What a wonderful week! We didn't work at all, but played, played,
cooked, ate & played some more. My parents came over twice with
their Canasta cards. Dad & I make a formidable team. My brother, Ryan, brought over Rock Band. I killed my first two songs, 'I'm So Sick" & "Psycho Killer."
At least 'the band' told me so, but they might have just been wooing me
to stick around. Which I did, playing the guitar & the base guitar
as well (I avoided the drums - those looked impossible). There were
movies mixed in and one trip to the gym with Rachel. Turkey-roasting,
pie-making, table-decorating, good-food-eating, nephew-squeezing. A
memorable Thanksgiving vacation.
I ended up skipping the tablecloth project
for 5 more hours of playtime, but did have fun with the folding-chair
covers. I arranged leaves from disassembled fall garlands onto each
chair back & stapled them (shh) to the copper slip covers. The
centerpiece is a large pile of the silk leaves, ready for raking. You
can't see the leaf pile too well in my photos, but it was a fun touch.
I'm nostalgic for leaf piles as I haven't had fall leaves in my yard
since I was a young girl. I used to splash them about and make a big
mess of my parents' yard-keeping efforts. We had some great backyards
when I was little. One house had a stream in the backyard and a huge
vegetable garden. One had a ravine, a hammock in the trees, and wild
daffodils.
I'm planning a trip to PA next spring. I'm considering adding a couple of days onto the trip to explore my childhood neighborhoods there. We lived in OH for a while too.
We're back in swing today. The furniture is freshly re-arranged from the carpet incident, the house is clean, the refrigerator is full, and the air smells of cinnamon pine cones. Though I'm in the thick of designing my next collections, we're excited to fully participate in the holidays this year. Last year was a crazy, worky blur. We're not doing that again.
