9 this week.

This has been kind of an unusual week for me.  My husband is at our camp for the week deer hunting, so I've been left to hold down the fort at home.  My sister Dani is home from school for a little while, so I've been spending a lot of time with my family.  Not much sewing has been done, but I've been doing other fun things like making Christmas decorations with two of my best girlfriends, cooking, and trying to remember how to knit.

I made 5 little trees on Saturday (not the bottle brush trees in the back!), and I really like how they turned out.

I made this little plaid tree by wrapping strips of plaid fabric around a styrofoam cone.  The gray tree was made using paper for the cone and just wrapping gray yarn around it.

The white tree was paper wrapped in burlap fabric, the green and white one is crochet yarn that looks like baker's twine around styrofoam, and the little gray one is crochet thread wrapped around paper.

After a day of holiday crafting, my friend Kate and I enjoyed some wine and cheese...

 roasted some veggies...

 and made bowtie pasta with chicken, cherry tomatoes, and pesto cream sauce for dinner.

 Last night my mom and sisters made homemade pizza with spinach, artichokes, olives and tomatoes.

I've been practicing my knitting with this simple scarf, but I really want to make one of these!

My little sisters are kind of crazy, as proven by this picture.

 Here we are all together.  I love these two girls so much!

It's been a pretty good week so far!