Holiday Homecoming

Two of the kids are back--from Washington state and we're over the moon having them back home. Once we met them in Midland, shopping, and general merriment here at the house ensued. It's been a year since I've seen my big and my little kid and at least, this season, we'll be with two out of the three. The big kid is abstaining this year due to the "thing", which means we don't get to see our big kid and his wife, or our grandkids either. <sigh>.

The last Christmas order is being delivered today.

Getting the pillows quilted and ready for couching

The three custom ordered pillow casings

I had to wait until yesterday to get the pillow forms and neglected to get a pic prior to getting them packed and ready to be delivered.

I've also been whittling away at that darn WIPs pile. These are ready to have their sashing attached to them but don't know how much sewing I'll get in this week, which is okay given the trade-off of spending time with my kiddos. 

Sugaridoo BOM from 2020

Hazel missed the kids too.

"What you two doin'?"

She laid in front of their door this morning waiting for them to get up. The kids, however, are still on Pacific time and haven't yet adjusted back to EST so are still snoozing away.

Ever Have One of Those Days?

I'm thinking all the adrenaline from the weekend and then working the day after for seven hours, really zapped me yesterday. I did manage to get my Sugaridoo row done in the morning.

Sugaridoo Month #4; Row #9

And then, lunch. It was downhill from there. No energy. Content to just stay still and watch some bad TV. Content to snuggle with Hazel for the afternoon. I. Did. Nothing. Else.

Zero.

Zip.

Which is very uncharacteristic for me. I'm usually pretty high energy. But today seems a little better. I'm still a little fuzzy in the head despite not being sick or anything. And my energy level seems a little lower than normal. Maybe once I crank up DW things will change.

Speaking of which, and since I haven't in almost a week, that's mostly what I'll be doing today. Long arming. 

I remember when I used to do simple motifs to get warmed up and then delve into other more difficult motifs, such as feathers. Now, feathers are my warm up motif (I'm pretty comfortable with them) to get more in shape for the nearly perfect circles I'm free handing in the current top on the frame. You know, the giant Dresden I'm doing for Mickey. It's about half way there and hopefully today we can wrap things up on it.