two jobs, two weeks

with two weeks to go til Christmas Eve, i have about a zillion projects to finish - like embroidering arms on the rest of these snowmen...

(http://www.dappertoad.com/2011/12/free-mini-snowman-crochet-pattern.html)

...and making/stuffing/scarf-ing/finishing roughly 18 more. remind me to start making next year's ornaments in January, lol!

i'm also making a teeny crocheted llama for my niece's first Christmas, to go along with two of the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney (Llama Llama Mad at Mama is my favorite!). i've got the head, ears, and neck assembled so far. attaching the neck to the head was tricky, and i don't know how it happened, but now i can pose the little guy's head, which gives him loads of personality!

there has also been some sporadic snowflake-making in preparation for a garland. i wanted to have that done for this year, but couldn't find the right materials. sigh. but that gives me alllllll next year to perfect it, and then it can grace whatever home E and i make for ourselves!

and then there's this:

my Amazing Technicolor Blankie. it's currently sitting very very patiently in the corner, and i can't wait to get everything else done and sit down for some serious blankie time. me, the blankie, some coffee, and a movie. yes. soon...sooooooon...

oh right, and i'm now a massage therapist at two chiropractic offices! both are nearby, thank God, but in opposite directions, and while i'm super-duper excited to have the work (because um, the recent move left me poor and behind on bills), i can't help laughing that it's picked up right in the middle of the Christmas Project Mania. so that's even less time to play with yarn, never mind cleaning and continuing to unpack and sort through all my stuff and split my time between here and E's house as much as i can. which, by the way, has been wonderful, and we are both working so hard towards getting a place together. we have ridiculous amounts of fun - this weekend we started learning Italian (favorite new phrase: "Il toro calcia il uomo" - "The bull kicks the man"), and we made pierogi lasagna - layers of pasta and cheesy, buttery, onion-y mashed potatoes. yummm. E also baked a dark chocolate cake, and it was really something watching her assemble and frost it like it was the easiest thing in the world, lol. they don't call her the butch Betty Crocker for nothing!

ok, ok, back to the yarn. promise i'll surface again soon!