I finally have good news on the job front!! My new company reconciled things with the hotel enough to get me a part time position (as opposed to full time). This does mean I have to reapply as a formality, but I'll be called once the job is posted so I can immediately apply and get a schedule and things. I think I can still get benefits under part time (one of my interviewers mentioned this), so I'm hopeful and gonna go with it. I'm so happy to be almost working again!
Christmas Craftiness
Now that the holidays are over, I can finally show what I made for everyone! Well, all except three people. I still have to mail them their gifts. Without further ado, here we go! I had been holding onto these beads for my mother for nearly three years, trying to find complimentary ones so I could make her this. It's in her colors and goes with some of her pretty new clothes. I hope she feels as pretty as I know she is when she wears them. I made the matching cowl and hat for my sister, the lovely girl you see modeling them both in the last shot. I had too much fun giggling as I made the hat, and then improvised a matching design for the cowl. The button was the most adorable thing and I loved how multi-colored it was, without being too matchy matchy. This was actually the last one I completed, for Camilla. I made her a cowl out of a skein of that gorgeous but kinda slubby homespun yarn I got at an SCA event, and then the leftovers of the yarn from my first beret. She loves ...
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