Nice holiday so far...
Dec. 26th, 2009 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukWell, its been pretty stress free of a holiday. I had lots of help from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
public_shaylan to get the house ready for christmas eve dinner. The lasagna and the pies turned out great. I think I have now become an "organic" pie maker. Meaning I can just pull things from the freezer and cupboard and make really good pie from scratch. I even made homemade whip cream...why or why did I ever buy cool-whip? Seriously easy to do.
I got some awesome stuff for the holiday including lots of knitting stuff and the new poles for the "swingset" style of arrangement for our pavilion. How cool is that? Mel's mom also made us each a personalized punchwork embroidery pillow. Mine has a crow and mel's has a keg and stein of beer. They are small but perfect for the couch. All of the handmade stuff that I made went over well. Mom really liked the shawl but she was completely enamored of the brooch mel made in about 10 mins. Oh, and I also got COBRA ACTION FIGURES!! So fun. Mel also got me more currier and ives dishes for the antique set we use. We had a very relaxing day of hanging out and me knitting or reading about knitting.
Mel smoked ham and two beef roasts and we had a simple dinner of ham, potatoes and baked brie...along with pie. Did I mention I made a lot of pie? I made rhubarb (small one), 2 blueberry cream cheese(1 to Joes), 2 key lime(1 to joes), cherry berry. Shanda made apple crumb top and strawberry cream cheese. Its all so good. It was such a nice day to relax.
Today I knit a lot and relaxed and realized I'm wheezing a bit. Then I headed out to seeshade_scribbler and crewe at Something Sweet for some socializing. It was a good time and I got more knitting done (see a theme) but I'm realizing that the wheezing is kinda constant. I think rest and more drugs tomorrow will be good.
The thing to note is that knitting is making me happy. I'm about 1/2 way done with mel's hot water bottle cozy and I hope to start mine soon after I get his finished in the next few days. I guess I'm knitting a bit quicker than I thought and that is okay. That just means that socks are closer...tee hee!
public_shaylan to get the house ready for christmas eve dinner. The lasagna and the pies turned out great. I think I have now become an "organic" pie maker. Meaning I can just pull things from the freezer and cupboard and make really good pie from scratch. I even made homemade whip cream...why or why did I ever buy cool-whip? Seriously easy to do.I got some awesome stuff for the holiday including lots of knitting stuff and the new poles for the "swingset" style of arrangement for our pavilion. How cool is that? Mel's mom also made us each a personalized punchwork embroidery pillow. Mine has a crow and mel's has a keg and stein of beer. They are small but perfect for the couch. All of the handmade stuff that I made went over well. Mom really liked the shawl but she was completely enamored of the brooch mel made in about 10 mins. Oh, and I also got COBRA ACTION FIGURES!! So fun. Mel also got me more currier and ives dishes for the antique set we use. We had a very relaxing day of hanging out and me knitting or reading about knitting.
Mel smoked ham and two beef roasts and we had a simple dinner of ham, potatoes and baked brie...along with pie. Did I mention I made a lot of pie? I made rhubarb (small one), 2 blueberry cream cheese(1 to Joes), 2 key lime(1 to joes), cherry berry. Shanda made apple crumb top and strawberry cream cheese. Its all so good. It was such a nice day to relax.
Today I knit a lot and relaxed and realized I'm wheezing a bit. Then I headed out to see
shade_scribbler and crewe at Something Sweet for some socializing. It was a good time and I got more knitting done (see a theme) but I'm realizing that the wheezing is kinda constant. I think rest and more drugs tomorrow will be good.The thing to note is that knitting is making me happy. I'm about 1/2 way done with mel's hot water bottle cozy and I hope to start mine soon after I get his finished in the next few days. I guess I'm knitting a bit quicker than I thought and that is okay. That just means that socks are closer...tee hee!
