On December Twenty-FOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUR . . .

Happy Christmas everybody.

(PS: Hope the Incarnation brings you this much (or more?) joy)

guess who’s back . . .

as with last year, I knew it was truly Christmas when these guys greeted me in the shop this Saturday morning.
 

 

 
Even though they are quite handsome and organic, being entirely handmade out of natural materials, these Nutcrackers seem to be in a perpetual state of panic. I have to speak soothing words to them regularly, or they begin to gnaw [...]

We’ll make it!

So exams will be hard, and this week might be a bit difficult, but we’ll come out on the other side.
Just like this guy:
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CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS IS COMING SOON!
(thanks to Drew T. Belz for the linkage)

Look again

Winter is now slowly swallowing Autumn up. Most of the trees have shrugged off all their color. Its a good thing—I think we might all just rupture if we had it like that for too long. There are certain glories I think humans can only have in doses.
 But glory remains, even though the color has not. [...]

A Little Little Surprise

We’re always looking for friends here at the little Burrow. This week we made a new one.
I would like to cordially introduce you to:

Mr. Little Little Nutkin, Nutkin John Marchsquirrell
 
Little Little Nutkin (as he allows only Lisa and I and selective relatives to call him . . . he would not appreciate strangers being this liberal with [...]