December 2018 recap...

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...a lot of baking and reading, a little crafting, and not enough vacation.

Finished:
  1. 12/22 Christmas Baking
    1. Fruitcakes: 18 mini-loaves
    2. Pumpkin bread: 10 mini-loaves
    3. Cookies: 694
    4. Biscotti: 333
    5. Amaretto Nuts: 3 lbs
    6. Grand Marnier Nuts: 3 lbs.
    7. Chile-Lime Nuts: 3 lbs
    8. Chocolate Bark: 6 lbs
    9. Macadamia-Lime Fudge: 1 lb
  2. 12/26 Charred Teal Shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
  3. Books:
    1. Hunt for Magic, Linsey Hall
    2. Cottage by the Sea, Debbie Macomber
    3. When We Found Home, Susan Mallery
    4. Midnight Exposure, Melinda Leigh
    5. The Identicals, Elin Hilderbrand
    6. What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
    7. Twisted Truth, Melinda Leigh
    8. After Anna, Lisa Scottoline 
    9. Feared, Lisa Scottoline
    10. Christmas Cake Murder, Joanne Fluke
    11. Hour of Need, Melinda Leigh
    12. One Perfect Lie, Lisa Scottoline
    13. Minutes to Kill, Melinda Leigh
    14. Seconds to Live, Melinda Leigh
Started:
  • 12/29 Seaside Dreams quilt, formerly Sand and Sea (quilting)
Queued
  • Renaissance Mermaid (cross stitch)
  • Shimmering Advancing Point Twill Wrap (weaving)
Works In Progress:
  1. Baroque Hat (knitting) [Ravelry] 
  2. Finishing work for some old crewel pictures (sewing) 
  3. Look Through My Window quilt for me (quilting)
  4. Mother of Dragons shawl (knitting) [Ravelry] 
  5. St. Charles (needlepoint)
  6. Valley of the Heart's Delight sampler design (cross stitch)
UFOs/Hibernation:
  1. Be My Baby for My Baby (knitting) [Ravelry]
  2. Bear Paw pottery (needlepoint)
  3. Canto de Sirena shawl (knitting) [Ravelry]
  4. Peacock Majesty by Just Nan (cross stitch)
  5. Tucson Twilight (needlepoint)

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