Oh well.

I completely forgot to take photos of the Christmas presents I made this year, and I was so excited to show them off. I guess you can read that as "show them off IN THEORY" since I don't think anyone is reading this.

Anyway, notes to self: I made a scarf for my mom with the lace pattern here, I think it's called Feathers and Fan or something similar. I gave her a pair of earrings and a jar of lilac and lavender bath salts too. I made my brother a tuxedo t-shirt that I did with cardboard stencils and bleach sprayed onto a black shirt. He's also getting something else that I was too drunk to work on on Christmas Eve. My dad got two jars of marinated olives (recipe not on the internet) and a coffee liqueur that I made by reducing coffee, sugar, and water to a syrup and adding it to brandy.

I got some very nice crafty stuff for Christmas this year, including some canvases, a palette knife, some acrylics, beads, and The Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith, which is really cool. I also got a basket to keep my knitting in my living room, some great sock yarn, and a knitting book (do I dare attempt cabling?). My mom gave me a metric buttload of needles, too, so I'm totally stocked. The only thing I'm missing is yarn for all the things I want to do, and that will have to wait. My Christmas money is going straight to my bank account. I have a few projects planned for myself (hooray), like the Shalom cardigan on Ravelry and my long-awaited Noro scarf. I have to finish the dog blanket, too.

In other news, yesterday I ruined my own birthday surprise and discovered that I'm going to get a new digital camera (I have never owned a brand-new one). It turns out well because my old camera got knocked over and broken on Christmas Eve. It was taking really weird photos, too, maybe it was time. Anyway, I'm stoked. I'm going to head down to Future Shop tomorrow and check them out.

I'm finding myself with tons of projects planned, both crafty and otherwise, and I literally don't know where to start! Good thing I have a lot of time on my hands right now.