So, the countdown officially begins. This guy taunts me every-time I go to wash my hands, or a dish, as he holds his little sign in my face reminding me the race is on. After Thanksgiving, it was as if the holiday atmosphere in my neighborhood turned it's gears toward Christmas overnight. I was driving home from a quick trip to the store that weekend and saw my first glimpse of a California Christmas...7 lawn flamingos with twigs glued to their heads to look like antlers pulling an empty red sleigh on someones very green lawn. Later at the mall I spotted Santa, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sunglasses, and a straw hat posing for photographs.
Last spring our city kept it's holiday decorations up way past their expiration date for the filming of "Surviving Christmas". Life is really surreal when your streets are covered in snow when it's 75+ degrees outside, and better still with Ben Affleck & Christina Applegate posing for photos with your star-struck neighbors down the street.
Lately I've been spending all of my free time making things for people. This knitted scarf, the past three nights. (The crocheted pink flower is actually a pin, I love the fact it can be moved around. )
I'm also working on a few new flower pins. I had taken my last batch of beaded flowers to show to people to see what they thought of them, and they completely sold out.
We went to my parents house for Thanksgiving. My mom gets an A+ for presentation, the table looked so lovely. I made my new favorite dessert, persimmon biscotti dipped in white chocolate for everyone. We sat around dipping them in coffee after dinner, they were so--- good. My little town is so delightfully ho-key. Last month they had a "persimmon party" in the little historic park down the street. We all were given four persimmons and a special cook-book to make things to sell at the party for a special fundraiser. I made the biscotti, and fell in love. I'm planning on making more for Christmas.
(below) : Our Thanksgiving dinner table, and my parents baby "Jenny". This is what happens when you grow up...you get replaced with dogs. I'm glad I learned this early, as I'm already the proud owner of two.
I'm working on a special "holiday" itunes mix, that I'll link to in the side bar under "listening to" for December. I'm thinking of making some holiday cds to send out again, after I saw a really great idea in Martha Stewart Living where she used home-made square envelopes, with really fun holiday wrapping paper labels. While I was unsuccessfully searching for a link to this project I did find this link instead for making some really unique cloth envelopes. Her website is an endless stream of inspiration when it comes to finding things to make for gifts during the holidays. Forever still a Martha-holic, jail bars or no.
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posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 3:05 PM
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