… the holidays are coming up pretty soon. It’s always a little surprising, but for some reason this year it really doesn’t feel like it to me. However, I’ve started thinking about gifting, and I’ve gone on a crafting binge in preparation. Yesterday I was coming up with all sorts of ideas. It doesn’t help that Sew Mama Sew is in the third annual Handmade Holidays time. Oh dear. Too many cool ideas out there.
Here is a preview of what it’s looking like. I COULD show the completed project because it is for Morgan, but I think similar ones with be made for others so I’d best keep it hidden for now.
Of course Morgan helped me to make her own present by playing with it while I worked. Hooray for the memory capacity of babies. And I can’t yet show anything else I’ve made, so we’ll just have to wait a bit.
The crafting universe must have been pleased with my efforts in the past week to create handmade gifts because…. we found a sewing machine and bought it! Months ago we went to lots of stores and tried different machines and I got my heart set on something that was much too expensive. There are some amazing things out there. Put it this way–I just saw a machine listed on Craig’s List that advertised a free laptop for running the embroidery software. That should tell you something when the LAPTOP is the freebie. Anyway, I had no idea before starting what current sewing machines are like, having only sewn on mechanical machines. There are some very handy and amazing features. But that also means they get expensive very quickly. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on something that didn’t feel perfect or that I would grow out of too soon. So it just wasn’t possible. Or reasonable. I’ve been watching ebay ever since that time, knowing that a used machine was the only way it would ever be possible. And yesterday I found The Deal. (Well, a somewhat more reasonable deal than is usually out there. It’s not exactly free.) And today we bought it. I am so SO excited!
Also, I think when Adrian gets home from work I need to kiss him a thousand times. Except that we both have cold sores. So, scratch that on the kissing. I’ll have to come up with something else for a husband who is spoiling me so ridiculously. 
Maybe I should make some bread… that’s always a treat.
Happily for me, I’ll get to use MY Christmas present before Christmas. Because even if Adrian tried to hide it, my adult capacity memory wouldn’t forget it. We’ll stick a big bow on top. And for my birthday, too. Hehe. My gift is that I get to make gifts. See how that works out? Maybe I’ll even finish my quilt now…
I’m excited to see what you’re making, and what you do with your fancy new machine. My mother-in-law’s machine does embroidery and she makes us all sorts of fun stuff with it. I’ve been sewing a lot too with my new machine (pretty simple stuff because I’m still learning), I just still need to blog about it.
How exciting! Those fancy schmancy machines do amazing stuff, though I’m definitely not to the point of being able to use one.
May you enjoy sewing many a project!