I feel that today we're coming out of hybernation a little... Mr M has gone back to work, one boy is at a friend's house, a friend is visiting, all signs of Christmas will be obliterated ready to make way to Mr M's birthday tomorrow, and the washing machine has been going non-stop since the early hours.
And you know how it goes... new year... new... things. My fingers are itching to do some sewing, my head is itching to tackle unfinished projects and begin new ones...
It's quite an exciting, buzzing sort of feeling.
The house is getting a bit of spruce up too.
When we were in Nashville in October we visited the amazing Hatch Show Print shop (now relocated in the Country Music Hall of Fame) and couldn't help coming away with a few pieces. There is something about letterpress printing that is really warm and real, don't you think.
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Now to the tree... urgh... But first a funny story. A couple of years ago the defunct tree was resting by the garage door waiting for its final trip to the dump... it was my turn to take one of the sprogs to rugby and as usual we were late so I remember I quickly put the boots and mud towels in the boot and sped off in the cold January morning. We were driving along, lah lah lah., when I noticed that the other cars were flashing their lights at me/beeping their horn... what the heck was going on. Half way into the journed I stopped to check my car... and yes, in closing the boot I'd trapped the tip of the tree and had been dragging the (now) very sorry thing along with me. Through town. A 6 ft tree. Trapped in the boot. Sigh.
Yup, that's me.
You made my Monday seem much better with that story!
Posted by: Alice Auperin | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 12:01 PM
I love your posts best when they end with 'Sigh'.
Posted by: Sue | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 12:10 PM
Oh glory, mine too. Snowing most of the weekend, blowing a gale and temperature supposed to be minus 10 by 7pm tonight. Love the shawl but would have liked a bit more direction.......
Posted by: Gillie | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 12:10 PM
ha! :)
ps those prints are fab!!
Posted by: carolyn | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 12:17 PM
LOL, too funny about the tree! That Gravy print is fabulous.
Posted by: del | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 01:27 PM
Oh no, the tree incident!! What a thing to happen, you poor thing. I hope that you have better luck this year. Your prints are lovely by the way! xx
Posted by: Amy at love made my home | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 03:40 PM
If I had seen you, I'd have put it down to some fiendishly cunning tree transportation technique to avoid the car being covered in impossible to vacuum away pine needles! It'd probably catch on.
Posted by: domesticali | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 04:53 PM
Ah, but think of all the smiles you created for people that day. They're probably still talking about it. I would be..
Posted by: rusty duck | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 07:34 PM
haha!
Posted by: Francesca | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 08:19 PM
I wish we'd done that when we took ours to the tip. Now I have to wait until it stops raining long enough to go and vacuum out the millions of pine needles.
Posted by: Amanda | Monday, 06 January 2014 at 10:22 PM
OMG, how hilarious! Tears in my eyes I'm laughing so hard. Thank you for the humour. I'm having such a good time reading through your posts. :-)
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Posted by: Elita @ Busy Needle Quilting | Friday, 17 January 2014 at 06:40 PM