Made It Today

Uhm... Where did January go? The 15th? Already? In fact there's only about 30 minutes until the 16th... So I better make this quick.

The last few weeks I've been slowly putting together the gifts I should have had finished a month ago. Sorry friends, but I swear your things will be in the mail this coming week. I mean poor Billy hasn't even got his calendar yet, and the whole thing was designed with him in mind. Le sigh.



I put this lil' lunch bag together the other night. It's for a very special person who will be starting off on a new career soon, and will now have an incredibly fashionable snacking accessory to bring to work. It's just a simple tote bag, with an unbleached cotton lining. I think I'll make a few more with bits of velcro inside, or maybe add a little ribbon tie to fancy it up. Amy Butler fabric, lovely to work with of course.

I decided to pick up an easy knitting project to stave off complete crafting despair, so a couple nights ago I started knitting a hot water bottle cover. I'm making it with a thick, soft, felting wool, and am rather looking forward to the finished product. Hot water bottles are so cozy, and mine will no longer have to be wrapped in an old pillow case, because it will have it's very own fuzzy sweater.

In other news my life has been changed forever by the arrival of a Bamboo drawing tablet. Did I mention I'm the luckiest gal around? Steve picked one up for me last night, but couldn't get it working until this morning. Not that he didn't try to make it work for I dunno, 5 hours or so. In the end he had to do some reinstalling of OS blablabla and SO ANYWAYS it works now

AND I AMSOEXCITED!

I made that lil' header up there just now. It's just the first step toward making this place into what I had in mind when I began bloggin'. I kinda got side-tracked by all that xmas jazz, but no excuses now. I have about a million plans for how this tablet is going to help me along the artsy path, and so far it's been a real pleasure to use.

inanycase, I need to sleep. it's like, the 16th or somethin'. darnit.