mandala

Was reading a description in Isabella's catalog - http://www.isabellacatalog.com/ - about mandalas and how healing they can be. I don't fully get why. But I do know that I love to color (yes, even as an adult)....I sort of doodle a lot and then shade in my doodles, which is often soothing. So I'm very tempted to buy a mandala coloring kit from Isabella...Instead, I decide to wait and ask for a gift card from them for Christmas....Meanwhile, I print out some mandala's online and bring them home and start coloring them in with colored pencils I have around the house. It's fun and soothing.
I also spend a lot of time this a.m. working on my second green loom hat....I'm going to make this one a little bigger than the first. I notice one mistake where I think I dropped a stitch or something. I hope I can figure out how to disguise this little mistake as I would love to give it to K for X-mas, that little stinker is starting to get hard to buy for! She cracks me up. She's 12 and all of a sudden says she doesn't want anything really for Christmas.

secret santa gifts

I submit my Christmas list to my Secret Santa group (my siblings, sister-in-law and family friends) and I do something different this time. I list a bunch of items like I usually do, like gift card to Whole Foods, Isabella, etc...but I also tell them I want craft books and kits and to surprise me with anything.