My Little Secret
Santa and I have a secret this year and thank goodness no one but he and I will ever know. Last year in January I borrowed a quilted wall hanging my friend, Elizabeth made that is an Advent Calendar. Okay, for an entire year I have been going to make six of them so I have kept hers as a pattern. Are you following me here? It’s now the day before Thanksgiving and I’m thinking, wow, Elizabeth is going to want that back now that it’s time to count down the days of December. I better at least get the pattern taken off! Soooo, I went to my Christmas closet to get it, knowing exactly where it was, and after I’d emptied the entire closet and had broken into a drenching sweat from all that lifting of bins and boxes I was beginning to be in a bit … make that more than a bit … of a panic. Where in the world is Elizabeth’s Advent Calendar?
I found the fleece Christmas patterns I bought about three years ago to make some blankets as gifts. I found the Christmas material I bought 75% off two years ago that I planned to use to make the before mentioned Advent Calendar, I found the little thingamajigs I bought at 75% off last year to give out the family Christmas money in. I also found the new red, glittery ornaments I bought at the same 75% off sale last year for a new look on our Christmas tree this year. I found 8 pieces of material that I bought for 80% off a few summers ago that you cut out and make Christmas aprons. There’s more but … what’s the point in naming everything. Can you see where this is going?
My name is Edna and I am a Christmas-craft-sales-aholic. But whatever you do, don’t tell my husband!
Oh, by the way, I finally found the Advent Calendar. It was right on the top of the first bin I looked in but I thought it was something else.
I don’t think I can make six of those things by Dec. 1st. That would be six patchwork backgrounds and 142 little pieced ornaments. Maybe next year … sigh
Oh Mom, you are so funny, and I know where I get my project addiction from. This year I have too many projects to do, but luckily I have a good friend who is going to help me with my biggest one for my kids. She said, “I am not going to let you not finish these…I am already invested in it!” I need that push sometimes!
I’m guilty too. I have several projects planned, but then there’s the 3 squares left to finish from the sampler quilt I started who remembers how many years ago to finish, too!
Crafting is an addiction thing! I had so many things I was going to do – but never did that finally one desperate day I decided to get rid of all of it because – “I’m not going to do anymore, and so I might as well get rid of it.” I finally got rid of all the patterns, supplies etc, and now I am rebuying all that stuff because I want to do a ‘project’. Or perhaps I just miss not having the boxes full of unfinished ‘stuff’ ???
Or it might be my upbringing – ‘save it you might need it one day”. I didn’t and now I do.