The problem with being so productive that you don’t have time to blog about it is what to say when you finally do find time. It’s something of a let down to have been writing posts in your head for days only to find that there is now too much to put into one post and you are too tired to find anything witty enough to say to make that post worth reading. Dot points will have to do. At least there are photos.

Tuesday

1. My Mother in law came. We all love my mother in law - especially Isabelle.
2. She brought the decorations, which were promptly applied to the tree.

3. Two adults to one child apparently allows more than twice the productivity of one adult to one child.

Wednesday

4. The second French Market Bag is done. I hope it dries in time. Would a hair dryer help do you think?

5. My Grafting really isn’t great. Felting saved this bag from, well, ugly grafting.
6. My weaving of ends is really quite neat, at least I got something right.
7. The yarn for my last christmas knitting project had the bad manners to turn up. If yarn for christmas knitting is unable to arrive in a timely manner then it is my opinion that it should be so completely tardy that one cannot possibly feel compelled to put that project back on the to do list.
8. I made christmas pudding for the first time ever. After putting the first half of the ingredients into the biggest mixing bowl I own (which is not small) I realised that my mother in law was right. Only a bucket would do.

9. While it boiled for ELEVEN hours we baked an obscene number of gingerbread cookies for Isabelle to give as gifts.

Thursday

10. The first Booga Bag I started is now knitted, felted and blocking.

11. It is not going to be dry on time. What is the point of getting the knitting done in time if you still can’t hand it over?

12. We decorated noodle boxes to put Isabelle’s cookies in.
13. Isabelle LOVES glue

14. Pretty much every single item in my tiny pantry fell out and onto my head at some point yesterday. Today I bought a gazillion matching containers and now it looks like this

15. while cleaning the pantry I found my almonds. The fact that they were in the pantry meant they were not in the puddings I just boiled for ELEVEN hours. I had a quick look at the recipe, I noticed 4 other ingredients that didn’t make it in either. Lucky for me none of them are likely to matter, but in future I plan to make pudding based on the recipe rather than the shopping list.

Tomorrow will be far less action packed - decorate those cookies and do a lot of grocery shopping. That is all.