Reading list

1. Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
2. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
3. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafasi book club
5. Miss Perigrines Home for Peculiar Children  by Ransom Riggs
6. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
7. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum  I read this after reading Cold Front by Kathleen Taylor, a South Dakota writer, the con artists in the book took their names from characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, as their con was unraveling reference was made to how little Americans read their own literature. I did catch on to the characters.
9. True Sisters by Sandra Dallas about the Mormons pushing carts from Iowa to Salt Lake City in late 1800's.
10. Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini
11. The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell for book club
12. The Way Things Should Be by Christina Baker Kline 
13. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
14. Two Old Women by Velma Wallis for book club a very short book about 2 native Alaskan women surviving and Alaska winter and friendship.
15. Who Was Santa Claus by William Walsh
16. The Knitting Diaries by Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, Christina Skye 3 short stories

Peace on Earth

Merry Christmas--Ann--

Santas and Christmas Tree

 --Ann--

holly

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  Falalalala lalala
  --Ann--

On and off the needles

  I thought the wavy stitch pattern looked like eyebrows.

At 8 pm the other night all my needles were bare!  my Christmas knitting was finished!!!! It was probably the first time since I started knitting socks 2 1/2 years ago that all needles were empty. so what could I do....first I cleaned up the cookie mess in the kitchen then I read for a while, then flipped through the channels about news time...........there was segment on addiction to technology and how some people check their phones hundreds of times during the day.  I am not one of them.  A few more runs through the channels and I was casting on another pair of socks. Knitting is my latest addiction, coffee and chocolate are right up there too, it keeps my hands agile and is a good work out for the brain too and I eventually have something to show for my addiction.I'll probably start another project over the weekend.

Tic tac toe socks from Wendy D. Johnson's book Socks from the Toe Up I adjusted the pattern to fit  31 stitches. I started another pair of gloves for a "to go" project, they will be mindless knitting until I get to the little finger, the stitch pattern on the socks takes concentration and the pattern right in front of me every stitch of the way. Happily addicted to knitting; I may never learn to text.--Ann-- linking to OTN at Judy's

Six Decades of Christmas Trees

Six decades of Christmas trees......

This was made by my Maternal Grandmother in the 1960's every year I glue something back in place.

Triangle tree was made my my great aunt, sister of my maternal grandmother a note on the back to my parents says thank you for hosting 50th anniversary party in 1976.

I did the cross stitch in 1980's and I see that I didn't date or initial it.

a weaving my mother did in the 1990's

 A Christmas quilt I made in the 2000's I believe it is a Sandy Gervais pattern.

 Machine quilting on the back of a quilt 2010's, custom quilting for a friend and the only picture I have because of the great computer crash of 2011 at my house.  Six decades of Christmas trees and some will never go out of style.--Ann--

                                                                                                                                        

Angels on my tree

 I gave my daughter an angel for the Christmas tree each year, the boys received drummer boys. I also made an angel out of fabric from her Christmas dress every year until she was seven or eight.  Savoring Christmas memories.--Ann--