Some Ridiculously Few Amount of Days Till Christmas

Well, It's been an interesting summer for me.  My hands were fixed.  Turns out it was a little brain met pressing where it shouldn't.  A short trip to Winnipeg for radiation (wonderful machine that doesn't bore holes straight through your brain) fixed that and my visual problems.  Unfortunately, I then got a bacterial disease that tried to eat my leg- the night before surgery the best case scenario was that they would clean out my foot the best they could with damaging tendons and then there would be a series of skin grafts.  They asked permission to take the leg to the knee if they needed to.  The good news is there were no skin grafts, just 6 weeks of wound care, and I still have my leg although it is decidedly black in color still.  At the same time I also got Kidney stones, and a clot in my left leg that went from the back of my knee to just above my belly button.  Still working on that one.

When I was well on the way to being repaired

Onto good news!  I completed all the socks and mittens for the museum fundraiser.  Once those were stitched you painted them with white glue front and back, and then glued on felt.

I hope they raise a fair amount.  For next year I want to do little felt animals.  Mom made them for me when I was a kid - Mr. & Mrs. Skunk, Possum, Fox etc.  Put some little Christmas outfits on them and they should be cute.

I am almost done the nativity scene as well.  If I had known how much work that was going to be I would have saved my $50.00.  They are full of colour changes and..... as a result look absolutely spectacular!  My favorite is the Camel.  I've stitched them all, traced and attached the felt backings and stuffed them all.  Now I need to add aquarium rock, so they don't tilt over I suspect, trace the bottoms onto felt, cut those on and then whip stitch it all together.  I think another 3 weeks to a month will see them done.  

Then it will be time for Christmas cards......