Counting Down

 Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays 

to all my friends worldwide.

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Mo is still opening his Advent Calendar each afternoon. 

My to do list is dwindling: just have to get out the platters and wine glasses for  my Christmas Eve get together, bake a few cookies. I admit I'm struggling a bit post IV treatment and some sort of respiratory illness.  I had one unexpected last min sewing project. A new stocking for Little Friend [LF].

Somehow I lost the one I made a few years ago, after looking at it on the shelf of little quilts for the past twelve months.

Oh well she needed a bigger stocking anyway.

SO fun to fill with Dollat Store junk. Including a tiny felt Pug "learn to sew' kit.

Fabrics are a mix of Christmas prints and tropicals, her family always spend Christmas through New Years in a warm beach resort.

Used this funny giant polka dot for the back and lining. Took me about two hours total.

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We had a horrible scary storm here this morning. 70 mph winds [hurricane force is 74 mph] and I had to gather my courage and go out to retie down the lattice that protects Mo from falling over the edge of the deck. The lattice is heavy plastic and if flung by 70 mph wind, it would break my windows. We'd get brief moments of clearing, then more storms, but the wind has moved to the west and gusts lessened to about 45-50 mph.

The winter solstice is tomorrow. My mother always said there are storms for the solstices and equinox, tho she had no explanation why the Fall storms arere on Halloween not September 21. [Perfect Storm, H Sandy, Halloween Noor'easter  in the early 90s...]

Here's some simple ways to take note. Yes longer days, but despite that hopeful notion, the long cold winter has just begun. Time to be slow annd thoughtful, tea and good books.

Merry Christmas from lizzy and Mo.