Ever find yourself knowing you have something, but can’t find it anywhere?  I’m having this problem now with a knitting bag and accessory pattern, and some fabric that I’m positive I had cut out, pinned, and had ready to sew into a zippered pouch. Last weekend, in preparation for getting back to some sewing, I’d reorganized my sewing box. I moved everything to a larger container, and browsed through all my patterns, and realized the one I was planning to use, was missing, as well as this cut-out fabric. I didn’t have time to continue searching then, and my search was further put off by getting sick.

This morning I finally resumed my search. I’ve looked everywhere. Well, everywhere I can logically think it might be. Obviously I haven’t looked everywhere, otherwise I’d have found it, right?

I’m kind of scared of where I might eventually find it. I know I started this project before we started our bathroom reno, and then abandoned it to focus on the reno and our summer activities. I likely stuck it away somewhere that may or may not have made sense at the time, with good intentions to move it to my sewing box eventually. Since our house has yet to return to “normal” I really wonder where the pattern and fabric will turn up. And will I have an “aha” moment, remembering exactly why I chose that particular place (or at least remember why I left it there)?

…but inside we’ve got yummy goodies! These are the result of my Christmas baking this week:

I thought these ones looked very pretty, except putting the little red and green trees were taking a really long to put on, and the dough was drying out on me. So after doing a few like this, I sprinkled the rest with red sugar (see top picture).

I’ve been quite happy to stay indoors for most of the week. It’s been bitterly cold this week, and we started getting more snow last night. It’s still snowing now, and the forecast says it’ll continue overnight. Tomorrow we’ll wake up to windchill temperatures of -41. Brrrrr!

Well, with Christmas nearly upon us, I think it’s time to announce that I’ll be taking a 2 week break from blogging. I know these past few weeks I’ve been busy already, and have not posted as often as I wanted. These next 2 weeks will  be even busier, and the holidays will likely fly by. So I should simply admit that I won’t post until the new year, instead of living in denial that I’ll actually get some time to post over the next 2 weeks.

I know Christmas is still a few weeks away, but I’m really excited to start the Advent calendar today with my son. I found a really neat one at one of the local Christian bookstores; instead of a chocolate for each day, there is an ornament to pull out each day that is also a mini-book. Today’s story is about the Holy Land, and the scripture is John 1:14. For a few years now, I try to read at least one Christmas storybook to my son each day during Advent, so this fits right in. I also found a book, The 25 Days of Christmas, which provides added scripture, readings, and activities we can incorporate, if my son is willing to sit still long enough I don’t think we’ll do a craft every day, but I do have a few in mind. Oh, and I did buy a bag of Hershey’s Hugs, so my son can still have a chocolate each day after we hang the ornament for the day.

I’ve done some Christmas decorating around the house today; no pictures today, but I’ll try to post some once I’m done, including a picture of my ornament that was in the November Gift of Stitching. Oh, and I have another finish, and 2 starts to show you too!

I guess because it’s been chillier here (we’ve actually turned the furnace on already!), I’ve been feeling like baking, so this morning I baked some oatmeal raisin cookies. The house smells good, and my son can come home from school and have a cookie after lunch. They did turn out a bit darker than I thought they would, but except for a few on the first pan, they didn’t burn. I always seem to burn or overbake a few on the first pan

 

Ready to eat!

Sorry, the picture is a little blurry