Happy December!

 

Let's see what's on the camera roll:

Balinese Elephant has a bunch of dog hair, lol:

Dinosaurs has more leaves:

Closet UFO's has the closet started:

Flutter of Butterflies has all the butterflies started:

Cheese Sampler has some cheeses:

and Marmalade has the bottom squares going:

                                        

My reading for the month was mostly finishing up Halloweeny reading from last month, plus a totally 70's book that popped out of my storage unit - I don't even remember if it was auntie's or mine, but to the little free library it went:

Had my annual jaunt up north to work on the Rose Parade.  They have a whole different systemn for volunteers this year so the float barn was pretty empty and a little sad, but the work goes on and I did have a pleasant time with the tiny group of us that were there.  The float we were working on was San Francisco, if you squint you can see the row houses in the back, also known as the "Painted Ladies."

The mission for the day was cutting the petals of statice - this is always one of the first jobs because they want the petals to dry. Rose Parade floats are required to be completely covered with plants, so the petals are used like blue paint; these will be on one of the houses. The extra petals will be part of a US flag for another float.

If I stand on tiptoe I can see the back of the storage unit so yay me! DH is ready to tell me to just keep it, haha, he's definitely sick of endless boxes of stuff coming through the house!