I hope everyone enjoyed December and if you celebrate the holidays I wish that yours were filled with happiness. I believe we could all do with a little bit of happy to send 2009 off on the right foot (or, could we say to boot it out the door come midnight?)
Things here Shikishi land have been silly amounts of busy with school and work and school again. Not to mention crafting for the holidays and cooking and did I mention school? I have a feeling this later will be causing a fair dent in my blogging until I settle back into a routine. Currently just trying to stay with the class is proving difficult!
However I have lots of yummy foods planned in the coming months – I cannot wait until spring when I can test run a recipe for Berry Pudding that looks absolutely divine! I am also thinking of joining up with one of the local craft fairs this summer and trying my hand at selling some of the monstrous creations I have been designing. Of course, I may chicken out in the face of all the truly amazing creativity that seems to run rampant in Portland these days – but we shall see. For now I may just update everyone via here on what I am making and how my learning to sew using an actual machine is coming along.
Did I mention the machine? The mate finally tired of me continually stabbing myself and broke down. So for Yule this year I received a lovely little Singer that I have not the foggiest how to use! (This too may need to be back burned until I get a handle on the school situation!)
This is where you can expect to find me for the remainder of the week. It is a good thing the proprietress of The Green Hand book shop is quite allowing of me coming in to sort through her piles or flop on her sofa during my study breaks!
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. I look forward to a return to cooking (and posting!) in the near future. Until then . . .
