Don't ask me how "Let's put the final touches on the homemade presents we're sending to family" turned into The Great Christmas Craft Extravaganza and All-Night Marathon of 2003, but there you are. 7:30 this morning found Josh and I, bleary and giddy, sitting in Martin's Coffee Shop giggling hysterically and eating mountains of eggs while we waited for the post office to open.
At some point last night, I talked to a cookie long enough for it to stop being funny and start being alarming. Then Josh invented the Genesis Knot, but I'm sure you'll hear about that when they cover the Nobel Prize. I have pictures, but will refrain from posting them until after Christmas in case any of Josh's clan read this. I would like to personally thank my family for deciding to have Christmas-in-January, because if I had had to mix up another batch of batter I would have cried. Speaking of which, there's something I need to get off my chest, polite decorum be damned:
I do not ordinarily like to brag, but if I don't make the best gingersnaps in the known universe, just you tell me who does. Seriously, all you pretenders to the gingersnap throne? Bring it. I have no fear*. If baking gingersnaps were a money-making skill, I would be freaking Donald Trump by now.
This burst of ego was probably brought to you by my stupid biorhythms, which seem to think I should be awake just because it's a quarter after one. I only went to bed at nine!
Before I blah blah blither my way off to the kitchen for a bagel, let me add the customary plea to the post office gods: Be kind to our packages, please. I mean an ALL-NIGHTER. It would be very sad if all that effort went toward boxes full of crumbs.
*Except of course for my mom, since she gave me the recipe, handed down by my grandmother. Who would probably be royally pissed that I even discussed the recipe in a public forum.
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Posted by: EV at December 19, 2003 01:37 PMthis year i decided to completely furnish a full christmas tree with complicated handmade paper ornaments i found old patterns for on the interweb. i've been making them pretty much non-stop since wednesday. i have discovered that making ornaments strains the same right shoulder muscle as does knitting. i am rapidly developing repetitive craft syndrome. if i have any fingers left it will be a happy christmas, otherwise at least i know jenni will still be my friend ;) ...
Posted by: tree at December 20, 2003 04:47 AMDear tree,
Please tell where you found the patterns.
Thanks,
Doombot
Posted by: Doombot at December 20, 2003 02:54 PMMy sister-in-law makes killer ginger snaps. I can barely make toast, so I wouldn't dream of calling you out. But if you and Tami ever have a ginger-snap-off, I'd be very pleased to offer my services as judge.
Posted by: stennie at December 21, 2003 12:19 AMThe tree is completed! And it's stil before christmas! Granted, the tree is smaller than I am,,,
My main ornament inspiration came from this topic on craftster: http://www.craftster.org/yabbse/index.php?board=26;action=display;threadid=76;start=0 "Glamorous Paper Decorations"
I also made paper flower-stars like these:
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel1171&catid=cat337
And a dot garland:
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel1135&catid=cat337
& vast amounts of glitter.
I will put up photos soon! Now I must watch BBC christmas movies and make hundreds and hundreds of paper snowflakes, as I am apparently channeling an inner (british) grandmother.
The tree is completed! And it's stil before christmas! Granted, the tree is smaller than I am,,,
My main ornament inspiration came from this topic on craftster: "Glamorous Paper Decorations"
I also made paper flower-stars sort of like these
ones. (mine are better)
And a dot garland.
& vast amounts of glitter.
I will put up photos soon! Now I must watch BBC christmas movies and make hundreds and hundreds of paper snowflakes, as I am apparently channeling an inner (british) grandmother.
Posted by: tree at December 22, 2003 08:18 AMThanks, tree . . . I think. I'm not sure how I feel about actually admiring and wanting to make something originally proposed by Martha Stewart, but, sigh, I really like the dot garland thing. Look forward to your pix.
Posted by: Doombot at December 22, 2003 09:35 PMfred flare is selling felt dot garlands for $10 a strand. as for martha stewart inventing them, i think my mom was making them with preschool kids in the 70's. maybe martha stewart was too.
Posted by: tree at December 23, 2003 09:27 AM