A lovely long weekend for me. Sigh. And it’s almost over.

I spent today cutting out puppets, getting ready for the holidays. I have 90 cut out and in bags now. I still need to do about 10 lions and some penguins and then I will be done cutting. I do some kind of a new animal every year. Last year was a rhinocerous. The year before was a moose. This year I am going to try hedgehogs. I have them cut out, but I am not sure how they will look quite yet. I like to do puppets in stages – first I cut; then all the machine sewing – bodies, then ears, then heads, then beaks and things; and finally curling up with movies and the hand sewing. It will take me about 30 hours to finish all of these. Yipes!

This evening, I finished up a few odds and ends and then designed a little tiny needlepoint elephant. I am going to make more ornament kits for my etsy shop. I found two packages of hardanger cloth, which really looks to me like tiny cross stitch fabric, at the thrift store. They are bright red and blue and were just begging to be made in to something cute. I haven’t decided how to finish the ornament yet, but I think they might be little heart shaped “pillows” with some vintage fabrics on the back.

We also figured out how to make the fax machine on our printer all-in-one thing work. The place I order enameling supplies from doesn’t have online ordering and so I usually fax the order in. I discovered that I have a special order for enamels in the works and I am out of all kinds of my favorite copper blanks, namely the ones I need. I have my fingers crossed that they can get my order out to me soon!