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DPP #4: Over-committed edition

December 4, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

I very nearly forgot to do a photo today, and with the natural lighting gone I had to make do with a pretty horrible photo. Sigh. Tomorrow I’ll do better. Maybe. If I don’t forget, again.

So, I most definitely over-committed when I decided I could knit 2 hats a week. I wasn’t taking into consideration any other things that might happen in life. Like late work nights, or feeling awful and not feeling up for knitting. Or, you know, housework (contrary to what I often dream, laundry doesn’t get magically washed around here, nor are the dishes magically clean as soon as you eat them, floors don’t automatically vacuum themselves, etc).

Actually, ignore that last paragraph, because it’s bullshit. I haven’t kept up with them because, yes, I’ve had Real Life™ things going on that have limited my time. But let’s face it – like everything in life, if you really want to do something you’ll make the time. And I guess after the first 4 hats I just lost interest. And a lack of interest breeds procrastination, which mutates into full-blown giving up. And that’s where I am, 5 hats in to my goal of 10. I’m giving up. My heart isn’t in it anymore. It’s just stressful, and that’s a lot of negative energy going into hats that were meant to be a good thing. The hats will be taken to work and dropped in the donation boxes and I’m moving on.

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DPP #3: Ruffles, Mail, and Somewhat Failed Ornaments

December 3, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

My house is an utter mess at the moment, with more projects going at once than I care to think about. A friend asked me a while ago to knit her a ruffle scarf and at the time I wasn’t very busy so I said “Sure!” So, naturally, Friday I find two lovely balls of yarn on my desk at the office. Lucky for me they’re a pretty quick knit!

I had some time to myself this morning, so I worked on finishing up some holiday mail – a package to a penpal I’ve been writing for the last several months, and lots of holiday cards to family and friends!

And then it was on to the holiday ornament failures. A few weeks ago I attempted to recreate something I had found online a while back. You were supposed to use air dry clay, so I bought the first air-dry thing I found at the store, which happened to be a paper clay. Things were all fine and dandy when I first made them but as they’ve dried out they’ve curled. I tried placing something heavy on top to keep them flat but they weren’t drying so I gave up.

So then I moved on to trying mittens. Little acrylic felt mittens with embroidered pretties. It turns out I’m really not great at all at embroidering on felt – it’s difficult to get the stitches close together without, instead, just making a larger hole. And my tree? Yeah, it wasn’t supposed to look all criss-crossed like that. And let’s not discuss the not-pictured snowflake I tried (and failed).

Maybe I’ll paint and hang those clay ornaments, after all.

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DPP #2: Red & White All Over

December 2, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

White chocolate cherry cookies and white chocolate peppermint fudge

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25 Photos of December: Oh, Fudge

December 1, 2012 Marie Leave a Comment

Today began the season of holiday baking for me – the day when I officially start making all the goods to go in the holiday boxes for family and friends. I’m making/baking and freezing a lot of it until a day or so before I have to gift it to keep things fresh and save some sanity so I’m not doing everything all in one weekend. Great grandma’s fudge was made today (well, or close enough. I really don’t have her recipe but the recipe on the back of the marshmallow fluff jar? Totally close to how hers tasted), and there’s a batch of sugar cookie dough in the fridge for cut-outs tomorrow. And white chocolate cherry cookies, which I’m only making for the cherries because I’m totally of the opinion that white chocolate is an abomination.

(I’m participating in Treadway’s December Photo Project these next 25 days. I never feel like I take enough pictures, and since there’s so much going on this time of year I thought it might be fun to capture something each day, even if it’s not all festive and fun! Check out the linked image below and go find some other awesome bloggers participating this year, too)

December Photo Project 2012

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