Week In Review - November 26 - December 2

Christmas shopping is finished (I think). Just awaiting the packages to arrive in the mail, or UPS, whichever.

We have a tiny, tiny tree. Like 1 foot tall. But that is all which we have room for. Lady K has an advent calendar countdown of tiny presents. Boy, does she know the numbers 1 to 24 now!

A beautiful sunrise sent us on our way on Friday for a shopping trip to Missoula.

One of the downfalls of Helena (or some people might think it's positive) is there isn't any 'shopping' to be done here. No mall. No bookstore where you can go and sit in the cafe and peruse magazines and books. No Best Buy for electronics. No Krispy Kreme!

And does Lady K love her road trips to Missoula! 

Saturday had us at PetSmart for looking at 'critters' and making a turtle Christmas ornament. Lady K was a little disappointed they didn't have a lizard for her to hold, but she survived. Texter and I were disappointed we couldn't take the 'free kitties' home with us.

Thursday afternoon saw Texter and me at 'school', leading the class in making paper chains for holiday decorating. We have 3 more afternoons between now and Christmas we are going in and doing crafts with the kids. It was so much fun and the kids were 'thank you for coming' and 'this is fun', even though we know they do crafts every day. We have bags for them to carry their 'ornaments' home with them on the last day we do crafts.

Friday was clue 2 in the On Ringo Lake Mystery Quilt. 

I have them cut out and ready to start sewing 200 flying geese blocks! Normally I hate making flying geese blocks, but with my Bloc Loc rulers and how to make 4 at a time, they are so easy now.

It will be interesting to see how they pair up with last week's blocks.

I also started a year-long knitting project. 

The girl who taught my drop spindle class this summer is also a pattern designer and asked for testers to make a 'Big Sky Weather' scarf.

Much like the premise of a temperature quilt or afghan, we are knitting according to the sky that day.

I am doing two rounds per day. The purple is a 'set up' ribbing and it's being knitted in the round, which should be an interesting scarf.  So the scarf above was started on the 1st, which started out sunny (yellow) and then turned partly cloudy (pale blue). Then on the 2nd, it was cloudy and a darker blue was used. Today is snowing so I will be doing a white for today for 2 rows. It's going to be interesting when I move to North Carolina soon and see what it does. However, a temperature quilt is still on my to-do list!

Otherwise this week...

• Successfully completed NaNoWriMo (as in I did get 50,000 words in)
• Had a planning time at Starbucks for the coming month
• Started the decrease of my Corner-2-Corner afghan (which is almost 6 feet square when finished!)
• Letter off to friend 
• Finished 4 books

This coming week...

• Saturday is "Breakfast with Santa"
• Finishing up last week's Mystery Quilt clue and starting on this week's
• Another craft day
• Lots of reading and crocheting
• Waiting on packages to arrive!

But for now, more coffee!