If you celebrate Christmas, how was yours? If not, how was your weekend? My Christmas was a pretty good one! My Mom is here with us, so she and my DH and I opened gifts together. They both liked what I got them, which is always nice. I got some great yarny gifts. My DH got my a sock yarn set from the Icelandic Knitter that goes with a sock pattern club I’m in with her.
In addition to the potholder loom (of earlier post fame), my Mom got me some Halloween yarn and some breed-specific yarn that qualifies as Shave ‘Em to Save ‘Em skeins.
Then we Skyped with my brother and SIL and opened gifts together online. We always exchange local treats with them. They recently moved from Florida to Wisconsin, so the exchange was a little different this year. Normally we send them birch candy and other AK specific things, and they send us citrus-based items. This year we got a couple of different cherry-based items and a few other Wisconsin treats 🙂
Then after all that, we sat down to craft and to start our traditional holiday movie marathon. DH and I are off of work this coming week, so we decided on a Hobbit and Lord of the Rings marathon. Hopefully the rest of the break will be a nice as Christmas was!
Quite A Yarn 
Sounds like you had a lovely day. Your Mom and DH did very well with yarny gifts!
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They definitely did!
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Sounds like you had a good Christmas. Florida to Wisconsin is quite the change! Enjoy your week off. It will go fast.
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I did! That is a really big move. I hope to – they always do go fast, but hopefully a combination of relaxing and getting a few things done will make it a decent week.
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Enjoy your marathons! x
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We will 🙂
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We had a lovely holiday! I am looking forward to relaxing this week.
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I watched the end of Hobbit and then the first LOTR. And a bit of all kinds of harry Potter!! 😂😂
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That sounds like a pretty good day!
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Lovely crafty gifts – you lucky lady! How great to have family who ‘know’ what to get you. Whilst I had lovely presents there wasn’t a ball of wool or knitting pin in sight. It was a quiet one for us, lovely to just be our little family, great food and a couple of Christmas movies with feel-good plots!
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Very glad it was a nice Christmas for you! I am very lucky 🙂
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That sounds very fun! Oh and I’ve never heard of “birch candy”, I had to go google it! (oh and delicious looking yarns)
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🙂 Up here they tap birch trees for sap like other places tap maple trees. They make syrup and caramels and hard candy out of it. It’s pretty good! I never heard of it before we moved to Alaska, so I think it’s unique to here.
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That is so cool! Sounds yummy and I saw pictures online.
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It is! Different and tasty 🙂
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