Entries from November 2008

November 17, 2008

Festival of Trees Update

The tree is decorated and looks great! I can’t wait for you all to see it.
I picked up a bag of ornaments made by members of the Memphis Knitting Guild.  There were tiny mittens and hats 

and a variety of other ornaments including a little sock and beaded tree.

A box of 50 ornaments arrived at [...]

November 14, 2008

New ornaments

Yarn scrap bags all over town must be emptying out fast. Just look at these new ornaments we picked up this week!
April rounded up some Christmas balls (har har)

Keenon made these adorable caps

Susie ventured to Midtown from waaay out east to deliver pretty sock yarn balls

I picked some felted pears

And Christiana whipped out a [...]

November 10, 2008

Ornament Update

I am happy to report that our ornament situation is improving daily.  Several people jumped right in and we have new ornaments with more expected very shortly.  I will begin decorating the tree on Thursday, November 14th so be sure to get your ornaments to me this week.
Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day to [...]

November 4, 2008

Get Your Mitzvah On!

I spent Sunday morning at Temple Israel’s Mitzvah Day. Mitzvah is a word used in Judaism to refer to the 613 commandments given in the Torah and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later for a total of 620. The term mitzvah has also come to express any act of human kindness.
 
The place was a beehive [...]