23.12.10

We spent Solstice Wishing for more Snow

Day 132

Celebrated Winter Solstice this week with the family....the girls exchanged gifts with each other....bottom line is 'we love thrifting' as they found the perfect gifts...

...a map of Japan, in Japanese for our girl who is fairly fluent after studying on her own for about 6 years now....one day she is hoping to go to school over there...no kidding we found this stuffed behind the shelves of the thrift store....

We are part Greek and rumor has it our family's patron goddess was Athena....and G1 loves owls of all sorts

What do you get for the science geek who has everything? An organic chemistry model set that is brand new with all the pieces AND the guide book...SCORE!

G2 was pretty much refusing pictures so I snapped a few of the books she found at this really cool used book store we discovered in downtown Albuquerque....see that one with the blue lion? It's in Hungarian and has absolutely beautiful illustrations...

and mom's gifts from the girls were a book of Crewel Embroidery and this Arts and Crafts handbook from the 1940s SQUEE....totally in love...

moody musicians, gotta love 'em.....



These are from the snow that stayed on the ground for a day or two....and today we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get snow again tonight....I think we get maybe 1 snow day a year here in Albuquerque....like 5 rain days too come to think of it ....

....Sokka was out running around again in the snow, have never met a freakish cat like him who likes to romp in the wet stuff...anyone got a pattern for a cat jacket and hat? I think I might have to make him something special just for him, probably it is quite embarrassing to be wearing a coat made for a (whispering) dog...

and G2 wondered why her clothes were wet....hmmmmm

the giant snowball became this awesome fort to hide behind while pelting little sister in the head multiple times....




Please let it snow for Christmas....I'm still sewing and creating, how about you?

More updates later with pics of the latest Memory Blanket!

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