Right When I Shouda Been Sewing Christmas Gifts

I had a wedding to go to. And when I go to a wedding, I haul along HIS & HERS APRONS. I've made them before, but they keep getting cuter. Not lying. Wish I could quit all my jobs and open up a HIS & HERS APRONS shop. (Hey--the SOCK STORE is still in business, so why wouldn't I have a shot?)

Anyway, anybody marrying gets pyrex with lids and HIS & HERS APRONS. That's how I roll. No, I don't care what you registered for. Because I don't feel like buying you one fork. Or half a shower curtain. You get pyrex with lids (because EVERYBODY needs pyrex with lids). And you get these:

 

Normally I would have hidden a little of that fruit print inside of the HIS apron, but I didn't think this particular groom could swing any amount of, um, fruit--so I used the dark plaid to make the HERS ties two-sided. Here's the best part of these:

 

Oh, and I finished the christmas garland for myself. And it's making me incredibly Christmas Happy.

 

Just spent two hours alone in a coffee shop and--when I could have been writing the country's next great contemporary american poem by a western woman with children and a convoluted protestant family background--instead, I studied my christmas list. I wrote it. I rewrote it. I made arrows. I crossed things out. I added them back. I crossed them out again. I made a timeline. And an ordered projects list. And a--very short--To Buy list. And then I cross referenced it with my calendar.

I didn't do this because I am a stellar gift giver. I did this because I have no Making Self-Control naturally, and without extreme measures of concentration, self-fortification, goal-setting and values reassertion, I will tackle too many things for too many people. 

And, like I already said, I don't want to. Because for Christmas this year, I'm working hard to give the gift of Mom With Her Personality Intact.  And I'm finding it quite tricky. 

Best of luck to you as you work to hold on to yours.

Comments

[GoodEnoughWoman]

You are SO right about the Pyrex with lids. I love the way you roll.

[deb]

I hear you! My method at the moment is to gradually give up and cross said hand-made item off the list and slink off to the shops to buy something!

[Erin Leigh]

Your commitment to the gift of Mom With Her Personality Intact is inspiring me. Christmas is coming and I'm starting to get hives. I need to spend some tlc with my list so I can just breathe... ugh. best of luck to everyone...

[puttermeister]

Wish somebody had given us Pyrex with lids. But we got two huge woks and some really awesome silver heart embossed frames and crystal glasses we use ALL THE TIME instead.

Your Christmas Combat Strategy Plan code-named "Operation Coffee Shop" makes me want to see the diagrams. I'm pretty sure they're very impressive pieces of art at this point.