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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: gmatoy Date: November 24, 2018, 10:58 pm
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Today I got 2 more pieced and quilted. I also got 6 more pieced.
Tomorrow is a stay at home and sew day. I'm chipping away at it!
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: Amara Date: November 24, 2018, 11:53 pm
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Yesterday and today I have been bringing out my Christmas
decorations. I'm taking my time because I don't want to be
overwhelmed. But at
heart I tend more toward minimalism than maximum-ism and for
some reason when I got everything out it began to seem to be too
much. Perhaps that's because last Saturday and today I hit my
favorite thrift store's annual Christmas Boutique, which is
wonderful. I didn't buy too much but I guess it feels like it's
adding up. It didn't help that the thrift store itself, a rather
tiny store, was jammed. It honestly felt like there was hundreds
of people in there. This is the sort of thing that makes me,
while outwardly calm, very upset. I don't deal with crowds and
hassles and stress in that sort of atmosphere well at all.
Anyway, this evening, about an hour ago, I was sitting on the
computer but began feeling almost panicky as if I was
suffocating from an insane amount of Christmas stuff. I decided
to do something about it and got up and began to choose things
to re-donate back to the thrift store on Monday, which I am
taking as a vacation day. I included a pretty lighted birch tree
I had purchased from Pottery Barn in March or April for these
holidays and a gorgeous red burlap oversized bow I had thought
would make a nice tree topper from Etsy in the summer. Both
unused--and now both, along with a bunch of ornaments and other
things, are in a pile by the front door to be put into my car's
trunk tomorrow.
I cannot express how relieved I feel at having done this. I hate
spending money (good money in the case of the birch tree) and
then not keeping it, but keeping it is the worst option. I
probably would have used it if I didn't have my red tree but I
do and I don't want to hang onto it for years until I decide to
downsize from my 5-foot tree I have now.
I was actually feeling sick as if I had seen too much Christmas
stuff and bought too much. Making the decision and taking the
action has made me feel a lot better.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: gmatoy Date: November 25, 2018, 12:47 am
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Amara, so glad that you could tell why you were feeling
overwhelmed and that you knew what to do to take care of
yourself. This time of the year does seem like an excess of
everything, doesn't it? That is part of the reason I try to make
some of my gifts. More of a gift of the heart.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: Amara Date: November 25, 2018, 3:21 pm
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Thank you, gmatoy. (I am sorry I didn't see your reply until
just now.)
It was the right thing to do. I took the stuff out to my car
this morning and added a few other things as well. It's now out
of my home and I am so relieved. And last night I got the tree
put together.
While watching a couple of episodes of The Rockford Files online
this morning I finished putting red ribbons on my ornaments in
order to hang them on the tree. So I am all ready to decorate
the tree! Stockings have been hung, the tiny forest has been put
together and for that lovely Christmas-y smell I have a Trader
Joe's wreath hung where the cats cannot get to it. Happy!
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: SioCat Date: November 25, 2018, 4:11 pm
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Yesterday, I put up a tree and decorated my house. I haven’t
done that in over 12 years. I didn’t realize how happy it would
make me, but it did.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: gmatoy Date: November 25, 2018, 7:45 pm
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Today I took a break from making mug rugs. I had hit the wall on
those, so I made a cloth book for our grandson instead. It
turned out perfectly. So there's a win and a gift ready to go!
I just pinned the bias tape down on one of the mug rugs, so I
can sew it after dinner.
It is the bias tape and mitered corners that have me dragging my
feet about finishing the mug rugs. Silly, but true.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: gmatoy Date: November 28, 2018, 11:09 am
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So, I was right about bias tape and mitered corners on this
project. The insulbright makes it just stiff enough that I can
not easily maneuver it. Back to the drawing board . . . they
will now have rounded corners. I have actually finished one. I
have today through next Monday off and will work on them except
for tomorrow when I'm going, with my very good friend, to go to
the Victorian Christmas festival held in our neighboring city.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: Amara Date: November 28, 2018, 11:22 am
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[quote]Victorian Christmas festival [/quote]
Doe this festival have a website? (I feel like drooling a bit.)
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: gmatoy Date: November 28, 2018, 4:58 pm
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[quote author=Amara link=topic=84.msg20195#msg20195
date=1543425774]
[quote]Victorian Christmas festival [/quote]
Doe this festival have a website? (I feel like drooling a bit.)
[/quote]
Here you go:
HTML http://www.avictoriancountrychristmas.com
When it first opened, it was mostly hand made items. Now much
more commercial, but there are stores from places that I 'd
never be able to get to and the people working the booths are
all dressed in Victorian garb (or as close to it as we're likely
to see.) Friend is driving; I'm paying our way in and lunch is
on me. I'm so looking forward to seeing some good gift ideas!
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2018
By: Aleko Date: November 29, 2018, 3:21 am
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I feel kind of bereft, as I always used to roast a goose for
Christmas. That's a real hassle (you have to pour off the fat
halfway through, which with a bird that actually overhangs your
biggest roasting pan at all four corners is no mean feat - and
there is no substance in nature greasier than goose fat,
delicious and multi-useful as it is), but something I loved to
do. It's more special than anything else you could cook, in part
just because it's such hard work; it's
right-back-to-the-Middle-Ages traditional; and it's my favourite
meat in all the world. But now my Christmas Day party is down to
me, DH, and one aged parent apiece, neither of whom eats a lot,
it really no longer makes sense. I have a commercially-made
rolled, boned and stuffed goose roast all ready in my freezer,
which will be absolutely fine as a centrepiece to Christmas
dinner and will make life a LOT easier not only for me but for
DH who has to carve it, but it still makes me just a little bit
sad. :'(
However I do need to make a start soon on my spiced pressed salt
beef, which is due to make its annual appearance on Boxing Day.
If it failed to appear (and one year I nearly did forget, and
had to make a desperate last-minute appeal to my butchers to
magic me a piece of ready-salted beef) there might be divorce
papers served in January, my DH loves it so much.
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