AND SO IT BEGINS...

Well, Dearies...the calendar has marched forward into another year. JB and I went for an early dinner and I was home and asleep by 9:00! I suppose that's one way to ring in the year, no? My dear Mo-ther said that the Greeks were superstitious and that your New Year's Eve was a harbinger of the year to come, so I suppose I will be warm and safe and cozy and...well rested...for all of 2020.

Not a bad deal at all.

Breakfast is done and I have just finished playing in my stash. My initial thought was to start something new, but I decided to put these three pieces next to the Happy Chair instead:
I have been stitching Plum Pudding the last few days. The Christmas canvaswork was fun, but my poor thumb joints really took a beating. I forgot the difference in strength needed to pull that needle through canvas instead of linen. So I am back in the cross stitch saddle and loving every minute of it!

The Official Spinster Stitcher 2019 Jar of the Orts is now on the shelf:

(Please tell me I'm not the only one that still continues with this crazypants tradition!)

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for all of your lovely notes and cards and comments and gifts and emails and happy thoughts and prayers. I am simply full of and overwhelmed by the blessings of my life. My goal for 2020 is to be worthy of them.

A very blessed, happy, healthy, and stitchy New Year to you, my friends!