Whether you are safe and snug and warm in your little house in the woods like in the snowglobe, or traveling to visit family and friends, hope you all have a Happy Christmas.
I’m safe and snug but just had to kick up the heat so I get to “warm”. I think the fog – the never ending fog – has really brought the chill into the apt this morning and the temps have dropped. No White Christmas here – dare I say that a “little” snow would be pretty but it also has been nice not having below zero temps and inches and inches of snow like we had at this time last year.
Here’s what Christmas Day looked like last year
Look at that sunshine and blue sky and sparkling snow.
Here is today — the fog has lifted up out of the trees tho the photo makes it look a bit brighter out there than it really is. You can’t really tell from my photo but the top of the hill is actually looking green. I think because of all the fog and upper 30 temps Mother Nature thinks it might be the spring thaw rather than winter not really having started yet. 🙂
But much better weather for anyone traveling this holiday season.
My greatest dilemma for today — knit or sew or both;
what to make for dinner since I have many delicious selections in the fridge/freezer depending on how much work I want to go to;
wondering why I didn’t make myself any breakfast goodie for this Christmas morning!!!!! Christmas tradition was Mom made caramel pecan sticky rolls or a particular coffeecake we all loved. My parents are in Nashville for a gather before a family wedding next week and my brother requested that Mom make “THE coffeecake” and bring it — the lucky devil. 🙂 We all know that “the” coffee cake is made with a sweet roll type dough but then there’s two toppings that can go on it (which is why it’s made in cake pans or similar size so you can make several and use both toppings). It either has this great streusel and then powdered sugar glaze on top, or it has cinnamon and coconut and then the glaze. I love both but am a big coconut fan. I just may need to make some this week at some point.
But I digress into the world of delicious coffee cake. Hmmm time to go see if there are blueberries in the freezer (I’m sure there are) and mix up some muffins I think. And then I have a couple of gifts under the tree I haven’t opened yet from a quilting friend in California that I haven’t even ripped open early (except for the little box of See’s candy she sent!).
I hope to get the remaining borders on my niece’s wedding quilt and I’m doing a mystery quilt for the TQP yahoo group – the weekend after New Year’s instead of our usual NYE date – so need to figure out: Do I have fabrics in the stash that will work or do I need to order some quickly or go to the LQS before then. So need to do a little stash diving.
Justquiltin with Denise Russart 