No photos taken this year yet, maybe tomorrow.
We had a good Christmas, just the two of us at home with so much food it was only finished 5 days later and that was after entertaining three others!
So what happened?
Well, we were both up at a reasonable time and after the brekkers of fresh bread and slow-cooked ham joint we opened a present each.
I opened an unexpected parcel from the Catalyst team at Infolab and was greeted by something really rather cool.
It's a tree! But the best part is it contains an Arduino and once the software is written and running on my PC the lights will reflect how Tilley the Turbine is doing. Green will be excellent power production and red will be poor/off.
We'd spent a couple of hours on Christmas Eve preparing the food so cooking was a leisurely affair and I got to chill while Jo went to church and the house slowly filled with the smell of cooking turkey. We decided to eat lunch in the living room as the kitchen was far too cold! This did mean that Madam stickhound spent a good 20 minutes sitting next to Jo swearing to give her his lunch. Didn't work.
She did get a doggy cracker though! Bizarrely the packet said "to be opened by adults only" I did open it for her but only because she didn't understand what to do and as there was no food contained she wasn't fussed about getting into it :p It included a hat which Madam wore:
For all of five minutes.
Jo's morning pressie was a very punny tshirt from his little sister:
Once we'd put food out of doggy range we got to opening the rest of our pressies. Some silly, some useful and some random.
I won't bore folks with the list, but it was a good selection and much fun. It did include some home made multisurface cleaner from our soap making friends. Took me 2 hours over 2 days, but I completely cleaned 2 years worth of grime off the inside of the oven door! You can now see the status of your cooking items without opening it. Just have to clean it every so often so I DON'T have to spend 2 hours and lots of energy on it.
I thought I'd summarise 2013 in craft terms. So I present all the things I knit/crocheted during 2013:
(I actually made 12 of these, but posting all those is just silly)
(ditto the 26 of these)
Finally, these are the Christmas presents I was asked to knit:
My MIL wanted a tea cosy, she specified "Tiree colours" and after seeing my jumper she said she wanted sheep. I went with sheep at sunset:
With pom-pom! It was a nice simple knit and I got to try "steeking" where you reinforce some stitches and then CUT YOUR KNITTING! It's quite the scary idea but once you're done the exhilaration is amazing.
Younger sister in law wanted a bobble hat in burgundy and white.
I didn't have any suitable white but I did have a nice natural cream that really sets off the burgundy.
No Tiree colours this time, but those "bunnies" could conceivably be hares.
So that's a tiny summary of 2013. Want to see the rest? Just read the previous posts on here.
Happy 2014 to all who read this blog and may the new year bring new joy.
TTFN
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