So, here we are after Christmas and everyone survived except my living room. Poor living room.. cluttered with MegaBlok Pyrate sets (yes.. it really is spelled that way.. I have no idea why) GI Joe, and Pirates of the Caribbean loot. This year seems to be the year of board games.. my son recieved Sorry, my SIL sent a Pirates of the Caribbean chess set, and we bought ourselves a Pirates of the Caribbean Monopoly game. Christmas day was spent at the inlaws house playing Sorry and the Star Wars edition of Monopoly with my father-in-law.. who is without a doubt the most sore loser I’ve ever met in my entire life.
The best present this year though by far was the digital camera that my husband found at Big Lots for our son.. who has been bugging everyone (including all of the mall Santas that we’ve seen this season…) for a camera ‘like daddy’s”. It is a very simple (and inexpensive) Polaroid 3.2 megapixel with built in flash… and it is the perfect size for a little boy, it even comes with a silicone shell to protect it from being dropped. I have uploaded a bunch of his photos to my computer and am surprised at how well most of them came out.. he’ll definitely be getting a ‘guest post’ shot here on the blog.
I recieved a box in the mail from my ’sis’ Dragon a few days before xmas and couldn’t wait to tear into it. It contained ‘Viking Knits’, ‘Ponchos & Wraps’, and ‘Generation T- 108 ways to transform a t-shirt’ from my Amazon wish list. I went out to the thrift store on “Happy Wednesday” when part of the store is 99 cents.. and picked up a bunch of teeshirts to destroy in the next week. I’m going to be doing some slicing and dicing of shirts while watching “The Devil Wears Prada” that came in from Netflix today. Viking Knits is a really inspiring book with gorgeous celtic cables.. but is way beyond my skill level at the moment. I’m sure that when I am able to read charts and do complex cables that it will be a book I use in designing garments… but right now I’ll just be flipping pages and drooling. Ponchos & Wraps was not the book I thought it was when I put it on my wish list.. I think I mistook it for “Wrap Style”.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve done nothing but open gifts, watch ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ on tv with my husband, and stuff food in my face for the last 8 days of my son’s vacation. There has been no knitting or spinning done, and very little crafting unless you count christmas cookies and play-doh.