December 14th - grateful for ...

{ fantasy }

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

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My little boy went to bed with a broad smile on his face last night, after I told him a story I made up.

I took the picture on Saturday at the Christmas village we visited; this was a place called 'The Little Prince' after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book. It was really magical.

December 13th - grateful for ...

{ Sunday afternoon stillness }

( under the blanket you see is my baby who's napping)

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,
And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

~Joaquin Miller

December 12th - grateful for ...

{ twinkle lights }

they were so worth the 4-hour bus ride back and forth!

December 11th - grateful for ...

{ central heating }

Forms of central heating have been discovered that date back to the time of the Greeks - despite the Mediterranean climate - but it was the Romans who created the system which allowed properties and water to be heated, Mr Geoghegan claimed.

Later, in Victorian Britain, households experimented with different ways of heating the home but it was not until 1970 that gas fitter Martyn Jarvis claims he first saw central heating really taking off.

"There was a sense of excitement. It was like getting the first colour television - 'Ooooh, I've got central heating'," he explained.

(via here)

December 10th - grateful for ...

{ weekends }

(from last winter)

“- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"
- "On a weekend?"
- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."”
Calvin & Hobbes quotes

December 9th - grateful for ...

{ the blanket stitch }

The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. They don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.

~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus

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I think today's choice needs a bit of explanation; you see, my sewing machine broke down on Monday, leaving me with a whole list of projects to be completed by the end of the week, presents mostly. I was quite miserable after that until of course I came to my senses and realised it was not the end of the world and there are always alternatives. There's no way I'll manage to do everything I wanted to but , well, c'est la vie!

(and yes, there's a reason you only see part of what I've made!)

Take Care!

xxx

December 8th - grateful for ...

{ my job }

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

~Confucius