Yesterday was a fun day. It began with my now infamous routine to the 12 Days of Christmas that I use every year in water aerobics. My students put up with a lot, let me say. No photos to protect the guilty.
Also, I collected supplies for the annual tradition of Christmas cookie baking:
Two delightful sisters stopped by to make them:
Resulting in edible art:
I already have my post-Christmas knitting planned. First up, some socks from The Knitter’s Book of Socks which I got at the Soccupy Oakland event last month. The pattern is Lady Tryamour by Sivia Harding, and the yarn is Staccata by Shi Bui – it is quite lovely!
And for my Tweet-up friend Eric, there are some fingerless mittens coming -out of this yarn:
Because that’s a what a knitter does for her friends.
As we enter this time of celebration of so many holidays and observances that talk about light, I wish to all the hope that light brings to our lives.
