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Countdown to Chrismas

I spent the weekend doing a sewing project for my niece’s Christmas present. I’d post pictures, but I want my family to be surprised too – and they are reading my blog this week, I think. So, I’ll show it after I give it to her. It will be cuter with her in the picture anyway. Hopefully, she’ll want to wear it.

Suffice to say it was fun to dust off my sewing machine. It was a little tricky, because I didn’t have the recommended needle size for the material. And I did this during the snowstorm, so I couldn’t go out for a replacement. But, you know, my niece won’t care. Thus, I’m perfectly pleased with how it turned out. Sewing this weekend kind of makes me want to find more sewing projects. This one took me back to my younger childhood years where I would design and make clothes for my dolls and tropical barbie. This would be the one I’ve shown here before.

Other than that, I went to church (in the congregation this week) and sang many Christmas songs. I’m glad this church goes ahead and sings them during Advent. So many of the songs are about Christ being born and Christ with us, so churches I’ve been to in the past haven’t wanted to sing them until Christmas Eve.

We have a really good line-up of songs for Chrismas Eve services. I’m singing at all 3. I will also be reading the beginning of the Christmas story from Luke.

I went to a really great Christmas concert last night. It was by Lauren Redpath who was our interim music director. I think our church made a mistake when we didn’t hire her permanently. She had shortcomings as a band leader, because she really didn’t know enough about instrumentation to lead the instruments. However, I think her vocals would’ve made up for it in retrospect. Ah well, hopefully we will find someone soon. You’d think that with the economy the way it is, we’d have people graduating from music schools in the area looking for jobs pretty soon. It was a great concert and really made me feel Christmassy.

Now, I just have a couple of days of working from home and then I’m off for a week and a half! I’m sure I’ll be taking lots of photos and posting them to Flickr soon. Hopefully, I’ll post here as well, so if you aren’t too busy, pop on by!