Litsy

'Tis the Season: Creative Christmas Decorating | Cowles Creative Publishing

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Today‘s haiku is inspired by the fact that it‘s December 1st & 75 degrees F. here. While I‘m not complaining (too much), sometimes it‘s hard to dredge up seasonal spirit in a place with no clear seasons. Seeing palms & other trees wrapped with lights helps make me feel more in the holiday spirit.

‘Tis the Season

Season‘s gentle pull
Fades beneath warm island nights
Trees dressed in lights help

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TheBookHippie Oh pretty!!! 2d

JenlovesJT47 Beautiful! Same here, it was 74 today, 80 yesterday. Which for Florida is not bad but it doesn‘t exactly scream wintertime! 😆♥️ 2d

IriDas I‘ve felt the same since moving to SoCal from Montana 35 years ago. Not a complaint, but, yeah, it‘s hard to keep track of the seasons. 😂 2d

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AnnCrystal Beautiful Mele Kalikimak 👏🏼🐝🤩💚🌴🤍🌴❤️🐝💝. 1d

Amiable My son said the same when he was stationed near San Diego for flight school in the Marines. He hated not having seasons. His buddies would make fun of him because he insisted on wearing flannel shirts from Nov-Feb even though it was too warm for them. Because that when we wear flannel in New England. 😄 1d

lil1inblue 💓 💓 💓 1d

dabbe I so feel this! Signed, Still Sweating in Phoenix. 🩵☃️🩶 22h

DebinHawaii @Amiable I‘m wearing my plaid light flannel shirt in solidarity today! 😉🩶🖤🤍 20h

DebinHawaii @TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal Thank you! ❤️🌴💚 20h

DebinHawaii @JenlovesJT47 @IriDas @dabbe You all know that sweaty in December, I just want some seasons feeling! 😉😅😂 (edited) 20h

DebinHawaii @lil1inblue 💚🌴❤️ 20h

Amiable @DebinHawaii 🙌🏼 I‘m in my fleece season over here! It‘s sleeting and icy so I‘m wrapped up like a fleecy burrito. 😄 (edited) 19h

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BarkingMadRead

I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas: Gifts, Decorations, and Recipes that Use Less and Mean More | Anna Getty

My #jolabokaflodswap is going out in tomorrow‘s mail @MaleficentBookDragon

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Littlewolf1

Holidays: Recipes, Gifts and Decorations, Thanksgiving & Christmas | Martha Stewart

Wait wait wait… it‘s December? Wow, where did this year go? November was not the month full of reads I had hoped it would be, but it is what it is. Im am looking forward to some holiday reads and some holiday time off. Anyways, here is my #BookSpinBingo list for December. Happy Reading everyone.

TheAromaofBooks, Roary47

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2d

AmyG His year flew by. 2d

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thebacklistbook

Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation | Maggie Shannon

The scarf for my mom is almost done. just over 40 inches now. Aiming for 60 total. #litsycrafters #craftersoflitsy #crafting

BookishMarginalia 💪🏻👏🏼 3d

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thebacklistbook

Crafting Calm: Projects and Practices for Creativity and Contemplation | Maggie Shannon

Getting long now, 24 inches. #crafting #craftersoflitsy

dabbe 💜🩵💜 2w

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ncsufoxes

Holidays: Recipes, Gifts and Decorations, Thanksgiving & Christmas | Martha Stewart

#wdncw when we say bring on the season of watching The Holiday where Jude Law wears glasses, is a book editor & his bookshelves are full of interesting books. I‘m ready for some good holiday movies.

dabbe

Deblovestoread My favorite ❤️ 3w

mcctrish Jude Law season is a go 3w

Aims42 Muppet Christmas Carol is my go-to holiday movie 🥰 #NoCheesesForUsMeeses 🧀🐭💚❤️ 3w

dabbe OMG. He is so damn sexy in this movie!!! 🤩😍🤩 3w

AnnCrystal 🤩🎬💝. 3w

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Robotswithpersonality

Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman | Peter Korn

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A book about making things with the latest things I made. ☺️ Having Canadian Thanksgiving before Halloween makes it really easy to go into Xmas mode in November. 🤷🏼‍♂️Tricky to summarize for the purposes of assessment. The subtitle 'The Education of a Craftsman' helps in that regard, to pair up the strong threads of memoir with the more philosophical and didactic passages that might otherwise fit better on their own in a treatise or manual. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Korn, for the most part chronologically, follows milestones in not just his development of a certain skill level as a craftsman, but his growing understanding of what it is to be a maker with a tangible craft, how that can lead to a fulfilling life, how a life fully involved in a community, in earning a living, in teaching, can involve craft, specifically (wood) furniture. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? It's engaging to see his ideas about craft and the world evolve, to manage the transition of isolation and struggle to a shift for the purposes of connection as much as financial stability or clear direction.
While his delving into the more spiritual and even psychological didn't always find me following along with all points made, I was on occasion startled by the quality of the writing, an evocative or relatable turn of phrase, and how 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? concisely emotionally impactful his brief forays into his bouts with Hodgkins disease (cancer) were.
I think this book has a lot more value for being written by a man in his late fifties, humbled and enlightened by a variety of experiences, which on the other hand makes it that much more quietly sad that he seems to consistently acknowledge his father's reservations about his chosen work throughout the decades. 3w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? There are passages in here that are empowering, offer camaraderie to the fellow maker in exploring the depth of rewards gained by engaging in craft, but there are also the regular recognition of how the individual was helped, got lucky, rose and fell in regard and, as time marches on, and a multitude of fulfilling options around running a crafts school appear, finds themselves grateful to be part of a larger organism, with less material 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? crafting as part of the day or year.
The book recognizes the importance of craft beyond fine art being elevated in recent decades, recognizes what it has to offer to many people who experience it first, second or third hand, and while there are intriguing even esoteric explorations of the benefits and thought surrounding it, it doesn't canonize craft. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 Korn appears to be just spiritual enough that 'an even-handed approach' might be too grounded a phrase to use, but insofar as he regularly returns from the lofty heights of the mind, of writing and language and philosophy, to the tangibility of materials and other earthly concerns, I think anyone who has a personal or professional interest in crafting could find something worthwhile.
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dabbe 🤩😍🤩 3w

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