Advent, Day 23

How is it that tomorrow will be Christmas Eve already? Where has all the time gone? It's crazy!

At least I used this morning well. The sun showed itself for a while, so I had enough light to do some crafting. My story book is taking shape nicely. I've done the unpleasant part today, i.e. creating the cover and the whole binding system. That one is tricky, seeing how much I suck at measuring, counting and drawing straight lines. But it is done now, and I can go on to the pleasant part: to making the individual pages, which promises to be fun. I've changed the design a bit, adding another page; I think it will work better that way.

I cooked lunch for two days: Mary Berry's chicken pasta bake. That means I won't have to cook tomorrow at all, since Mum's volunteered to make the apple soup, so I'll have the time to arrange my gigantic cookie display. I promise pictures of that.*g*

I talked on the phone to Evie, Erna and Alex; it was very pleasant. Mum also had a call from a former boss of her, so we had real social life today. ;)

And that was it, basically. Christmas preparations are rather low-key in our house anyway, and most of it (baking and decorating) is already done, so we can hope for a peaceful, quiet Christmas Eve - just the way we like it.

My Good Thing of the day:
Getting a lovely Christmas card from adafrog. Thank you, my friend!