My plan back in October was to knit tiny mittens as an advent calendar for FB. However what with house selling stuff, and then most of November being taken up with illnesses of one sort or another, I got to ten (and a bit) mitts and realised that it wasn’t sensible to run myself into the ground for something that FB wasn’t old enough to understand.

At that point I was doing it for me, and I was fine with letting it go for this year.

That said I really should take some time over this winter to get them finished and packed away ready for next December. So I’m going to leave them in an obvious place to nudge me to get it done.

The photos aren’t great, since it was getting dark when I took down the decorations, but I wanted to share a new tradition that my sister and I have got going – family decorations.

Each year we’re going to make one for each other and another one for ourselves. I love that it’s going to add even more memories to our trees.

This gingerbread man is mine.

This poinsettia was made by my sister.

Given that I didn’t have a tree this year, they were hung off the beaded wire decorating one the the prints in our living room, and actually it really showed them off. 🙂

W bought me a Persnickity Knits Gigi Clutch for Christmas this year. Actually he bought it in the summer but I had to wait, and I’m ok with that. 🙂

It’s very pretty, and it has lots of pockets, which always makes me happy.

It’s going to be wonderful for knitting on the go – both out and about and around the house.