Advent Calendar Blog Hop: Day 18!

Mele Kalikimaka, hoppers from around the blogosphere!

Here we are on day 18 of Jo's Advent Calendar Blog Hop and Christmas is now ONE WEEK AWAY. /panic!  I hope you're all squared away because I for sure am not!  Every year, it's "I'm gonna do things so timely this year!"... and then here we are, a week away, panicking.  :)  Anyway, I found this cute (freebie!) pattern here along with all 23 other days in case you needed to add more patterns to your stash~

A short introduction: I am Rosey, owned by two derpy cats and owner of one derpy husband all of which I love very much.  I am... excitable.  And I maybe talk too much.  I like hoarding stitching cutesy and possibly nerdy/geeky/dorky patterns although I am very, verrry slow at producing finishes.  Not sure I could pick a favorite designer as that seems to change with the wind, but I'm partial to browsing SODA pattern mall, Alessandra Adelaide swirly patterns, Frosted Pumpkin, Sprite Stitch, and Stoney Creek designs.  Someday!  Also, I've just bounced into the wild world of crochet because I need to hoard admire even more cutesy patterns.

Santa Dave

Firstly, per Blog Hop Rules™ here is my little Christmas piece, stitched up in 2012! Meet Santa Dave, so named because he looks very much like a friend!  He's a jumping jack ornament gifted to my mother who likes jumping jack ornaments... a lot.  I chose this piece because I am proud of it, rarrrr!  It was by far the most fiddly stitch I've ever done with all the strange assembling and whatnot.  The picture makes him look sorta tiny; he wound up being around 5-6" tall not including pull cord.  I would totally wear his coat.  And hat.  And because I'm always cold, everything else he's got on.

We were asked to give a ramble about our bestest gift ever. This was a difficult for me as I grew up a bit poor and learned to appreciate any gift but the one that stands out the most for me is my little telescope. Though it wasn't a Big & Fancy High-Powered one, I knew how much my mother had to save to get it at all and let me tell you my level of speechlessness surpassed anything ever. The Great Motor-Mouth was speechless. I also hated the very sun for being out all day, how dare it! It needed to set Right. Now!  After I read every last ounce of instructions a million times over all day, assembled it, and that night I put it outside to acclimate (lenses will fog up so it can't be used immediately). I cast it around looking at various fuzzy blobs (remember, not a high-powered scope) and then eyeballed a bright star. Wait, this star is still fuzzy, that can't be right. SATURN O MY GOODNESS I WAS LOOKING AT SATURN. It had rings! I could see another planet! With rings! From my yard! A planet! I teleported back in the house and screamed probably incomprehensible babble at my mom and teleported back outside.  A planet!!

So, I suppose it would win as my Best Ever Present.  I still have it and still take it out on occasion because it's good to remember just how very tiny we are. And despite it being so close to home, Saturn is still my favorite sky object.  :)

Thanks to new and old friends popping in and to Jo for hosting this fun hop~ Be sure to check in tomorrow at Shebafudge for magical door 19.  I am going to skedaddle on out of here to finish baking cookies that get shipped seemingly everywhere in a perfectly timely manner.  :D