Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on}

The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with, too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture or two and share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.

So with all my free time (ha!)  I thought it would be a good idea to knit the girls some Bulles for Christmas. What in the world was I thinking?! Nothing like an incredibly close deadline to make me knit at lightning speed!

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Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on}

Saint Lucia's light (on an incredibly dark day)

World's most patient cat (Simpkin) dressed in one of C's old Christmas dresses Sweet star boy painting made by Amber at Hearth Magic. It's now hanging over L's bed. Saint Lucia made by Naturally Catholic Knit Saint Lucia and star boy we received in the Scandinavian swap. It was so very dark all day I had to get creative outside to manage a photograph.

Today was not only the third Sunday of Advent but also the feast of Saint Lucia and Little L's namesake day. All three of my children were so excited they could not fall asleep last night and then they awoke before dawn for their Saint Lucia procession in the early morning darkness. It was a beautiful procession, but unfortunately I stayed up too late the night before as well (Christmas knitting) and was far too sleepy to remember to grab my camera. Actually, I didn't get any photographs of all three of my children dressed in their Saint Lucia outfits at all this year. Ack! Nor did I get any photographs of Little L on his special day. I think it falling on a busy Sunday (Mass and pageant practice) completely threw me off. Did I mention we were all exhausted?! One of my children ended up spending some one on one time with Daddy at his office the rest of the day to help stop some cranky quarrelling that was going on. One on one time always makes everything better!

Little L and I made our Lussekatters the day before while the girls were out caroling with their AHG group. We made quite a few extras to bring to Father Victor at Mass as well as for the girls to bring to their Advent party with AHG on Monday. We used this recipe again this year but I made quite a huge mistake. I somehow managed to grab last year's near empty bottle of saffron out of the pantry instead of the full, brand new bottle I had. Our buns ended up barely having the distinct saffron taste, smell and color. I blame it on preggo brain. I ended up coming up with a solution of making a glaze with saffron and powdered sugar to brush the buns with. It worked well enough for me to feel okay with still giving them out as we had planned. Surprisingly my children actually ate more of them this year than usual. Maybe it was due to the sugar content. Hehe.

Our day was incredibly dark and scattered with snow flurries here and there but our hearts were full of light and we let it shine, let it shine, let it shine! Happy Saint Lucia day!


Wait! I did manage to get one photo of L after all...
He snuck in this photo of C and Simpkin.

Saint Lucia's light (on an incredibly dark day)