Road Work Ahead. Expect Delays!

If the road to Hell really is paved with good intentions, my personal highway to Hell is getting resurfaced this month. By January it will be a nice smooth black with crisp new lines and there may even be a new lane.

After Christmas last year I decided I was going to make gifts for the next Christmas. Mad dash, last minute, purchasing of gifts at Target just isn't the way I like to do Christmas. It just doesn't seem like the true Christmas spirit. Of course with commercialism and all the hoopla maybe today's Christmas spirit is smashed in a cutesy gift envelope along with a gift card from your favorite big box store.

Anyway, I like making things. I like thinking about the person and trying to make something just for them. I imagine the receiver of the gift may pull off the wrapping paper and think, "Why can't she just do gift cards like everybody else? What am I supposed to do with this?" but I hope they begrudgingly use the gift and then realize they always needed a crocheted cover for the handle of their toilet brush, they just didn't know it.

So, the plan was to start in January and make at least a gift a month until I was done. I started the first gift in January and I finished it in October. One down! About the middle of last month I had the, "Holy Crap!" moment and began frantically sewing. Many yards of fabric and about 3 spools of thread later I am seven down and two to go. Unfortunately, one of those is a puppet theater for Drama Queen. Good thing my mom has a good sewing machine at her house, because we leave on Saturday and there isn't a Zhu Zhu Pet's chance in Wal-mart I am going to get it done before then.

And by Hell, I am not going to go through this frantic sewing thing again. It's just too stressful. Next year I will be on top of it! I am going to start in January and make a gift a month.