Happy Friday Folks!
Halloween has finally come and gone. We had a few trick or treater's come to the door in the CUTEST costumes ever. All small kids and just so adorable.
Next up... I know you don't want me to say but I will... Christmas! Halloween has really become the boundary that Christmas doesn't past (unless you're Costco). So here we are 2 days after Halloween and the decorations are put back in their little cubby holes for another year... and now it's the Christmas dec's turn. I'd say we have about 500% more Christmas decs than we do Halloween decs... which is not a hard thing to do considering they consist of a few pumpkins, a mummy candy stand and a witch with a broken nose (poor witch).
The next couple of weeks will see the house slowly turn into a winter wonderland with Christmas Trees and garland around every corner. Every surface in our house will be subjected to the wonder that is Christmas. AND I LOVE IT!
I don't really get all wrapped up (pardon the pun) in all the commercialism of Christmas and only buy gifts for those closest to me. No endless shopping trips for me NO WAY! Instead I choose to steep myself in the feeling that this Season brings. My boyfriend especially LOVES walking in downtown St. John's. Hot Chocolate and lazy evenings spent in downtown's cozy cafe's are calling my name. There's something about watching the hustle and bustle on the street, and seeing people wrapped up in plush coats and wooly mittens and scarf's that just makes my heart warm. I long for this feeling even now as I type up this post!
This morning I also heard my first Christmas song on the radio... I feel that it's still a little early for the x-mas tunes - it takes forever to put of our Christmas decs so that is justifiable :) See I'm not entirely crazy ;) But boy I cannot WAIT to pop in those Christmas CDs in the car's CD player!!! I'll hold off on this for another couple of weeks if my willpower holds out. I remember one year I started playing x-mas music super early and by the time the big day finally rolled around it didn't really feel like Christmas at all - I had worn out Christmas!!! I won't be doing that this year!!!!
In stitchy news (that is a bit Christmas-y admittedly), after some excellent advice from all my lovely peeps (aka: devoted followers hehe) I've decided to keep my L&L WIP on the hoops. I've actually put in about 7hr's of work in on just the bottom half of the tree already - and this is what I have to show.
'Slow going' is the best phrase to describe this project. Not much to show for so much work... BUT I SHALL persevere!
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
Ciao for now :)
Melissa
Hi Melissa! I am focusing on fall and Thanksgiving down here.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you did not throw out your pretty Christmas stitching.
Wow! I wait until December 1st to do any decorating for Christmas, which i haven't really done in 3 years. Maybe this year I will pull some stuff out again :)
ReplyDeleteNo decorating over here yet. :\ But it's our tradition to decorate for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. So I have to wait! :P
ReplyDeleteYou made some good progress!
~McKenna
Persevere with that stitching you will love it when finished. I have done that piece and it looked lovely. We have Guy Fawkes night (Nov 5th) next and then I can really concentrate on Christmas.
ReplyDeleteYour post was so wonderful - it brought to mind all the reasons why I do so love this time of year. My Halloween are being put away this weekend, but since our Thanksgiving comes in November - Santa will have to wait to come out until the Turkeys go to bed... Enjoy your day
ReplyDeleteYour progress is great! Keep plugging along...you'll be glad you did when it's all finished and on display. Your post just described to the letter my feelings for this season. Bring on the hot chocolate, decorations, and warm evenings at home with family. 'Tis the season...almost ;)
ReplyDeletebeautiful stitching..i love it so much xxx
ReplyDeleteThe L&L piece looks great! I love Christmas with all my heart but it doesn't really get cold enough here to feel festive. Have fun putting up those decorations!
ReplyDeleteGood for you for keeping at it!
ReplyDeleteOur Christmas decorations will be put up the first weekend of December since we are away for the last bit of November. But, I'm going to dig some of them out soon so they are somewhere easy to reach when we get back from vacation.
We lived in Newfoundland in 2002-2004. I loved downtown St John's at Christmas. Your post has brought back such good memories. We loved Newfoundland period for that matter. Back home now in the US, we have our Thanksgiving later this month and then will begin the Christmas decorating. I'm hoping my 2012 Clarenville ornament will arrive in time.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy your blog!
Michele
Your stitching looks lovely! I think that I will start on Christmas decorations after Remembrance Day.
ReplyDeleteHi Melissa - Your L&L is sweet - I love those designs, but the confetti stitching drives me nuts. I admire your perseverance, and I'm sure you'll be happy you finished it. I won't tell you what happened to my Celtic Autumn when I was aobut 1/4 way through! Enjoy your christmas decorating; it's the part of the season I enjoy best too.
ReplyDeleteColleen
Great progress Melissa. I'm so glad you decided to finish it. I also love christmas time. The only time I wish I lived somewhere to enjoy the sights and sounds of the season. We hung up the icicle lights outside yesterday. So we made a very tiny dent. lol
ReplyDeleteLinda
I hope you will show your home full of lovely Christmas decorations! Your WIP is so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI always wait to listen to Christmas music until the day after (American) Thanksgiving, but then it's ALL CHRISTMAS ALL THE TIME!!! =)
ReplyDeleteOMG, how much christmas stuff have you got?? It puts us to shame :D
ReplyDeleteLovely progress on your stitching! I looks soo hard but am sure it will look ever so nice when finished!!
I hear you about getting excited for Christmas! We don't usually put up our stuff until 2nd week of December though since we celebrate on January 7th, Orthodox Christmas. We like to keep our tree up until Jan 14th so having it up really early would also wear us out!! Your stitching is lovely and hopefully it'll be complete for Christmas!!
ReplyDeleteI think it is a little early for the xmas music too. But I have been doing some shopping :)
ReplyDeleteGreat progress on your Christmas stitching.
Have a great weekend!
Great progress on your WIP. It's always a bit slow going when you stitch trees, particularly Christmas trees. But once you're done with it, your stitching will speed up.
ReplyDeleteGreat progress on you WIP
ReplyDeleteIt may be a slow-to-stitch piece, Melissa, but it sure is a beauty :)
ReplyDeleteHave fun decorating...we don't put up anything here until Thanksgiving is over!
Aaaa, no, I cannot think about Christmas yet! We usually wait until after the US Thanksgiving -- it gives me something fun to do on Black Friday when everyone else is out going crazy at stores.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you chose to keep on truckin' with your Christmas piece. It's going to look beautiful when done!