I feel like I have already failed my blog. Between an end-of-show-season respite and the Christmas holidays fast approaching I've neglected to update my blog for almost a month. Never one to procrastinate, always on time, as I've grown older I find myself arriving 10 minutes late to the dentist and behind on my farm accounting. So it's no wonder the blog is floundering!

The shopping is finally completed and the packages all wrapped (if you can call throwing things in a pretty bag wrapped) and awaiting their trip back home for the holidays. Every year I swear I'm going to go back to pretty paper with fancy handmade bows and twirling ribbons but each time I receive so many gifts in bags that I feel obligated to reuse them the following year, which perpetuates the cycle. There is such fun in the anticipation of opening a wrapped gift, whether one rips the present bare with vigor or gently unwraps as if unswaddling a new babe.

With a few days to myself before the holidays I am now back working in my studio on new projects. I've got several new sushi/dessert sets in the works, a really nice coneflower bowl, and a new tuxedo cat bowl-all ready for their mold firing. Perhaps you'll see them on the blog next year!

Thanks for checking in with me. I wish everyone a very merry Christmas!