Is it Christmas Yet?

With the cool nip of fall in the morning air, a sudden urge to create takes over my being and I find my days turning into flights of fancy driven by compulsion.

Between fits of binge cooking for a week in advance, then spring cleaning on a weekly basis for some reason, I'm also feeling the deadline of Christmas fastly approaching, so I'm forced to address my mountain of sewing tasks that I have all but forgotten during those long & lazy warm summer months.

With eight children, and now three of them with significant others and my first grandchild on the way, my normally daunting tasks have exploded this year into herculean proportions! So it's off to sew, but I have a few other interests to occupy my down time such as: cabinetry, candle making and jewelry crafts, so idle hands will not be an issue this year! (Pray for me).

Cabinetry you ask, well, new grand child needs dressers, and the kids like their furnishing in the Log Cabin motif, so how much wood can this old woodchuck chuck? A four drawer and a three drawer chest of drawers worth, that's how much! In my living room no less. Did I mention it was getting colder, so the non heated detached garage is just out of the question.

Oh, and did I forget to mention that 10K bug? Well, turns out I've signed up for two more 5K events and I'm going to do two half marathons in 2011. I have two certain friends to thank for this new found self imposed bench marking, and you know who you are!

See you in the funny papers~