Travelling Time and Space

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there!

Turkey Day is my second favorite holiday - Christmas being my favorite - and considering it's an "adopted" holiday for me as German Ex-Pat in the US it's grown on me in leaps and bounds. Every year I find myself looking forward to turkey goodness in fall. I mean what's not to like? Celebrating your gratefulness for all the good in your life with a scrumptious dinner with friends and family ranks high on my list of favorite things to do, really.Besides, it heralds the begin of the Advent season leading up to Christmas :o)

Finn and I have been busy with our first preparations today. We've taken care of the last grocery store run, bread for stuffing is cut into cubes and getting stale, cornbread is cooling off on the rack, the pumpkin pie is slowly baking, the pie crust for the apple pie (MUST. HAVE. APPLE PIE) is chilling in the fridge and the fresh green beans are all prepped for tomorrow's steaming. In a bit I'll finish up the apple pie for its time in the oven and I might chop some celery for the stuffing before hubby comes home to take care of the turkey.Yep, hubby handles the beast. We have decided it's a man's job and he braves the bird every year with bravado and style. His turkey's have turned out moist and flavorful and he's proud as can be. So am I :o) My hubby cooks a mean turkey, brining, basting and all.

Anyhow, I'm a lucky bug. I have many many things in my life to be thankful for. I'm blessed - simple as that.

The one in my fingertips, to be precise.

It's icy cold here in sunny Trimaris and as always that stirs my desire to sew up a cozy comfy 14th century cotehardie/surcotte outfit. I even have the right fabrics right here, pre-washed and just begging to be turned into something pretty. At Pennsic I bought (probably not enough) tiny pewter buttons and pewter spangles; I have silk yarn to add fancy embroidery and I'm just all giddy about the idea to add things like shoes with cut work.

What's holding me back, you wonder?

My fingers are frozen stiff and I cannot unwrap them from my mug of tea any longer than to type up this entry.

Gah!

We have heirs! We have heirs! Trimarian subjects now may rest in peace again knowing that the line of succession is secure in the unfortunate case of an early demise of Their Majesties - God forbid! - the crown will be safe in royal hands of Trimaris blood.

Vivat Prince Kurn! Vivat Princess Eridani!

I had a lovely time at Crown list this past weekend. The weather was gorgeous, the listfield a splendid spectacle and I enjoyed seeing so many dear people after so many weeks and in some cases months. I scored a major shopping point - not only did I discover the delights of a new tavern serving delicious creations with VEGETABLES (*gasp*) which went especially well with my still tender stomach from this past week's plague attack (the ciabatta roll with mozarella cheese, tomatoes and fresh basil was just what I needed) but I also reveled at the sight of beautiful pottery. I bought a gorgeous set of a blue glazed mug and bowl and I can't stop fawning over them. How I wish I could finally learn to throw pottery ... maybe next year.

Sunday - hubby had to work - Finndragon and I embarked on our Gingerbread house adventure. We spent all afternoon baking parts for our house, then needed to postpone the assembly of our house and its decoration over the next two afternoons. It is finally finished and just adorable. Finn is extremely proud of his work and so am I. I'd have never thought that it would be such an involved and time-consuming project but it was well worth it. Tood bad we won't be able to eat it (you can kill with it, frankly).

In the past couple of months I've begun a new and rather bad habit. Half-finished projects started to litter a certain area in our den, just mere steps from completion yet lingering in limbo. Enough with that!

I've pulled out all those works in progress and am consistently working to finish them once and for all.

German Renaissance Blue wool Wams for a boy - seams fnished and hooks/eyelets added. It's now wearable but seems to be asking for some applique trim

Blue linen kirtle - all seams are now done.

German Renaissance black velvel Wams for a Man - it was always too big. I have now taken it apart entirely (*sigh*), have taken in the excess and am now in the process of putting it back together.

3 out of 5 projects - not a bad start :o) 

Literally.

There is a stomach flu going around and it's no fun! Finn went down first on Sunday, I was next on Monday night, hubby looked like hell last night and this morning Milica called in as the next victim.

The only good thing that can be said about it is you can be certain that it will be over in 24h. However, those 24h will feel very very long ...

So I had this beautifully detailed blog entry about the past week and weekend all written up including funny anecdotes and deep thoughts  ... and then the computer froze on me.

*sigh*

Oh well.

Anyways, the week was productive, the weekend wonderful from wedding celebrations over Halloween outings to a Saturday well spent with friends. Sunday was a a leisurely family day filled with little chores and games and bicycling. Much to Finn's dismay we took down the Halloween decoration to stow it away for next year. His papermache spider got a kiss and then was safely tucked into the box with the ghosts and the tombstones. He's such a trooper.