It's Been Too Long

Life has made it difficult to sit down and write for the past few months. Things have been busy here is Etobicoke. Jim and I were exceedingly busy in out lead-up to Christmas. I devoted numerous hours to costuming for my school musical, The Scarlet Pimpernel. While I was not thrilled with this show, the kids did reveal some extraordinary voices and the costumes stole the show.

In addition, Jim and I had a busy season with our side business, Earthcandy. We did numerous craft sales and enjoyed our busiest season to date. We sold a lot of Jim's jewellery and a number of my uniquely designed shawls and toques.

I also managed to complete 3 paintings to give Jim for his birthday. He had been dying to have portraits of the pets so I managed to pull off an oil painting of each.

We decided to spend the holiday at home and avoid the usual trip to the east coast to visit Jim's family; his mother and sister spent a week with us in November. It was great to find time to do some Christmas decorating and baking.

We had a delightfully quiet break and even found time to get a few jobs done around the house. We finally finished the bedroom we started working on this summer. We installed the Church rail as a headboard as well as the repainted mexican tin sconces. We love it!

We also found time to hang all of the artwork we purchased that had not yet found a home on our walls.