It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

You might think I'm a bit early for Christmas, but I'm actually just really late. I've been working on these stockings for years now. The yarn I knit them out of is something I got in Argentina right before I went home. It's sentimental to me, so I wanted these to be perfect. The years included a lot of planning and searching for materials rather than actual work.

They're FINALLY done!

I must admit the photos do not do them justice. The yarn is 100% silk so it just shines in the light and glides through your fingers. They're lined with dupioni silk, hand embroidered (with designs that I created on my computer then used as patterns) and mine has these Japanese glass beads that catch the light just right. Totally over kill, I know- but I had so much fun finding just the right stuff. I'm so excited to have a reason to buy stocking stuffers this year!

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

I've really enjoyed watching all the short videos that have come up on LDS.org lately. This one has become a fast favorite of mine. Maybe because it presents several topics that have been main studying points for me the past few months. Mostly though, I think it's the beauty of the language used. James E. Faust is able to capture a month of my studies into one beautifully worded sentence. It is more like poetry than an address. Here are a few of my favorite lines-

"You will not be able to travel through life on borrowed light"

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

"This... requires patience in a world that requires instant gratification... (it)requires you to walk by faith in a world governed by sight."

Happy End of Summer

Our windows keep surprising me. Just last week I looked out and saw Mt. Timp covered in fiery red. And today I spotted our own tree turning yellow. I guess it's time to say goodbye to Summer for the next while.

Over the labor day weekend we had a little ice cream party with my friend Steph. She's one of the only people in the world who understands my deep interest in things like cakelet pans and popover recipes and our evening was planned around that fact. We provided the homemade vanilla bean frozen custard (I'm just loving that Costco now sells vanilla beans- I could put them in just about anything) and she made homemade fudge sauce and the waffle cones. (that's right- she has her very own waffle cone maker. I know. She's pretty much the coolest person ever.) Yum yum yum. It made quite the fair well party for the long summer days.