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31 december 2008 and so it was

it was an interesting month.

first there was some of this:

i now know that blowing a particular circuit breaker will kill power to half the house -- the half that includes the master bedroom, the master bath, and the half of the front room that includes the computer and my knitting light. i also now know how to fix it, all on my own, for under $5. excellent! then there was a lot of working and shopping and wrapping and packaging. and just as we started to really hit our christmas stride, going to the symphony to kick it all off and planning a number of other yuletide expeditions, there was an awful lot of this:

which was great except it kept us pretty much trapped in the house for ten days. we lounged about a lot, and i tried to work from home a lot, and we decorated a lot, and i really wished i had had all that time earlier in the month when i could have really used it to turn this:

into this:

but nonetheless, that did happen, even if i don't have a better picture of the swallowtail in all its blocked and gifted glory. the person for whom i knit it was very happy and loved the color so all is right in the gifted knitting world. i don't think nearly so many people will receive knitteds this coming year. of course, before i had decided that, i had already knit this:

as a birthday present for my sister. i found two more skeins of that strange bobbly yarn out of which i had knit my pink scarf, only these were in a more sister friendly colorway, so a sister scarf it became. her birthday is in january and as i will see her right before her birthday, i shall hand it over in person, so as to hear all the oohing and aahing. more on why i shall be seeing my dear sister next month; it's all very exciting...

i hope your christmas was as sparkly and beautiful as ours: