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My son Jonathan and 3 kids came to visit the day after Christmas. Jonathan's birthday was the 27th so we had birthday cake. They have gone back to N. C. and now I suppose we must take down the Christmas decorations. I really enjoyed having the decorations this year. Everything looked so bright and cheerful. I have not had much time for my hobbies but i have managed just a little spinning and a few rows of knitting. I am working on the beaded smoke ring by Jackie E-S.

Merry Christmas

Riley with his new Christmas toy. He loves toys that squeak and closely guards them. He almost always has at least one with him.

It is cold and raining today, looks like winter for sure. But you never know, it may be 80 degrees tomorrow. The floors have little muddy footprints all over since I did not clean Riley's feet when he came back in. Time to get out the mop.

We had Christmas dinner with mother at Riverwood and it was very nice. I can get used to not cooking.

John C, Campbell Folk School again

We spent a great week at the folk school again. These pictures are from the Friday afternoon showing of the work done by all the classes during the week. The bottom picture is of all four of the student's work from our class. Mine is on bottom left. It is the beginnings of a beaded lace scarf. There is a beaded snowflake motif at the bottom which does not show, the camera lights did not pick it up. The cutch colored wool is the beginning of a sock with a beaded cuff. The blue Christmas ball has a hand knit lace circle with beading added. The top picture is just my work so you can see it a little better. Jackie ES taught this class and she was a wonderful teacher. She is creative, patient, helpful and lots of fun. She sells her patterns wholesale so I ordered 8 of them when I got home and have already gotten them from Elann. They are beautiful patterns and very well written and it does not take forever to make something. The folk school itself was its usual delight with programs every night. This time it was Christmas music with a handbell choir on Friday night. They keep you so busy there that there is hardly time to breathe but so much fun. Our class was very compatible. Hi Alice, Jenny, and Rayn. I do enjoy being around people all week who have so much in common.