It started out by arriving home to Mr Pirate and all of our housemates putting up the Christmas decorations.
So I helped out doing that (or rather, I did a WONDERFUL job of "Supervising" ahem....) until a dear friend stopped by and joined Mr Pirate and I for a lovely dinner of Indian Food at Cafe Spice just across the road.
I love going there! The amazing Indian couple who owns the restaurant alway greet us with big smiles and hugs and happy chatter. I want to squish them up and take them home in my pocket. But for now, living across the street is as good as it gets!
Saturday morning, I got up, and ran to the fabric store for some polar fleece to use as the back fabric for the three new-sew blankets that Mr Pirate and I are going to make to go with the pajama pants that I made for some friends as Christmas gifts. Once I made it out of there without spending an arm and a leg, I stopped at the liquor store for Brandy and a present for a white elephant exchange, and the grocery store for some ingredients for a quinoa salad I was making for later that night.
Once I got home- I promptly got to making the Victorian Egg Nog, which took just over three-quarters of the bottle of brandy that I had purchased, and lots of rum (I can't account for how much rum, because I keep the large size bottle of kraken on hand at all times). This stuff will knock your socks off! No doubt.
And then I made the quinoa salad. I was inspired by a dish that someone brought to work, and made up my own variation on the fly. Quinoa, cucumber, cranberries, cilantro, edamame, juice of one whole lime, white truffle oil, merlot infused sea salt, and cracked black pepper.
Once those were all completed, I couldn't very well justify sitting on my laurels and ruining the track record of the day. So I got to making Mr Pirate the pajama pants from the fabric we found while on vacation.
After that was completed it was time to get myself dressed properly and pick up my fellow dancer, and head out to our Fancy Party. LOL it was a wonderful evening, the eggnog and quinoa salad were a hit.
For the first time in my life, I was a stealer while we played the White Elephant exchange game! And Im happy to report that I got to keep my present. No one stole it away from me! Two lovely flavors of tea, a lovely little tea cup, and a box of blueberry tea biscotti (which I will give to my friend here at work since it has gluten in it).
Sunday, I made sure to put Mr Pirate to bed in the bedroom after he got home from work so I could get to working on the stocking.
I spent the afternoon working away on it while watching Christmas movies. It was all very nice and happy.
I stopped for a break when he woke up and was getting ready to go back into work, and picked right back up where I left off when he left.
So without further ado- I am very pleased and proud to say, that it is FINISHED. DONE. FIN.
I really enjoyed doing it once I got the hang of it. And give you the final pics of it.
Now to get little bits-and-baubs to fill it with and try and hold out one more week to hang it on..well...I'll hang it someplace on Christmas Eve.
Almost completed
Close up
Close up
The Final Finished Product
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