Pajamas didn’t happen today. I looked at the cut-out pjs and just wasn’t in the mood to zip them together. Instead, I decided to start on something that has been hanging over me for a couple of years.
When my first niece Katelyn was born, I started a tradition of giving a Christmas ornament to each of my nieces and nephews on Christmas Eve. I try to find them ornaments that reflect their interests and obsessions. By the time they graduate from high school, they should have a collection of ornaments that serve as a kind of timeline of the story of their lives.
To complete their collections, I give them tree toppers in their senior year of high school. For the following years, I give them other stuff that would complete a tree—lights, plain ball ornaments, a tree skirt...
So I started working on Zoe’s tree skirt today. This is all I have done so far. This will take a while, but hopefully it will be just right for her when it’s done. Then I have to do one for Kathryn who is a college freshman… I don’t have that one designed in my head yet.
I didn’t realize just how involved the catlings get in my creative process. When I put the sewing machine away for the night, Fergus came over to see what I had accomplished so far.
Thank goodness for his supervision.
Well, Fergus? Do you approve?
ReplyDeleteFergus doesn't really have any opinions. He is very pretty, but not terribly bright. A sadly all-too-common phenomenon. :)
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