first new york christmas

Christmas away from Victoria = my very own Christmas tree. I had a great time running around to find ornaments, finding out how expensive they are, buying a few (how could I say no to a narwhal Christmas ornament?!), making a few, and receiving a few in a care package from Mum. I do have to say that my favourite project was the faux capiz shell garland it did take me awhile to get it long enough even for my small tree and then I was paranoid that the cats were going to attack it so I was vigilant in repositioning it every night on the higher branches. I took the tree down today, carefully packed up all my ornaments and put them away. I think that's the worst thing about Christmas, how empty the apartment is without any decoration.

warm feet = happy feet

The holiday hiatus is over. I have returned to New York with the best Christmas present: moccasin style slippers, made in Canada moccasin style slippers at that. Oh they are lovely! Very anti-peta with the rabbit fur lining around the ankle, which clearly makes me a horrible person as I adore them. It was a jam packed Christmas week and luckily I got to see all my favourite people, sit around playing geeky German boardgames or card games, win at Scrabble, drink copious amounts of tea while eating copious amounts of goodies, have an ungodly serving of a very drunken black forest cake, and spend Christmas day sitting by the fire watching my family enjoy all the gifts I found them. Now you'd think this would be enough; however, I did miss out on one tradition that I need to fix before the year is over: watching White Christmas singing along to all the songs especially this one: