Yesterday’s picture inspired me to take some shots of my favorite snowmen. I have a small collection and display them throughout the winter. (nevermind that it’s freakin’ 60-something degrees here!)

This snowman family is by far my favorite. In fact, it may be my all time favorite decoration. These little guys were my mother’s. When I was little I loved them – I can remember playing with them. They must not have been too expensive, otherwise I would never have been allowed to go near them. Mom was a school teacher and during the holidays would receive a number of gifts from her students. I bet that this set was such a present.

At some point, my mother stopped putting these out in favor of other knick knacks. Lucky for me she never threw a single thing away. Years ago I was thrilled to see them in a Christmas decoration box in the corner of our attic.

Knitting time has been limited this week in favor of more hours at the knitting shop, as well as a gift wrapping session last night.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

these guys caught my eye on my recent Costco shopping trip. They were in the merchandise return line.

: ( poor snowmen.

In a desperate search for blog fodder, I decided to see what I was doing at this time last year. Maybe it will spark some kind of internal conversation that I can replay today. This meant a scan through my archives.

I am simple minded. Easily amused. This is the only explanation.

As I am reading my archives, I am not remembering any of it and am laughing my ass off at the jokes and my clever way with words as though seeing it all for the very first time! I’m thinking, I love this girl and I can hardly wait to read more to see what happens next.

this cannot be a good thing.

so now I have to go – when I left me, I was telling a joke about a couple of kids & their foray into cursing …….

I mentioned that I have done a lot of online holiday shopping. That includes buying some things for me : )

I would like to tell you how much I love these ice lantern molds from Lee Valley. I have been a veritable ice lantern factory over here – so far, I’ve made six and unless I clear some room in the freezer, that will be my maximum number. They are about the size of a ½ gallon of ice cream – so if you live in an area where daytime temps are enough above freezing, you need to have room in your freezer.

We had a fabulous holiday weekend. It was the nicest, most relaxing Thanksgiving I can remember. D#1 was home. The girls hung out together (which reminded me of all the times I wished I had a sister), we got all the Christmas decorations up, I did some knitting ……

and some more f-ing ripping! that was the only unrelaxing part. This time it was not the yarn, it was me! I did not like the way I managed the honeycomb pattern along the decreases of the underarm. At first I was just going to leave it be, but then I thought I took the time to rip for the areas of color deficiency, so what sense does it make to adopt a ‘no one will notice’ attitude now’?