Nieces, Christmas trees, and Butterfingers

Above: One of the ornaments I received in a Christmas Ornament Craft Exchange I participated in this year. The homemade ornament above came from my friend Marilisa in the UK. The accompanying note reads: "Before Christmas trees were popularised in Greece (where I come from), people decorated models of boats with lights instead, and children carried them when they went carol-singing, too." Even though my own Christmas Ornament contribution didn't turn out that successfully, I'm very much enjoying the small packages I've been receiving in the mail these past few weeks.

Congrats to my friends Katy and Steve, who got married this past weekend! For those who don't know them, Steve moved from the U.S. to Germany to marry Katy, whom he met at a filk convention. Pretty darned romantic, really. :-)

One of our nieces came to visit us for part of the weekend. Jeff and I took her out for dim sum at Cha Liu, then for dessert at Hollywood Gelato:



No niece visit would be complete, of course, without Sugar Mountain:



The shopping bags at Sugar Mountain happily proclaim: "4 out of 5 dentists recommend Sugar Mountain!" I bought a Butterfinger chocolate bar, which I have to say now rivals Kit Kat as a favourite chocolate bar. According to the official Butterfinger Web site, Nestle also makes Butterfinger Stixx...ooo, I must look for these. Also the Butterfinger Crisp Minis. I hope they're available in Canada.

Sadly, Sugar Mountain didn't have any of the interesting Kit Kat flavours I mentioned in an earlier Blathering.

:-(



Jeff and I also went with my sister and her family for our annual Christmas tree expedition. They've been getting their tree from the same family-run business out in the country for many years. Now that we live in a house, we've started getting our tree from there as well.

The RENOVATIONS ARE FINISHED (yay!!!), so we've put the tree in the place where the spiral staircase used to be located; see the photo above. We still haven't decided how to use this new space longterm, though we're thinking about getting an upright piano next year (YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY). Many reasons to celebrate this past weekend. I even got some novelstuff done, some Urban Tapestry prep, AND an outdoor run.

Link O' The Day:

If'n book-binding video
Most entertaining bookbinding video I've ever seen :-). "See how we make our Buttonhole Stitch Albums at the If'n Books bookbindery! We are joined by some surprise guests." (Thanks to Booklust for the link)




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