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Ok, I don’t know what happened this year. I’m just way behind. It’s only 3 days til Christmas!<\/p>\n
Now I have to tell you that I actually wrote this post 11 days ago, but due to problems with our internet provider doing some sort of change over, that caused some sort of technical mess (don’t ask me, I’m not techy at all) that made it impossible to load anything, which has taken this long to sort out, I am FINALLY able to post this. \u00a0And yes, I know that was a ridiculously long sentence.<\/p>\n
So here it is 8 days later and to tell the truth not much has changed, I’m still way behind. I still don’t have the baking done, the tree is half decorated, and I’ve only just mailed out the Christmas cards PLUS \u00a0now I’ve got bursitis.<\/p>\n
Last year I was sooooo ready. I had the Santas up the whole kit and caboodle of them. Check it out, the 25 Days of Christmas Santa collection<\/a>. That’s the Grouchy Santas from my collection acting as the header for this post.<\/p>\n I had the \u00a0Christmas music<\/a>, all of it pretty well second hand, nothing like recycling for creating an abundant Christmas<\/a>. And even had time to write about it. But I’m not giving up. I’m obviously going to have to scale down my plans, do a bit less, not put up as many decorations, not bake as much (Bill and I could certainly do with less in the goodies department). \u00a0 But I’ll figure it out. Christmas will come, ready or not. And I plan to enjoy it. \u00a0Anyway if nothing else I’ve got chocolates! \u00a0What else do we really really need??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, I don’t know what happened this year. I’m just way behind. It’s only 3 days til Christmas! Now I have to tell you that I actually wrote this post 11 days ago, but due to problems with our internet provider doing some sort of change over, that caused some sort of technical mess (don’t Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,1,857,13],"tags":[462,685,684,960,959,688,686,687],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-musings","category-quilting","category-recycling","tag-25-days-of-christmas-santa-ornaments","tag-making-tea-cozies-from-scraps","tag-not-ready-for-christmas","tag-patchwork-tea-cosy","tag-quilting","tag-recycled-and-abundant-christmas","tag-recycled-christmas-music","tag-recycled-christmas-ornaments-for-the-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis year I’ve been working way too many hours and just haven’t had the time. Plus I decided to make some presents this year. Check out the scraps I’m using. Colorful and tropical enough? Yup, just my thing.<\/p>\n![\"scraps\"](\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/scraps.jpg\" "\\"scraps\\"")
\nHere are a couple of the tea cozies I’ve made. Can’t show you the others yet. Gotta keep the surprise, just in case certain gift recipients are reading this blog.<\/p>\n![\"mls-cosy\"](\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mls-cosy.jpg\" "\\"mls-cosy\\"")
\n![\"my-cosy\"](\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/my-cosy.jpg\" "\\"my-cosy\\"")
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