Christmas

• Wee Winter Bird

  Inspired by some fabric I saw recently, this is my version of an ice skating birdy.  I'm thinking of drawing a collection of them to put on my Christmas cards this year.  (Drew this one during my lunch hour on Tuesday.) xo ~ k

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• Holiday Evenings

  Did a little present wrapping and tree decorating tonight.  Now it's time so sit down with some hot spiced cider and gingerbread – my favorite.  Yum. I had forgotten about this cute little felt reindeer I got last year.  Found her at the feed store actually, when I was buying chicken food.  The angel beside

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• Nice Mice

  Isn't she a sweetie?  She's all tucked-in to a walnut shell.  :)  I remembered when I was a kid that my mom & I had made some little ornaments like this, although it seems like we made babies in shells instead of mice. If you want to go that route, it's easy to paint a

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• Sweets

  Normally, we don't have this much candy in the house.  Really!  :)   This weekend though, we set up to decorate… Gingerbread houses!  I've wanted to make one for years, but never quite get around to baking the house.  Since they had these cute & already assembled ones at the grocery store, I decided to take

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• Solstice

  Light is on the way!  At this time of year in Alaska, we greet the morning in the dark and drive home from work in the dark.  Winter solstice is that important pivot point after which we finally start gaining light again.  I do love Alaska, but if I ever leave – the dark may

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• Warm and Merry Christmas Eve!

  I'm not quite back yet officially, but wanted to share this little story by John Henry Falk.  You can read the story on this page, but it's so much better to hit the "listen now" button and enjoy! Ok, as long as I'm here I might as well show you the felted stocking I made:

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• Eggnog Latte kinda day

  Soon, soon I'll be back with new drawings and little bits and things.  But for now the Holidays have taken over – we got our Christmas tree tonight!  The earliest ever.  I'm not entirely sure it will still be alive by the 25th, but we really wanted a real tree this year (instead of pulling

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• Welcome December!

  After taking a day off, I'm back in gear with the making-of-things and have just packaged up my first delivery of holiday baking… Which so far includes: ***click on the words above to download a pdf of the recipe*** And… The Guinness Cake is one of my favorites.  It's not too sweet…almost tastes like a

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• Do you recall?

  The most famous reindeer of all?  Ok, that's too easy.  But what about the other names? This became a topic today and we did finally remember all of them.  Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of

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