Sunday Sundry - Vol. 50

Deck the halls with...Edward Cullen!

Fa-la-la-la—Ooh-la-la—la-la!

Not the season to be sullen

Fa-la-la-la—Ooh-la-la—la-la!

Dons he now his grey apparel

Fa-la-la—Ooh-la-la—la-la-la!

While I botch this yuletide carol

Fa-la-la-la—Ooh-la-la—la-la!

Oh, the merriment of hanging this poster in my sewing space today! It was a Christmas gift from my friend Marie, who likes me so much she read all the Twilight books just because I would not shut up talking about them.  What a pal, huh?  Though she has no desire to see Breaking Dawn, and Robert Pattinson does absolutely nothing for her, I sure won't hold it against her.  

Hey, if Edward wasn't bored out of his gourd watching Bella sleep every night, I figure he can watch whatever foolishness I get into in the sewing room, right?  Although he looks like he may be waiting for me to sew through a finger.  All in good time, my pretty.  All in good time.

I did manage to bring out a few, more seasonal decorations this weekend, but the going has been slow. Every year, I desire to decorate less.

We needed a catchall for the Christmas cards, so I employed a festive piece of Pyrex for the task.

How do you display your holiday cards, if you do?

It occurred to me that I have no appropriate holiday wall hanging for the front hallway, but I've got a plan to fix that soon with this Carpenter's Wheel block that I saw on Laughter in Quilts.  As I commented to Karen, it looks seasonal without screaming "take me down on December 26," if you know what I mean.  Here are the fabrics I've pulled for it.

And though I haven't sewn a single seam this week, I did manage to get a quilt cut out.  These stacks of raw materials are now waiting for me to bang together at the job site.  (What's with the construction reference, P.?  *Shrugs*)

It occurred to me that the CDs I was listening to as I pressed and cut fabric kind of matched the quilt's color scheme.  Very interesting!

Hubs, who overhears whatever I'm jamming out to in the sewing room, says to me yesterday, "I think you're becoming a progressive rock fan but don't even know it yet."  

Don't know?  Hello?  Who has listened to prog rock since Rush, Kansas, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Yes, etc. were invented?  I just go in cycles with music, and there hasn't really been a decent progressive rock sound I've liked in a while...until Mute Math.  I don't even know if they're technically considered that genre, but it seems as if they lean in the general direction.  By the way, if you want to read something hilariously funny on the subject of progressive rock, see THIS (warning: some people may find this link mildly offensive; I am obviously not one of those people).  And Porcupine Tree?  Must hear more!

The Black Keys are not progressive rock, but rock they do.  I just want to dance with this gentleman.  Perhaps without all the literal hand gesturing, however.