IHSW - December 2012 Report

Hopefully Joysze will forgive me for joining up last minute.  The stitching has been somewhat last minute as well.  Two reasons for that - the first being Christmas - the time needed to do the shopping, the card writing, the parties and so on and so forth.

The second - well, this is not a good time of year for me.  Things start going downhill when the clocks go back and only start to pick up very slowly after the Winter Solstice.  So Christmas comes round when I am already scraping the bottom of the barrel - Christmas, with its expectations of festive cheer and goodwill to all.  I am not a Scrooge or a Bah Humbug - I love my family dearly and enjoy spending time with them.  It's just that life would sometimes be easier if I could hibernate until the sun comes back.

I have some progress to show on the watering can bouquet, which still looks nothing like a watering can.  I hope to be able to give it a handle and/or a spout this week - at the moment, it looks like some kind of strange jelly!

Here is Carnation with the usual three blocks of progress.  Next week will see me into row 5 of this page, so steady progress.

I have a full week of work this week, but this does include our floor's lunch-time fuddle (faith lunch) and possibly a team lunch (should be tomorrow but apparently postponed due to demands of work).  The powers that be have given us Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off extra - the cynics amongst us reckon that it's cheaper to give us the time off than to open the office for one day.  So I finish on Friday, am back in work next Thursday for one day, and then off until the following Wednesday - two five day weekends with only one day in the office - I might even manage to get some stitching done :-)

So I will wish you all the best with your remaining preparations (if you are celebrating) and all the best anyway if you're not.