you then.  Until then have a beautiful time and in the words of sweet Katie "Happy Everything".  That's what it's all about-enjoying and cherishing each other. 

Until next time friends . . . .

She refused the sweater I picked out.  I can't wait to see her Christmas Eve outfit.

Good Tidings-in which there was much passing out

During the next few weeks of holiday haps, I will be hosting my Good Tiding series-a photo or two with few words or none (let's see if I can pull that one off).  Feel free to join  in if the spirit or the cray cray moves you.

xo,

Ang

 

Weekending ~ December 18, 2011

Joining sweet Amanda at the habit of being today . . . .

 

This weekend went by too fast.

We started Friday with the movie Million Dollar Duck.  I do appreciate these old super-slow Disney movies, even if they are a bit sexist. 

Saturday morning was spent cleaning.  I finally made up a batch of wood cleaner solution from Make Your Place.  I am so happy and proud of myself.  This stuff works like a dream.  Spots I couldn't get off my furniture with commercial cleaner (even the "healthy" kind) came off like a dream.  I loved that it took no time to make up; cost pennies to concoct and didn't offend my olfactory system.  My furniture looks so much better too.  I never would have believed it.

Saturday afternoon found me looking all over for a white dance outfit for Helena.  Thankfully she needed new tights and she will be wearing her leotard and wrap skirt in class and again for  the Easter Vigil mass.  

Regarding the dance: I am amazed at how much the girls can remember after only two rehearsals.  Saturday is the big day with the orchestra and full choir.  It promises to be very dramatic.  I am hoping I won't be sitting in the pews crying, but I probably will.  That seems to be how I roll after having children.

At rehearsal on Saturday, Helena and Elijah were just amazed that the priest wore "normal" clothes. 

Sunday was nice an slow.  Greg baked sugar cookies with the kiddos. They used the iced Christmas tree cookie and glace icing recipes from Christmas Cooking with Kids (our version has marshmallow snowpeople on the cover; I am not sure if the version pictured is the same as the one that we have).  I made some lip balm using a recipe from SouleMama.  Then Greg and the kids molded and baked the makings of this year's gingerbread house.

This reminds me of Jackson Pollock.

There was roast chicken with lemon and thyme from Apples for Jam.  The house smelled so good between the cookies, gingerbread, beeswax and chicken.

Between all of that, I knit, and I am still knitting. It's a good thing I enjoy it.  Now the kids are saying they want Grumpy, the knitted lump of coal).  They'll have to wait to next year on that one.

The late afternoon was all about Christmas movies.  The kiddos watched Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker.

Late Sunday night caught me making and editing lists.  It's supposed to get shorter not longer right?

How was your weekend?

Photographic Friday ~ Thirty-three

It's Photographic Friday, the day when I share practice photographs from the past few days or so.  They aren't perfect.  What is really?  I'm enjoying the process of concentrating, creating and working up my 10,000 hours of practice.  If the spirit moves you, feel free to share your own creations, photographic and otherwise with a link!

Wishing you all a lovely and hopefully relaxing weekend!

Good Tidings

It's beginning to look  a little cray cray around here.  There is so much to do and enjoy.  I am finding my time here with you all, which I cherish, is starting to become a little less.  I don't want to vanish during these full  and rich days, so I thought I would start a little Christmas Tidings series for those days when I can't quite be here as much.   It will be a picture or two or three of  holiday goings on as we try to soak up the goodness and simplicity of the season (yeah I said simplicity).  There will be no words or very few on these days.  This way, I am still here and still able to chat with those of you who can still be here too.  I know that whether you are celebrating a holiday or not, December can be a pretty rushed and pressured time.  Here though, hopefully, I can contribute a bit of rest for myself and for you if you are in need of one.  Here goes.

Done and Done

It's already Wednesday-again.  These days blow by so quickly, but they are made sweeter with Ginny's Yarn Along.

 

You'd think by the title of this post that I am done.  Ha!  Hardly.  I did finish another cowl and I am officially done researching items to make for this Christmas-hence, done and done.  Before I declared myself done with my gift research, I dove through Ravelry and my last-minute knitted gifts books.  Everything is squared away now; it has to be.  Every year I vow to start ealier, and this year I did.  Apparently it was not early enough to compensate for my dithering and indecision, not to mention everyday interruptions.  You know the ones where you have to feed the children.

Even though I can't share what I am knitting,  I can show you Grumpy.  He is too cute and just cracks me up.  This is a definite project for next Christmas.  Actually my Ravelry queue is full of projects for next year.  I am all kinds of inspired to knit some decorations for the house.  Oh Ravelry how you draw me into your knitted clutches.

As for books, we are reading Corgiville Christmas, The Sweet Smell of Christmas along with several other books.  No reading for me except my knitting books which is fine.

What are you making and reading this week?