Life's a Stitch

Nine Years of Searching

After nine years, this is another installment of interesting google searches that have ultimately reached Life's a Stitch. Nine years, has it really been nine years? I've tried to give this up as have many of the finest, but my daughter won't let me.  I'm OK with that so here we go:

The five recent interesting searches:

5. Eulogy for a mom. A lot of people, especially from Australia, according to the search records are apparently at a similar stage of life. 

4.  A unique, albeit potentially sad search that landed a person on Life's a Stitch: "Eulogy for me." I'm hoping that was for a school assignment.

3. Rigid Heddle loom reviews. It fits as it comes up frequently around the holidays and requires fiber.

2. Slow cooker curry. Interesting search for what is purported to be a knitting blog.

1. At 1:49a.m.: Does London Drugs sell yarn? They sell everything else, why not yarn? Maybe it was someone who needed a last minute gift.

I hope they don't attempt my current project, the oxymoronically named High Speed Knitting. I'm on the last rows that take over a half hour each. High Speed Knitting, are you kidding? 275 yards of 2x2 ribbing is taking forever.  I do like the way it's turning out, though, and it will be done for Christmas.

No matter how you arrived at Life's a Stitch, here you are. Wishing you all the best for a Merry Christmastime.

This year our lovingly mismatched nativity acquired the tiny elephant, a gift from Nepal, and the appropriate-for-British Columbia black bear came off the end of a pencil. 

Jingle Off!

Jingle Off! is anther name for my organization's new annual Christmas fundraiser. Fundraising can be the bain of an Executive Director's worklife, but a necessary evil it is, many involving a tangle of committees, caterers, entertainment and charitable receipts. This one was relatively painless, enjoyable even.

The Jingle Off Christmas Caroling Competition has been a dream of mine for many years, but work got in the way. This year we were fortunate to have the sponsorship of the mall where our offices are located. Hoping for 12-15 teams, we ended up with 16.

Such spirit! Although we had the judges, these weren't Idol wannabes, they were kids and adults who wanted to have fun while supporting a good cause:

The "Christmas Belles":

 

The judges:

 In addition to overall performance,  there were prizes for best costume, most gleeful and best holiday spirit. Here are the first place winners in the Business/Community category, and they, of course won best costumes:

The first annual Jingle Off was a success. A great time was had by all, even the Executive Director. Bring on year two!

 

 

My boy, the artist

Our family knew it anyway, the boy is officially an artist as evidenced by this "Artist's interview."

And I, still learning, am one informally. In my college days, rejected from the art program because my portfolio was deemed too commercial, I met a successful entrant. He painted a spectacular watercolour autumnal leaf. Wow, my 17-year-old self thought, I wish I could paint a leaf. 40 years later I think I've done it, although those two water droplets took four tries.

Having achieved my 17 year old dream, there are new ones to work on.