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I had a wonderful Christmas with family. That’s obviously the most important part of the holiday, but since that doesn’t translate well into a blog post, I’m going to brag about my gifts instead.

I wanted to show off a couple of gifts in particular, because they were handmade:

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My father made CD cases like this one for me and my three siblings.

Go Preds!

My sister-in-law in California knitted hats and scarves for several of us, tied in with one of that person’s favorite sports teams — in my case, you will note the exact colors of the Nashville Predators. I got a Predators collector pin to wear with this as well.

I also got some great clothes, and several great books — an autobiography of movie director Preston Sturges, a Food Network Kitchens cookbook and a book which I didn’t even know existed by Steve Martin about his days as a standup comic and variety performer, from Disneyland to “Saturday Night Live.”

  • http://happyfamilyathome.blogspot.com/ Jennifer

    Your sis-in-law is one smart cookie…I can’t knit at all…and I’ve tried! It sounds like you had a great Christmas, and I’m glad…you deserve it! :)

  • http://happyfamilyathome.blogspot.com/ Jennifer

    Your sis-in-law is one smart cookie…I can’t knit at all…and I’ve tried! It sounds like you had a great Christmas, and I’m glad…you deserve it! :)

  • http://www.achairandtwoapples.com kcwc

    I’m the SIL — I tried for years and years to learn to knit. I’m a lefty, and I seemed to encounter only right-handed knitters. Really good knitters go so fast that it’s hard for them to slow down and show others how to do it. The closest I came was the year I was in Germany, and I got a book on knitting written in German. I made some headway knitting in German. When I finally did learn to knit– last year, from a lady at church — I learned Continental style, which is more ambidexterous than the English style more common in America, and is in fact the way I was learning from the German book.
    There’s hope yet!

  • http://www.achairandtwoapples.com kcwc

    I’m the SIL — I tried for years and years to learn to knit. I’m a lefty, and I seemed to encounter only right-handed knitters. Really good knitters go so fast that it’s hard for them to slow down and show others how to do it. The closest I came was the year I was in Germany, and I got a book on knitting written in German. I made some headway knitting in German. When I finally did learn to knit– last year, from a lady at church — I learned Continental style, which is more ambidexterous than the English style more common in America, and is in fact the way I was learning from the German book.
    There’s hope yet!

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